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

• Autore: Smil Vaclav
• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Routledge, , 2004
• Descrizione fisica: xv, 232 p. : ill
• Disciplina: 304.2/8/0951
• Soggetto topico: Power resources - China; Food supply - China
• Soggetto geografico: China Environmental conditions
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: China's past, China's future
• ISBN: 1-134-37768-1; 1-134-37769-X; 0-415-31498-4; 1-280-06332-7; 0-203-56320-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910777472203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Critical Asian scholarship.