Vaclav Smil
Czech-Canadian scientist and policy analyst
Works (40)

How the World Really Works

Energy in world history
1994

Numbers Don't Lie

Growth

Energy and Civilization

Energy myths and realities

Making the Modern World

Energy
May 25, 2006

Should we eat meat?

Made in the USA

Global catastrophes and trends
2008

Feeding the World
April 3, 2000

Oil
March 25, 2008

Grand Transitions

Harvesting The Biosphere What We Have Taken From Nature

Energy at the Crossroads
November 1, 2003

Energies
December 5, 1998

Why America is not a new Rome
2010

Cycles of life
1997

Enriching the Earth
2001

Creating the Twentieth Century
2004

Prime movers of globalization

Energy transitions

China's environmental crisis
1993

The Earth's Biosphere
July 21, 2002

Energy in Nature and Society
2008

Japan's dietary transition and its impacts

Power Density

Carbon nitrogen sulfur
1985

The bad earth
1984

Energy in China's modernization
1988

Energy in the Developing World

China's past, China's future
2003

China's energy
1976

Energy, food, environment
1987

Global ecology
1993

General energetics
1991

Biomass energies
1983

Transforming the twentieth century
2006

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