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China has a population of 1.3 billion people which puts enormous strain on her natural resources. This volume, by one of the leading scholars on the earth's biosphere, provides the fullest account yet of the environmental challenges that China faces.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Smil, Vaclav
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Routledge, 2004.
Series:Critical Asian scholarship.
Subjects:
Power resources > China.
Food supply > China.
Ressources énergétiques > Chine.
Aliments > Approvisionnement > Chine.
Ecology
Food supply
Power resources
China > Environmental conditions.
China
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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