Autore	Smil Vaclav
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom : , : John Wiley & Sons Inc., , 2014
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (243 p.)
Disciplina	306.3
Soggetto topico	Waste minimization Materials Raw materials
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-118-69796-0 1-118-69798-7 1-118-69797-9
Classificazione	TEC021000
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Preface: Why and How; Chapter 1 What Gets Included; Chapter 2 How We Got Here; 2.1 Materials Used by Organisms; 2.2 Materials in Prehistory; 2.3 Ancient and Medieval Materials; 2.4 Materials in the Early Modern Era; 2.5 Creating Modern Material Civilization; 2.6 Materials in the Twentieth Century; Chapter 3 What Matters Most; 3.1 Biomaterials; 3.2 Construction Materials; 3.3 Metals; 3.4 Plastics; 3.5 Industrial Gases; 3.6 Fertilizers; 3.7 Materials in Electronics; Chapter 4 How the Materials Flow; 4.1 Material Flow Accounts; 4.2 America's Material Flows 4.3 European Balances4.4 Materials in China's Modernization; 4.5 Energy Cost of Materials; 4.6 Life-Cycle Assessments; 4.7 Recycling; Chapter 5 Are We Dematerializing?; 5.1 Apparent Dematerializations; 5.2 Relative Dematerializations: Specific Weight Reductions; 5.3 Consequences of Dematerialization; 5.4 Relative Dematerialization in Modern Economies; 5.5 Declining Energy Intensities; 5.6 Decarbonization and Desulfurization; Chapter 6 Material Outlook; 6.1 Natural Resources; 6.2 Wasting Less; 6.3 New Materials and Dematerialization; 6.4 Chances of Fundamental Departures; References; Index
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910453093603321

Autore	Smil Vaclav
Edizione	[1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Chichester, West Sussex, : Wiley-Blackwell, c2013
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (278 p.)
Disciplina	641.3/6
Soggetto topico	Meat - Health aspects Meat industry and trade Vegetarianism
ISBN	1-118-27871-2 1-299-31392-2 1-118-27870-4
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Should We Eat Meat?: Evolution and Consequences of Modern Carnivory; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1 Meat in Nutrition; Meat Eating and Health: Benefits and Concerns; Meat and its nutrients; Meat as a source of food energy; High-quality protein and human growth; Carnivory and civilizational diseases; Diseased meat; 2 Meat in Human Evolution; Hunting Wild Animals: Meat in Human Evolution; Primates and hominins; Meat consumption during the Paleolithic period; Extinction of the late Pleistocene megafauna; Hunting in different ecosystems; Wild meat in sedentary societies Traditional Societies: Animals, Diets and LimitsDomestication of animals; Population densities and environmental imperatives; Long stagnation of typical meat intakes; Avoidances, taboos and proscriptions; Meat as a prestige food; 3 Meat in Modern Societies; Dietary Transition: Modernization of Tastes; Urbanization and industrialization; Long-distance meat trade; Meat in the Western dietary transition; Transitions in modernizing economies; Globalization of tastes; Output and Consumption: Modern Meat Chain; Changing life cycles; Slaughtering of animals; Processing meat Consuming and wasting meatMaking sense of meat statistics; 4 What It Takes to Produce Meat; Modern Meat Production: Practices and Trends; Meat from pastures and mixed farming; Confined animal feeding; Animal feedstuffs; Productivity efficiencies and changes; Treatment of animals; Meat: An Environmentally Expensive Food; Animal densities and aggregate zoomass; Changing animal landscapes; Intensive production of feedstuffs; Water use and water pollution; Meat and the atmosphere; 5 Possible Futures; Toward Rational Meat Eating: Alternatives and Adjustments; Meatless diets Meat substitutes and cultured meatProtein from other animal foodstuffs; Less meaty diets; A large potential for rational meat production; Prospects for Change; References; Index
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910808246703321

Autore	Smil Vaclav
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : The MIT Press, , [2015]
Descrizione fisica	1 PDF (ix, 306 pages) : illustrations
Disciplina	333.79
Soggetto topico	Energy level densities Energy auditing Renewable energy sources Power resources
Soggetto non controllato	ENVIRONMENT/Energy ENVIRONMENT/General PHYSICAL SCIENCES/General
ISBN	9780262326926 0262326922 9780262029148 0262029146 026202914
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910796551803321

Autore	Smil Vaclav
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : The MIT Press, , [2015]
Descrizione fisica	1 PDF (ix, 306 pages) : illustrations
Disciplina	333.79
Soggetto topico	Energy level densities Energy auditing Renewable energy sources Power resources
Soggetto non controllato	ENVIRONMENT/Energy ENVIRONMENT/General PHYSICAL SCIENCES/General
ISBN	9780262326926 0262326922 9780262029148 0262029146 026202914
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910823964203321

Autore	Smil Vaclav
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Cambridge, Mass. : , : MIT Press, , 2010
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (270 p.)
Disciplina	621.43
Soggetto topico	Diesel motor - History Gas-turbines - History Technology and civilization Transportation - Technological innovations - History Motor vehicles - Motors - History Globalization - History
Soggetto non controllato	ENVIRONMENT/General
ISBN	0-262-29704-3 1-283-02011-4 9786613020116 0-262-28977-6
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Altri titoli varianti	Prime movers of globalization
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910789828603321