Foreign Policy: The Failed States Index 2007

Link: Foreign Policy: The Failed States Index 2007.

As the world warms, states at risk face severe threats to their groundwater, agriculture, and ecosystems, factors that can rapidly undo political and economic gains. This year’s index found a strong correlation between stability and environmental sustainability, a country’s ability to avoid environmental disaster and deterioration. That means that in poorly performing states on the edge, including Bangladesh, Egypt, and Indonesia, the risks of flooding, drought, and deforestation have little chance of being properly managed. And that suggests storms are brewing on the horizon for the world’s most vulnerable...."

(((There are not Balkan micro-states in here... I wonder where they are supposed to fit.
Also, what about environmentally failed areas WITHIN states, like the Ninth Ward and most of Montana?)))