- Author : Vaclav Smil
- Publisher : Oxford University Press
- Release : 2012-12-04
- Category: Business & Economics
- Total Pages : 400
- ISBN-10 : 0190060689
What makes the modern world work? The answer to this deceptively simple question lies in four "grand transitions" of civilization--in populations, agriculture, energy, and economics--which have transformed the way we live. Societies that have undergone all four transitions emerge into an era of radically different population dynamics, food surpluses (and waste), abundant energy use, and expanding economic opportunities. Simultaneously, in other parts of the world, hundreds of millions remain largely untouched by these developments. Through erudite storytelling, Vaclav Smil investigates the fascinating and complex interactions of these transitions. He argues that the moral imperative to share modernity's benefits has become more acute with increasing economic inequality, but addressing this imbalance would make it exceedingly difficult to implement the changes necessary for the long-term preservation of the environment. Thus, managing the fifth transition--environmental changes from natural-resource depletion, biodiversity loss, and global warming--will determine the success or eventual failure of the grand transitions that have made the world we live in today.
- Author : Vaclav Smil
- Publisher : Oxford University Press
- Release : 2012-12-04
- Category: Business & Economics
- Total Pages : 400
- ISBN-10 : 0190060670
- Author : Vaclav Smil
- Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
- Release : 2012-12-04
- Category: Technology & Engineering
- Total Pages : 248
- ISBN-10 : 1118697960
- Author : Vaclav Smil
- Publisher : MIT Press
- Release : 2012-12-04
- Category: Nature
- Total Pages : 664
- ISBN-10 : 0262354527
- Author : Vaclav Smil
- Publisher : Penguin
- Release : 2012-12-04
- Category: Science
- Total Pages : 336
- ISBN-10 : 0593297075
- Author : Vaclav Smil
- Publisher : MIT Press
- Release : 2012-12-04
- Category: Science
- Total Pages : 568
- ISBN-10 : 0262338319
- Author : Vaclav Smil
- Publisher : ABC-CLIO
- Release : 2012-12-04
- Category: Science
- Total Pages : 282
- ISBN-10 : 1440853258
- Author : Vaclav Smil
- Publisher : MIT Press
- Release : 2012-12-04
- Category: Science
- Total Pages : 320
- ISBN-10 : 0262326930
- Author : Vaclav Smil
- Publisher : Oxford University Press
- Release : 2012-12-04
- Category: History
- Total Pages : 368
- ISBN-10 : 0199883424
- Author : Kenneth Cukier,Viktor Mayer-Schönberger,Francis de Véricourt
- Publisher : Penguin
- Release : 2012-12-04
- Category: Psychology
- Total Pages : 272
- ISBN-10 : 059318260X
- Author : Vaclav Smil
- Publisher : Oxford University Press
- Release : 2012-12-04
- Category: History
- Total Pages : 368
- ISBN-10 : 9780198037743
- Author : Severine Autesserre
- Publisher : Oxford University Press
- Release : 2012-12-04
- Category: Political Science
- Total Pages : 221
- ISBN-10 : 0197530370
- Author : Saul Griffith
- Publisher : MIT Press
- Release : 2012-12-04
- Category: Science
- Total Pages : 288
- ISBN-10 : 0262367270
- Author : Will Storr
- Publisher : Abrams
- Release : 2012-12-04
- Category: Social Science
- Total Pages : 416
- ISBN-10 : 1468315900
- Author : David Sumpter
- Publisher : Flatiron Books
- Release : 2012-12-04
- Category: Business & Economics
- Total Pages : 336
- ISBN-10 : 1250246970
- Author : Hamish McKenzie
- Publisher : Penguin
- Release : 2012-12-04
- Category: Business & Economics
- Total Pages : 304
- ISBN-10 : 1101985976
- Author : Erik Voeten
- Publisher : Princeton University Press
- Release : 2012-12-04
- Category: Political Science
