"Cleo Paskal is original and compelling; a pioneering scholar of the new terrain where climate change confronts national security, she charts the dramatic implications not just for the game of nations but for their geographic borders, their resources and their fundamental interests." -- Martin Walker, senior director of the Global Business Policy Council and Editor-in-Chief Emeritus of United Press International. "Cleo Paskal's mastery over geopolitics has been fused to a remarkable understanding of just how the coming geophysical changes may affect our planet. This is the fist comprehensive view of the real consequences of environmental change." -- M D Nalapat, UNESCO Peace Chair and director of the Department of Geopolitics, Manipal University, India #Cleo Paskal's vividly illustrates the complex interconnections between climate change, environmental conditions, and energy security. Rather than just take a global view, she also demonstrates how environmental changes will impact the lives of people across the globe.# --Chad Briggs, Senior Advisor, Energy and Environmental Security Directorate. US Department of Energy. #In a field beset by hyperbole on the one hand, and complacency on the other, Cleo Paskal's work provides a refreshing, well-grounded and highly readable take on geopolitics and environmental change in the twenty-first century.# --Jeffrey Mazo, International Institute for Strategic Studies