| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: Monograph/item
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| Title/Author: |
China's past, China's future/ Vaclav Smil. |
| Reminder of title: |
energy, food, environment / |
| Author: |
Smil, Vaclav. |
| Published: |
New York :Routledge, : 2004., |
| Description: |
xv, 232 p. :ill. ;24 cm. |
| Series: |
Critical Asian scholarship |
| [NT 15003449]: |
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. |
| Subject: |
Food supply - China. - |
| Subject: |
China - Environmental conditions. - |
| Online resource: |
https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=105983An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information |
| ISBN: |
0203563204 (electronic bk.) |