The World in 2050: Four Forces Shaping Civilization's Northern Future (51 page)

Damansky Island

Damour, Jdimytai

dams

Darwin, Charles

Davydov, M. M.

Dawson Creek, British Columbia

De Niro, Robert

Dead Pool
(Lawrence)

death rates

deltas

Democratic Republic of the Congo

demography: and aboriginal populations; and aging populations; and Alaska; and biofuels; and climate distribution; connection to other global forces; and declining populations; and the Demographic Transition; as global force; and global warming; and Gulags; and human settlement patterns; and immigration; and inertia of global forces; and life expectancy; measurement types; and momentum of population trends; and the “New North,” and NORCs; and population control policies; population densities and trajectories; and resource consumption; and urbanization; and water resources; and World War II,

Dene people

Deng Xiaoping

Denmark: and aboriginal peoples; and the Arctic Council; and Arctic resources; and demographic trends; and immigration policy; and the “New North,” and UNCLOS; and wind power

deserts

developing world

Diamond, Jared

diamond mining

disease

drought

Duke Energy

Dupont

East Asia Summit

ecological footprint

economics: and aging populations; and demography; and development policies; and economic discounting; and NORCs; shifting economic power; and super-regions; and urbanization; and water resources

Economist Intelligence Unit

Egypt

Ehrlich, Paul

El Niño

elderly dependency ratio

electric vehicles

endangered species

energy : and water consumption

Energy Independence and Security Act

Engels, Friedrich

environmental activism

Equatorial Guinea

ERTS satellite

An Essay on the Principle of Population
(Malthus)

Estonia

ethanol

Ethiopia

Eurasia

Europe.
See also specific countries
: and aboriginal peoples; and aging populations; and agriculture; and climate change; and crop yields; and demographic trends; European Community; European Space Agency; European Union; and global warming; and urbanization; and water resources

exclusive economic zones (EEZs)

extinction of species

Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)

fertility rates

Finland: and aboriginal peoples; and the Arctic Council; and Arctic resources; and demographic trends; economy of; and human settlement patterns; and immigration policy; and the “New North,” and NORC collaborations; and territorial boundaries; and UNCLOS; and winter roads

Finnmark Act

fisheries

flex-fuel vehicles

flooding

Florida

food supplies.
See also
agriculture

Ford, Gerald

Foreign Affairs

Fort McMurray, Alberta

Fortier, Louis

fossil fuels.
See also specific fuel types

Fourier, Joseph

France

Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria

free trade

Frey, Karen

Friedman, Thomas

fuel-cell cars

fur trade

FutureGen

Gaddy, Clifford

Gandy, Matthew

Gautier, Catherine

Gautier, Don

Gaza

General Agreement of Tariffs and Trade (GATT)

General Motors Corporation

genetics

Geographic Information System (GIS)

geography

geology

George III,

geothermal power

Germany: and aging populations; and demographic trends; and economic growth models; and immigration; and North Pole expeditions; and shifting economic power; and water resources; and wind power

Ghawar oil field

Ghesquiere, Henri

Glacier National Park

glaciers: and global warming; and lakes; and permafrost; and sea levels; and water resources

Gleick, Peter

Glen Canyon Dam

Glennon, Robert

global warming.
See
climate change

globalization: and Arctic transportation; and Canadian oil; connection to other global forces; described; and economic ties; and global institutions; and the high Arctic; and hydrology; and immigration policy; and inertia of global forces; and market economics; and NORC collaborations; and peace and freedom measures; and population trends; and the rule of law; and shifting economic power; and “super regions,” and urbanization

Goldman Sachs

Goodall, Chris

Goodstein, David

Google, Inc.

Gorbachev, Mikhail

Grameen Bank

Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE)

Great Lakes

The Great Lakes Water Wars
(Annin)

Great Recycling and Northern Development (GRAND) Canal

Green, Pamela

greenhouse gases: anthropogenic; and biofuels; and climate modeling; and coal; and global warming; and melting permafrost; and nuclear power; and prospects for NORCs; and sulfur dioxide; and water vapor

Greenland: and aboriginal peoples; and Arctic politics; and climate research; economy of; and the Endangered Species Act; and glaciers/ice sheets; and global warming; and Home Rule; and independence; and the “New North,”

Greenland Ice Sheet

grizzly bears

groundwater

Gulags

Gulf of Alaska

Gulf Stream

Hadley Cell circulation

Haiti

Hans Island

Harper, Stephen

Harvard Business Review

Hayflick, Leonard

High Aswan Dam

high-impact events

High Level, Alberta

high-voltage direct-current (HVDC) power transmission

Hill, Fiona

Hirsch, Bob

Hitler, Adolf

HIV/AIDS

Hockey Night in Canada

Hoefer, Tom

Hong Kong

Hoover Dam

Hudson Bay

Hudson Bay Express

Huebert, Rob

Hurricane Ike

Hurricane Katrina

hurricane vulnerability

hybrid cars

hybridization of species

hydrocarbon fuels.
See also
coal; natural gas; oil

hydroelectric power

hydrogen fuel

hydrology

ice-albedo feedback

Ice Road Truckers

ice sheets

icebergs

icebreakers

Iceland: and aboriginal demographics; and the Arctic Council; and Arctic resources; and demographic trends; and human settlement patterns; and immigration policy; and the “New North,” and NORC collaborations; and UNCLOS

