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Article: The Polar Regions: A Political Geography.(Brief Article)
- Article from:
- The Geographical Journal
- Article date:
- November 1, 1997
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By Sanjay Chaturvedi. Chichester: John Wiley and Sons, 1996, 306 pp. 35.00 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0 471 94898 5
Interest in the polar regions has been stimulated by public awareness of the significant environmental problems associated with human activity, for example, the thinning of the ozone layer, unsustainability of whaling and atmospheric pollution leading directly to phenomena such as arctic haze. The Arctic and Antarctic are often seen as poles apart because of obvious differences in topography and the latter having no indigenous inhabitants. This book is an attempt to look at both polar regions in terms of the new geopolitics and to show that there is much ...