Smil, Vaclav. <br/><br/>
Harvesting the biosphere :  what we have taken from nature / 
Vaclav Smil. 
 -  ©2013. 
 - viii, 307 p. :  ill. ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-295) and indexes. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780262018562 (hardcover : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2012021381 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Biomass.<br/>Biosphere.<br/>Environmental auditing.<br/>Natural resources--Accounting.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Earth (Planet)--Surface.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Print books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>TP360  / .S55 2013