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

✍ Scribed by Vaclav Smil

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 249
• Series: Critical Asian scholarship
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Content: 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

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
List of illustrations......Page 12
Preface......Page 14
Acknowledgments......Page 15
List of abbreviations......Page 17
Introduction: China's biophysical foundations......Page 18
Energy......Page 26
Food......Page 89
Environment......Page 158
Looking ahead by looking back......Page 224
Appendix......Page 233
Bibliography......Page 234
Index......Page 246