A Research Agenda for Environmental Geopolitics最新文献

The geopolitics of transportation in the melting Arctic 融化的北极地区的交通地缘政治

A Research Agenda for Environmental Geopolitics Pub Date : 2020-02-03 DOI: 10.4337/9781788971249.00016

F. Lasserre, Pierre-Louis Têtu

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Conflicts, commodities and the environmental geopolitics of supply chains 冲突，商品和供应链的环境地缘政治

A Research Agenda for Environmental Geopolitics Pub Date : 2020-02-03 DOI: 10.4337/9781788971249.00012

P. Billon, Lauren Shykora

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Environmental geopolitics: an introduction to questions and research approaches 环境地缘政治:问题与研究方法导论

A Research Agenda for Environmental Geopolitics Pub Date : 2020-02-03 DOI: 10.4337/9781788971249.00006

S. O’Lear

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Overcoming Selective Spatial Focus 克服选择性空间聚焦

A Research Agenda for Environmental Geopolitics Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.4337/9781788971249.00015

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Interpreting and Measuring the Environment 解释和测量环境

A Research Agenda for Environmental Geopolitics Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.4337/9781788971249.00007

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Power, Knowledge and Human–Environment Interactions 权力、知识和人与环境的相互作用

A Research Agenda for Environmental Geopolitics Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.4337/9781788971249.00011

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