Harvesting the biosphere :
Smil, Vaclav.
Harvesting the biosphere : what we have taken from nature / Vaclav Smil. - ©2013. - viii, 307 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-295) and indexes.
I. The earth's biomass: stores, productivity, harvests -- Biomass: definitions and compositions -- Biomass stores: means and extremes -- Biomass productivities -- Phytomass harvests -- Zoomass harvests -- Land cover and productivity changes -- II. History of the harvests: from foraging to globalization -- The evolution of foraging -- Crops and animals -- Biomass fuels and raw materials -- III. Adding up the claims: harvests, losses, and trends -- Changing land cover and land use -- Harvesting the biosphere -- Long-term trends and possible worlds.
9780262018562 (hardcover : alk. paper)
2012021381
Biomass.
Biosphere.
Environmental auditing.
Natural resources--Accounting.
Earth (Planet)--Surface.
Print books.
TP360 / .S55 2013
Harvesting the biosphere : what we have taken from nature / Vaclav Smil. - ©2013. - viii, 307 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-295) and indexes.
I. The earth's biomass: stores, productivity, harvests -- Biomass: definitions and compositions -- Biomass stores: means and extremes -- Biomass productivities -- Phytomass harvests -- Zoomass harvests -- Land cover and productivity changes -- II. History of the harvests: from foraging to globalization -- The evolution of foraging -- Crops and animals -- Biomass fuels and raw materials -- III. Adding up the claims: harvests, losses, and trends -- Changing land cover and land use -- Harvesting the biosphere -- Long-term trends and possible worlds.
9780262018562 (hardcover : alk. paper)
2012021381
Biomass.
Biosphere.
Environmental auditing.
Natural resources--Accounting.
Earth (Planet)--Surface.
Print books.
TP360 / .S55 2013