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	<title>Future Atlas &#187; Australia-Pacific</title>
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		<title>The Rights of Phantom Islands</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2009/07/28/the-rights-of-phantom-islands/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 16:50:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This spring The Economist wrote about the extension of maritime claims to continental shelf beyond 200 nautical miles from land.  Huge areas of ocean are being claimed, with rights to oil, metal, and seabed methane hydrates.
While some issues are being worked out amicably, the move could intensify other disputes, such as those around the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Australia&#8217;s Changing Strategic Environment</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2009/07/15/australias-changing-strategic-environment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 14:28:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Australians are reexamining strategy as the world changes around them.
On National Public Radio this morning, a report suggested that Australia is considering its situation as the perceived balance between the US and China changes.  Centuries of protection by the fleets of Britain and the United States may be coming to an end; an Australian [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eight Disappearing Islands?</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2009/02/28/eight-disappearing-islands/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:38:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The website Treehugger suggests eight places &#8212; low-lying islands, more specifically &#8212; that will &#8220;soon&#8221; be uninhabitable due to climate change.
They are:

the Maldives, in the Indian Ocean
Tuvalu, Kiribati, the Carteret Islands (off PNG), and Majuro Atoll (Marshall Islands) in the Pacific
Lamu and Pate, Kenyan coastal islands
Bhola, in southern Bangladesh
Key West, off southern Florida

&#8220;Soon&#8221; is a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New global e-readiness rankings</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2006/04/27/new-global-e-readiness-rankings/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2006/04/27/new-global-e-readiness-rankings/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Apr 2006 18:05:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Economist Intelligence Unit released its 2006 e-readiness rankings yesterday. The index is a measure of a country&#8217;s readiness for e-business, judged by Internet access, broadband penetration, innovation, information security, and other factors. More telling than the ranking is the country&#8217;s distance from a score of 10.
The ratings are a good indicator of general abilities [...]]]></description>
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		<title>World economies to 2050: a wealthier planet</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2006/03/26/world-economies-to-2050-a-wealthier-planet/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2006/03/26/world-economies-to-2050-a-wealthier-planet/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Mar 2006 18:12:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[PriceWaterhouseCoopers has released a study of potential growth in the world&#8217;s 17 largest economies out to the year 2050.
The study forecasts the eclipse of the current developed economies. The E7, largest emerging market economies (China, India, Russia, Brazil, Indonesia, Mexico, Turkey), were only 20% of the size of the G7 economies at market exchange rates [...]]]></description>
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