03192oam 2200673I 450 991082078780332120240405102640.01-134-37768-11-134-37769-X0-415-31498-41-280-06332-70-203-56320-410.4324/9780203563205 (CKB)1000000000444885(SSID)ssj0000291464(PQKBManifestationID)11217298(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000291464(PQKBWorkID)10250327(PQKB)10912210(MiAaPQ)EBC182596(Au-PeEL)EBL182596(CaPaEBR)ebr10101168(CaONFJC)MIL6332(OCoLC)76893972(OCoLC)57176629(PPN)158258452(EXLCZ)99100000000044488520180331d2004 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrChina's past, China's future energy, food, environment /Vaclav Smil1st ed.New York :Routledge,2004.xv, 232 p. illCritical Asian scholarship China's past, China's future Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-415-31499-2 0-203-34830-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.China has a population of 1.3 billion people which puts strain on her natural resources. This volume, by one of the leading scholars on the earth's biosphere, is the result of a lifetime of study, and provides the fullest account yet of the environmental challenges that China faces. The author examines China's energy resources, their uses, impacts and prospects, from the 1970s oil crisis to the present day, before analysing the key question of how China can best produce enough food to feed its enormous population.Critical Asian scholarship.Power resourcesChinaFood supplyChinaChinaEnvironmental conditionsPower resourcesFood supply304.2/8/0951Smil Vaclav.140188MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910820787803321China's past, China's future4005044UNINA