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

by Smil, Vaclav.

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New York : Routledge, 2004.

Power resources -- China.

Food supply -- China.

China -- Environmental conditions.

Electronic Resource

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip041/2003006064.html

0415314984 (hardcover)

0415314992 (pbk.)

Critical Asian scholarship

xv, 232 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

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.

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