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

Stern Report

Stirling, Ian

storm surges

Straits of Hormuz

Streletskiy, Dmitry

Sub-Saharan Africa

Sudan

Suez Canal

sugarcane ethanol

sulfur dioxide

super-regions

surface water

Swaziland

Sweden: and aboriginal peoples; and the Arctic Council; and Arctic resources; and Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS); culture of; and demographic trends; and human settlement patterns; and melting permafrost; and natural resource consumption; and the “New North,” and NORC collaborations; and North Pole expeditions; and nuclear power; and territorial boundaries; and UNCLOS; and winter roads

synthetic natural gas (SNG)

Syria

Taiwan

Tajikistan

technology: arctic sea ice mapping; and ethanol production; as global force; and global warming; and hydrogen fuel cells; and nuclear power; and satellites; and smart power grids; and solar power; and tar sand extraction; and urbanization; and water resources; and wind power

terrorism

Thailand

Thatcher, Margaret

thermal expansion of water

thermohaline circulation

Thompson, Lonnie

Three Mile Island

Tibet

Tibetan Plateau

tidal power

Tigris-Euphrates River system

Tolko Industries

trade

Trans-Siberian Railroad

transboundary rivers

transmission of power

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

Tromso, Norway

tropical storms

troposphere

Truman, Harry

tundra. See also permafrost

Tunisia

Turkey

Turkmenistan

Twilight in the Desert: The Coming Saudi Oil Shock and the World Economy (Simmons)

Udall, Stewart

Ukraine

UN Commission for the Limits of the Continental Shelf (CLCS)

UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS)

UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)

UN Population Division

UN Security Council

United Arab Emirates

United Kingdom. See also Britain

United Nations

United States: and aboriginal peoples; aging population of; and the Arctic Council; and Arctic islands; and Arctic policy; and Arctic resources; and Arctic transportation routes; and Canadian relations; and coal resources; and concentrated solar thermal (CSP) power; and demographic trends; and economic growth models; and ethanol production; and global warming; and globalization; immigration policy of; and natural gas resources; and the “New North,” and NORCs; and North Pole expeditions; and nuclear power; and power transmission systems; and sea levels; and shifting economic power; and the Siberian Curse; and UNCLOS; and water resources; and wind power

urbanization: and aging populations; and the Arctic; and climate change; and economic growth; and energy consumption; pace of; and prospects for NORCs; and resource supplies; and sea levels; and shifting economic power; and the “twenty-first century” city; and water resources

U.S. Army

U.S. Central Intelligence Agency

U.S. Climate Change Action Partnership

U.S. Department of Defense

U.S. Department of Energy

U.S. Department of State

U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Committee

U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)

U.S. Minerals and Management Service

U.S. National Intelligence Council

U.S. National Science Foundation

Uzbekistan

Vancouver, British Colombia

Varlomov, Alexei

Venezuela

Verkhoyansk, Russia

Vietnam

Vikings

volcanoes

Volta River

Vorosmarty, Charlie

Walmart

warfare

Washington Consensus

Water Follies (Glennon)

water resources: and agriculture; aquifers; and climate change; crises related to; and drought; and energy consumption; export projects; and foreign policy; and global water stress; and groundwater pumping; and