China's environmental crisis : an inquiry into the limits of national development / by Vaclav Smil.

By:

Smil, Vaclav

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publication details: Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, c1993.Description: xix, 257 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0873328191 (alk. paper)
1563240416 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780873328197 (alk. paper)
9781563240416 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

363.7/0951

LOC classification:

GE 185 S641c 1993

Contents:

1. People's mouths 2. Existential necessities 3. China's modernization 4. Energizing the advances 5. Growing food 6. Living with the limits

Summary: In 1982, Vaclav Smil turned upside down traditional perceptions of China as a green paradise in "The Bad Earth". Updating and expanding its basic arguments and perceptions, this volume is an inquiry into the fundamental factors, needs, prospects, and limits of modern Chinese society.

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"An East gate book."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. People's mouths
2. Existential necessities
3. China's modernization
4. Energizing the advances
5. Growing food
6. Living with the limits

In 1982, Vaclav Smil turned upside down traditional perceptions of China as a green paradise in "The Bad Earth". Updating and expanding its basic arguments and perceptions, this volume is an inquiry into the fundamental factors, needs, prospects, and limits of modern Chinese society.

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