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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777472203321

Autore

Smil Vaclav

Titolo

China's past, China's future : energy, food, environment / / Vaclav Smil

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2004

ISBN

1-134-37768-1

1-134-37769-X

0-415-31498-4

1-280-06332-7

0-203-56320-4

Descrizione fisica

xv, 232 p. : ill

Collana

Critical Asian scholarship China's past, China's future

Disciplina

304.2/8/0951

Soggetti

Power resources - China

Food supply - China

China Environmental conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.