"Klaus Dodds and Mark Nuttall look behind the headlines and hyperbole to reveal a complex picture of the so-called scramble for the poles. Whilst anxieties over the potential for conflict and the destruction of what is often perceived as the world's last wildernesses have come to dominate Polar debates and are, to some extent, justified, their study also highlights longer historical and geographical patterns and processes of human activity in these remote territories." --back cover.

Scrambling for the extraordinary --Making and remaking the polar regions -- Under ice and snow -- Governing the arctic and Antarctic -- New resource frontiers -- Opening up the poles -- Polar demands and demanding polar regions.