China's environmental crisis : an inquiry into the limits of national development /: an inquiry into the limits of national development. (©1993)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: By Vaclav Smil.
• Other Names: Smil, Vaclav
• 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. Eating Better. Living Longer. Learning More. Feeling Richer -- 4. Energizing the Advances. Energy for the Countryside. Land, Water, and Energy. Air Pollution. Future Needs. Generation of CO[subscript 2] -- 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.
• Publisher Details: Armonk, N.Y : M.E. Sharpe
• Publication Date: 1993
• Copyright Date: 1993
• Extent: 1 online resource (xix, 257 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 363.7/0951; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations; Environmental policy -- China; Economic development -- Environmental aspects; Desarrollo económico -- Aspectos ambientales; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General; Economic development -- Environmental aspects; Environmental policy; Milieuvraagstuk; Umweltpolitik; Umweltschutz; Wirtschaftsentwicklung; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS; CHINA; China; China; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781315288390; 1315288397
• Related ISBNs: 0873328191; 9780873328197; 1563240416; 9781563240416; 9781315288406; 1315288400
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
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