Harvesting the biosphere : what we have taken from nature / Vaclav Smil.
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2013Description: viii, 307 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780262018562 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- TP360 .S55 2013
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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.