TY  - BOOK
AU  - Smil,Vaclav
TI  - Harvesting the biosphere: what we have taken from nature 
SN  - 9780262018562 (hardcover : alk. paper)
AV  - TP360 .S55 2013
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - MIT Press
KW  - Biomass
KW  - Biosphere
KW  - Environmental auditing
KW  - Natural resources
KW  - Accounting
KW  - Earth (Planet)
KW  - Surface
KW  - local
KW  - Print books
N1  - 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
ER  -