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Author(s): Vaclav Smil
ISBN(s): 9780415314992, 0415314992
Edition: Kindle
File Details: PDF, 5.87 MB
Year: 2004
Language: english
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Author: Vaclav Smil

China has a population of 1.3 billion people which puts strain on her natural resources. This volume, by one of the leading scholars on the earth’s biosphere, is the result of a lifetime of study, and provides the fullest account yet of the environmental challenges that China faces. The author examines China’s energy resources, their uses, impacts and prospects, from the 1970s oil crisis to the present day, before analysing the key question of how China can best produce enough food to feed its enormous population.
 

Table of Contents:

  • 1 Introduction: China’s biophysical foundations
  • My Chinese experiences
  • Challenges of understanding
  • Interdisciplinary perspectives
  • 2 Energy
  • Half a century of advances: China’s energy 1950—2000
  • The continuing importance of traditional energies: on muscles, wood and straw
  • A failed strategy: small is not always beautiful
  • From a new Saudi Arabia to concerns about oil security: the ups and downs of China’s oil industry
  • A remarkable shift in energy intensities: a closer look at an unexpected achievement
  • Notes
  • 3 Food
  • The world’s greatest famine: its origins, toll and inexplicable neglect
  • From subsistence to satiety: food supply and agricultural transformation
  • Dietary transitions: eating better, wasting more
  • Nitrogen in China’s agriculture: an unorthodox history
  • Can China feed itself ? Concerns and solutions
  • Notes
  • 4 Environment
  • Attitudes and constraints: constancy and change
  • The first of the five elements: China’s water
  • China’s environment and security: simple myths and complex realities
  • The cost of China’s environmental change: quantifying the economic impact
  • Megaprojects and China’s environment: a tale of two dams and rapid trains
  • Notes
  • 5 Looking ahead by looking back
  • Failed forecasts
  • Contending trends
  • Appendix: Units of measurement and quantitative abbreviations

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