IKEA

Ilulissat Declaration

immigration; and aging populations; and the Arctic workforce; and labor forces; and prospects for NORCs; and the United States; and xenophobia

Imperial Valley

India: and aging populations; and coal resources; and economic growth models; and human settlement patterns; and natural gas resources; and shifting economic power; and urbanization; and water resources; and wind power

Indonesia

Indus River

industrialization

inertia of global forces

information technology

insurance industry

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD)

International Energy Agency

International Geophysical Year

International Labour Organization Convention

International Maritime Organization (IMO)

International Monetary Fund (IMF)

International Polar Year

Interpol

Intertropical Convergence Zone

Inuit people

Iqaluit, Nunavut Territory

Iran

Iraq

Ireland

Iskut River

Israel

Italy

James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement

James Bay Project

Jane’s Intelligence Review

Japan: and aging populations; and demographic trends; and economic growth models; and Far East Russia; and global warming; and nuclear power; and shifting economic power; and UNCLOS; and water resources; and wind power

Japan Center for Economic Research

Jevons, W. Stanley

Johansen, Lars-Emil

Jordan

Ka-band radar interferometer (KaRIn)

Kalahari Desert

Kamchatka

Karelian people

Kazakhstan

Keeling, Charles

Keeling, Ralph

Keflavik, Iceland

Kenya

Keskitalo, Aili

Keynes, John Maynard

Kiedis, Anthony

Kierans, Tom

Klare, Michael

Kola Peninsula

Korea

Kuptana, Roger

Kuwait

Kyoto Protocol

Kyrgyzstan

La Niña

La Plata basin

Lagos, Nigeria

Lake Maracaibo basin

Lake Mead

Lake Oroville

Lake Powell

Lammers, Richard

land subsidence

Landsat

Lapland

Laporte, Pierre

Laurentide ice sheet

Lawrence, David

Lebanon

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

Lesotho

Lettenmaier, Dennis

Libya

liquefied natural gas (LNG)

Lisbon, Portugal

Little Mosque on the Prairie

Lobell, Dave

Lockley, Leana

Lomonosov Ridge

Louisiana Purchase

Luzhkov, Yuri

MacDonald, Glen

MacKay, Peter

Mackenzie Gas Project

Mackenzie River

Mae Khlong River

Malaysia

Malthus, Thomas

Manavgat River

Mao Zedong

marker-assisted breeding

market economics

Marshall, John

Martell, Jim

Marx, Karl

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Mauritania

Mayer, Larry

McCain, John

Medvedev, Dmitry

megacities

megadeltas

Meridional Overturning Current (MOC)

Merkel, Angela

methane

Métis people

Metropolitan Water District

Mexico

Middle East

migration of wildlife

Mikhailova, Tatiana

militarization

Mill, John Stuart

Milly, Chris

mineral depletion rates

mineral rights

Minnesota

Miocene Epoch

modernization

Moldova

Morocco

Mosley-Thompson, Ellen

Mozambique

Mulligan, Kevin

Mumbai, India

Murmansk

National Academy of Sciences

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)

natural gas

natural resources.
See
resource demand

Nature

Nelson, Fritz

Nenets people

neoliberalism

Netherlands

Nevada

“New North,”

New Orleans, Louisiana

Nigeria

Nile River

Nixon, Richard

Nordic countries

North Africa

North America.
See specific countries

North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)

North American Water and Power Alliance (NAWAPA)

North Atlantic Current

North Atlantic Deep Water Formation (NADW)

North Atlantic Ocean

North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

North Korea

North Pole

North Sea

North Slope

Northern Rim Countries (NORCs).
See also specific countries
: and aboriginal demographics; and agriculture; and the Arctic; free trade; and human settlement patterns; and immigration policies; listed; map of; population growth of; prospects for; and the Siberian Curse

Northern Sea Route

Northern Transportation Company Limited

Northern Waters Complex

Northwest Passage

Northwest Staging Route

Northwest Territories

Norway: and aboriginal peoples; and the Arctic Council; and Arctic resources; and Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS); and demographic trends; and human settlement patterns; and immigration policy; and the “New North,” and NORC collaborations; and oil reserves; and power transmission systems; and territorial boundaries; and UNCLOS; and water resources; and winter roads

Novy Urengoy

Noyabr’sk

nuclear power

Nunavut Territory

Obama, Barack

obshchiny

oceanography

Ogallala aquifer

oil: and Arctic resources; embargoes; and the Industrial Revolution; and oil sands; price of; proven reserves; and water resources

Olsen, Moses

OmniTrax Inc.

Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD)

Out of Gas
(Goodstein)

Pacific Decadal Oscillation

Pacific Institute

Pakistan

Panama Canal

Papua New Guinea

Parsons, Ralph M.

Pasqualetti, Martin

Patrushev, Nikolai

Pearce, Fred

permafrost: and carbon storage; and climate change; continuous permafrost; and glaciers; and global warming and lake formation; and load bearing capacity; and U.S. policy

photovoltaics

Pika, Aleksandr

plant biomass

plug-in electric cars

Poland

polar bears

politics: and Arctic resources; and Arctic transportation; and ethanol subsidies; and expert political judgment; and global warming; and human settlement; and inertia of global forces; and the North Pole; and oil supplies

The Population Bomb
(Ehrlich)

population growth.
See
demography;
specific countries

Portugal

Powell, James Lawrence

Primorsky Territory

Prince Edward Island

Pripyat, Ukraine

protectionism

Prudhoe Bay

Putin, Vladimir