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

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New York : Routledge, 2004.

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Description	1 online resource (xv, 232 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Series	Critical Asian scholarship
	Critical Asian scholarship.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-228) and index.
Contents	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.
Local Note	eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject	China -- Environmental conditions.
	China.
	Environmental conditions.
	Power resources -- China.
	Power resources.
	Food supply -- China.
	Food supply.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Smil, Vaclav. China's past, China's future. New York : Routledge, 2004 0415314984 0415314992 (DLC) 2003006064 (OCoLC)51905770
ISBN	0203563204 (electronic book)
	9780203563205 (electronic book)
	0415314992 (Paper)
	0415314984 (hardcover)

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

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