China's environmental crisis : an inquiry into the limits of national development /
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| Author / Creator: | Smil, Vaclav |
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| Imprint: | Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, c1993. |
| Description: | xix, 257 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1474162 |
Table of Contents:
- China Impressions China's Environment
- 1. People's Mouths
- How Do People Matter?
- Growing to a Billion
- Recent Countercurrents
- Coming Generations
- 2. Existential Necessities
- Yin-yang of Waters
- Changing Farmland
- Forests, Grasslands, Wetlands
- 3. China's Modernization
- Wealth and Prosperity
- Quality of Life
- Living Longer
- Learning More
- Feeling Richer
- 4. Energizing The Advances
- Energy for the Countryside
- Land, Water, and Energy
- Air Pollution
- Future Needs
- Generation of Co2
- 5. Growing Food
- Managing the Land
- Irrigating the Fields
- Fertilizing the Crops
- Farming Without Excess
- 6. Living with the Limits
- Realities and Aspirations
- Adaptations and Uncertain Prospects