- Total Pages : 224
- ISBN-10 : 069120733X
- Author : Charles Goodhart,Manoj Pradhan
- Publisher : Springer Nature
- Release : 2012-12-04
- Category: Business & Economics
- Total Pages : 260
- ISBN-10 : 3030426572
- Author : Vaclav Smil
- Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
- Release : 2012-12-04
- Category: Science
- Total Pages : 264
- ISBN-10 : 1119012848
- Author : Vaclav Smil
- Publisher : Butterworth-Heinemann
- Release : 2012-12-04
- Category: Technology & Engineering
- Total Pages : 280
- ISBN-10 : 0128042354
- Author : Ian Baucom
- Publisher : Duke University Press
- Release : 2012-12-04
- Category: Literary Criticism
- Total Pages : 150
- ISBN-10 : 147801203X
- Author : Vaclav Smil
- Publisher : MIT Press
- Release : 2012-12-04
- Category: Science
- Total Pages : 320
- ISBN-10 : 0262291622
- Author : Tim Dyson
- Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
- Release : 2012-12-04
- Category: Social Science
- Total Pages : 286
- ISBN-10 : 1848139128
- Author : Andrew F Krepinevich,Barry D Watts
- Publisher : Basic Books
- Release : 2012-12-04
- Category: History
- Total Pages : 344
- ISBN-10 : 0465080715
- Author : Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic
- Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
- Release : 2012-12-04
- Category: Mathematics
- Total Pages : 288
- ISBN-10 : 1119002265
- Author : John R. Allen,Frederick Ben Hodges,Julian Lindley-French
- Publisher : Oxford University Press
- Release : 2012-12-04
- Category: Political Science
- Total Pages : 328
- ISBN-10 : 0192597868
- Author : Jostein Gaarder
- Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Release : 2012-12-04
- Category: Fiction
- Total Pages : 544
- ISBN-10 : 1466804270
- Author : Kirksey, Eben
- Publisher : Policy Press
- Release : 2012-12-04
- Category: Social Science
- Total Pages : 304
- ISBN-10 : 152921730X
- Author : Paul Hawken
- Publisher : Penguin
- Release : 2012-12-04
- Category: Science
- Total Pages : 256
- ISBN-10 : 1524704652
- Author : Xiaowei Wang
- Publisher : FSG Originals
- Release : 2012-12-04
- Category: Social Science
- Total Pages : 256
- ISBN-10 : 0374721254
- Author : Vaclav Smil
- Publisher : Routledge
- Release : 2012-12-04
- Category: History
- Total Pages : 256
- ISBN-10 : 1134377681
- Author : Ananyo Bhattacharya
- Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
- Release : 2012-12-04
- Category: Biography & Autobiography
- Total Pages : 368
- ISBN-10 : 1324004002
- Author : George A. Bonanno
- Publisher : Basic Books
- Release : 2012-12-04
- Category: Psychology
- Total Pages : 336
- ISBN-10 : 1541674375
- Author : Jim Elser,Phil Haygarth
- Publisher : Oxford University Press
- Release : 2012-12-04
- Category: Science
- Total Pages : 320
- ISBN-10 : 0197545319
- Author : Sidarta Ribeiro,Daniel Hahn
- Publisher : Pantheon
- Release : 2012-12-04
- Category: Science
- Total Pages : 480
- ISBN-10 : 1524746916
- Author : John Brockman
- Publisher : Vintage
- Release : 2012-12-04
- Category: Science
- Total Pages : 320
- ISBN-10 : 0307429075
- Author : Meghan L. O'Sullivan
- Publisher : Simon and Schuster
- Release : 2012-12-04
- Category: Political Science
- Total Pages : 496
- ISBN-10 : 150110795X
- Author : Bret Easton Ellis
- Publisher : Pan Macmillan
- Release : 2012-12-04
- Category: Fiction
- Total Pages : 400
- ISBN-10 : 1447277716
- Author : P.D. James
- Publisher : Canongate Books
- Release : 2012-12-04
- Category: Bibles
- Total Pages : 96
- ISBN-10 : 0857861077
- Author : David S.-K. Ting,Ahmad Vasel-Be-Hagh
- Publisher : Springer Nature
- Release : 2012-12-04
- Category: Business & Economics
- Total Pages : 233
- ISBN-10 : 3030921484