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Informationen zum Autor GEOFF HISCOCK has been writing about Asian business for major media outlets for more than thirty years, including time as Sydney bureau chief and Asia Business Editor for CNN.com and as International Business Editor of The Australian . He is the author of four books, including India's Global Wealth Club and India's Store Wars, both published by Wiley. Klappentext Food, water, energy, and metals are the drivers of industrial, economic, and social growth. As the world's population rises and the clamour for higher living standards gets louder, so too the struggle for resource access intensifies. But whether it is water from the Nile, rice from the Mekong Delta, oil from the Middle East, coal from Africa, gas from Russia, rare earths from China, iron ore from the Australian Outback, uranium from Kazakhstan, or shale from North America, these resources, even those we consider "sustainable," are limited and valuable. For centuries, the West has controlled much of the resources flow, but now China, India, Russia, Brazil, Indonesia, Turkey, Iran, and a host of other nations want their share. In Earth Wars: The Battle for Global Resources, journalist and Asian business expert Geoff Hiscock takes an in-depth look at our energy future. He analyzes the new technologies, the key players, escalating tensions, and possible outcomes of the ultimate theme of the twenty-first century: resource ownership. China and India, with their combined population of 2.5 billion people, will be the engines of global growth in the next fifty years, and their drive to expand is already bringing them to the forefront of the supply-demand equation. In Earth Wars, Hiscock surveys the world at large, looking at the interconnections, exploring who has what, how they're using what they have, and what they're doing to protect, expand, or share their bounty. Zusammenfassung A fascinating insight into the global battle for our energy future The global competition for scarce natural resources that pits the West against the super-hot economies of China and India, plus a clutch of other contenders including Russia, Brazil, and Indonesia, has become one of the biggest issues facing the world today. Inhaltsverzeichnis Maps vii Introduction xv Chapter 1 The Four Essentials 1 Food, Water, Energy, Metals Chapter 2 Geographical Flashpoints 19 The Trouble with Lines on a Map Chapter 3 The Key Players 37 Diggers, Drillers, and Dealers Chapter 4 Food and Water 57 Where the Rivers Run Chapter 5 "Going Out" for Energy 73 China and India Stake Their Claims Chapter 6 Old Coal Still Burning Brightly 91 Chapter 7 Going Nuclear in a Post-Fukushima World 105 Chapter 8 New Energy-Clean, Green, and Expensive 123 Chapter 9 Coppery Red, the Colour of Earth's True Love 139 Chapter 10 Finding Steel's Essential Ingredients 155 Chapter 11 U.S. Energy 173 Hail to the Shale Chapter 12 Japan after the Deluge 189 Chapter 13 BRACQK (Brazil, Russia, Australia, Canada, Qatar, Kazakhstan) Is the New BRIC 203 Chapter 14 The Up and Comers 229 Turkey, Iran, Indonesia, Mexico Chapter 15 What Happens Next 243 A Host of Global Opportunities Conclusion 257 A World So Changed Bibliography 263 Acknowledgments 269 About the Author 273 Index 275 ...
List of contents
Introduction
Chapter 1 The Four Essentials
Chapter 2 Geographical Flashpoints
Chapter 3 The Major Players
Chapter 4 Food and Water
Chapter 5 'Going Out' for Energy
Chapter 6 Old Coal Still Burns Brightly
Chapter 7 Going Nuclear - or Not
Chapter 8 New Energy - Clean, Expensive and Intermittent
Chapter 9 Red the Color of Earth's True Love
Chapter 10 Find Steel's Essential Ingredients
Chapter 11 US Energy - Hail to the Shale
Chapter 12 Japan - After the Deluge
Chapter 13 BRACQK is the new BRIC
Chapter 14 Up and Coming TIIM
Chapter 15 What Happens Next?
Bibliography
Index
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'Written in clear, jargon-free language, it tells the global resources story in a fresh and engaging way' (Flybe, December 2012)
