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China's past, China's future: energy, food, environment

By Vaclav , Smil

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
ISBN
0203563204, 0203338537, 0415314984, 0415314992, 9780203563205, 9780415314985, 9780415314992
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
987 kB (1011133 bytes)
Series
Critical Asian scholarship
Pages
xv, 232 s. : illustrations ; 24 cm\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
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Description

China's Biophysical Foundations -- My Chinese Experiences -- Challenges Of Understanding -- Interdisciplinary Perspectives -- Energy -- Half a Century Of Advances -- Continuing Importance Of Traditional Energies -- A Failed Strategy -- From A New Saudi Arabia To Concerns About Oil Security -- A Remarkable Shift In Energy Intensities -- Food -- The World's Greatest Famine -- From Subsistence To Satiety -- Dietary Transitions -- Nitrogen In China's Agriculture -- Can China Feed Itself?. Environment -- Attitudes And Constraints -- The First Of The Five Elements -- China's Environment And Security -- Cost Of China's Environmental Change -- Megaprojects And China's Environment -- Looking Ahead By Looking Back -- Failed Forecasts -- Contending Trends.

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