The World in 2050: Four Forces Shaping Civilization's Northern Future

Asia. See specific countries

Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC)

Asian Development Bank

Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)

Athabasca Tar Sands

Australia

Azeez, Adulkadir

Azerbaijan

Baffin Island

Baikal-Amur Mainline Railroad

Baku oil fields

Ban Ki-Moon

Bangladesh

Banks Island

Barents Sea

Barlow, Maude

Barnaby, Wendy

Barnett, Tim

Barrow, Alaska

Bartram, Jamie

Bazhenov Shale

Beaufort Sea

Belgium

Bering Sea

Bering Strait

Betancourt, Julio

biodiversity. See also wildlife

biofuels. See also ethanol

biotechnology

birth rates

bitumen

Bodman, Samuel

boreal forests

Borgerson, Scott

Box, Jason

Brakenridge, Bob

Brazil: and aging populations; and concentrated solar thermal (CSP) power; and economic growth models; and power transmission systems; and shifting economic power; and water resources

Bretton Woods Agreement

BRICs. See Brazil; China; India; Russia and the Russian Federation

Britain. See also United Kingdom

Broecker, Wallace

Brown, Gordon

Burgan oil fields

Burke, Marshall

Bush, George H. W.

Bush, George W.

California: and the Louisiana Purchase; and renewable energy; and sea levels; and water resources

Cambodia

Canada: and aboriginal peoples; and the Arctic Council; and Arctic resources; and Arctic shipping; and climate distribution; and crop yields; and demographic trends; and education; and endangered species; and foreign relations; and global warming; and human settlement patterns; and immigration policy; and the Kyoto Protocol; and the “New North,” and North Pole expeditions; and oil sands; and power transmission systems; and the Siberian Curse; and UNCLOS; and water resources; and wind power; and winter roads; and World War II,

canals

Canterell field

Cape Cod, Massachusetts

carbon emissions: and biofuels; and carbon capture technology; and climate change; fertilization effect; and hydrogen fuel cells; and the Kyoto Protocol; and melting permafrost; monitoring levels of; natural cycles of; and oil resources; persistence in atmosphere; and renewable energy resources

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Carson, Rachel

Carter, Jimmy

Caspian Sea

cellulosic ethanol

Central Asia

Central Valley

Chad

Chavez, Hugo

Chernobyl power plant

Chicago Diversion

Chile

Chilingarov, Artur

China: and aging populations; and Arctic resources; and coal resources; and economic growth models; and global warming; and human settlement patterns; and melting permafrost; and natural gas resources; and nuclear power; and population control policies; and power transmission systems; and the Russian Far East; and Russian immigration policy; and shifting economic power; Singapore as model for; unification of; and urbanization; and water resources; and wind power

The Christian Science Monitor

Chu, Steven

Churchill, Manitoba

Churchill, Winston

civil rights movement

“clean coal,”

climate change: and aboriginal peoples; and abrupt-change scenarios; and agriculture; and the Arctic; and climate models; and coal; connection to other global forces; and demographic trends; described; and drought; and electric vehicles; and endangered species; and geophysical impacts; and inertia of global forces; and medieval warming period; and melting ice sheets; and melting permafrost and migration of species; monitoring climate; and national security; and nuclear power; and ocean temperatures; and prospects for NORCs; and risk management; and river runoff; and sea ice; and sea levels; and short-term fluctuations; and snowpack and glaciers; SRES scenarios; and water resources; and winter roads

Clinton, Bill

Clinton, Hillary Rodham

coal

Cohen, Joel E.

Cold War

Collapse (Diamond)

Colombia

Colorado River