The Real Population Bomb: Megacities, Global Security & the Map of the Future - Couverture rigide

Liotta, P. H.; Miskel, James F.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1597975516 ISBN 13 : 9781597975513

Editeur : Potomac Books Inc, 2012

Synopsis

The Real Population Bomb By 2025, twenty-seven cities will have populations greater than ten million - the common measure by which an urban population constitutes a 'megacity.' This title argues that megacities will become havens for terrorists and criminal networks as well as centers of major environmental depletion. Full description

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Shocking in description and crammed with detail, this book is about where and how geopolitics plays out in the twenty first century. Drawing on the authors' three decades of international field work and seasoned policy analysis, The Real Population Bomb hits like a pile driver. Its essential truths can no longer be ignored: we have never been here before in human history. The choices we make in this next decade will determine the fate of human societies. By 2025, twenty: seven cities will have populations greater than ten million and over six hundred cities will have populations greater than one million. Specific mega cities, intimately connected to globalization, are posing huge security challenges now. Liotta and Miskel focus intensely on effects these massive, undeserved, and under governed cities have on international stability, human security, and environmental degradation, and offer strategies and solutions for mitigating those effects. Their stark, often stunning, portraits of major urban centers in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and South America illuminate how mega city Leviathans are redrawing the map of the future: in ways that affect us all. You may not agree with this book's message. But it will prove difficult to forget.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Potomac Books Inc
• Date d'édition: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1597975516
• ISBN 13: 9781597975513
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 264