China's past, China's future: energy, food, environment

✍ Scribed by Smil, Vaclav

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2004;2011
• Tongue: English
• Series: Critical Asian scholarship
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ 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.

✦ Subjects

Food supply--China;Power resources--China;Power resources;Food supply;Power resources -- China;Food supply -- China;China