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Smil, Vaclav

China's past, China's future energy, food, environment Vaclav Smil - New York Routledge 2004 - xv, 232 p. ill. 24 cm - Critical Asian scholarship .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-228) 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.

ISBN: 0415314984 0415314992 9780415314992

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Politics -- Environmental Policy -- Food Production -- Energy Requisition -- Environmental Protection--China.
Food supply--China.