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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smil, Vaclav, author.

Series:

Critical Asian scholarship.

Critical Asian scholarship China's past, China's future

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Power resources--China.

Power resources.

Food supply--China.

Food supply.

China--Environmental conditions.

China.

Physical Description:

xv, 232 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-134-37768-1

1-134-37769-X

0-415-31498-4

1-280-06332-7

0-203-56320-4

9780203563205

OCLC:

76893972