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Harvesting the Biosphere: What We Have Taken from Nature
Vaclav Smil
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Description for Harvesting the Biosphere: What We Have Taken from Nature
Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages, 16 b&w illus. BIC Classification: KCN; RNC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 172 x 223 x 17. Weight in Grams: 476.
An interdisciplinary and quantitative account of human claims on the biosphere's stores of living matter, from prehistoric hunting to modern energy production. The biosphere-the Earth's thin layer of life-dates from nearly four billion years ago, when the first simple organisms appeared. Many species have exerted enormous influence on the biosphere's character and productivity, but none has transformed the Earth in so many ways and on such a scale as Homo sapiens. In Harvesting the Biosphere, Vaclav Smil offers an interdisciplinary and quantitative account of human claims on the biosphere's stores of living matter, from prehistory to the ... Read more
An interdisciplinary and quantitative account of human claims on the biosphere's stores of living matter, from prehistoric hunting to modern energy production. The biosphere-the Earth's thin layer of life-dates from nearly four billion years ago, when the first simple organisms appeared. Many species have exerted enormous influence on the biosphere's character and productivity, but none has transformed the Earth in so many ways and on such a scale as Homo sapiens. In Harvesting the Biosphere, Vaclav Smil offers an interdisciplinary and quantitative account of human claims on the biosphere's stores of living matter, from prehistory to the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
MIT Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass., United States
ISBN
9780262528276
SKU
V9780262528276
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About Vaclav Smil
Vaclav Smil is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Manitoba. He is the author of forty books, including Energy and Civilization, published by the MIT Press. In 2010 he was named by Foreign Policy as one of the Top 100 Global Thinkers. In 2013 Bill Gates wrote on his website that there is no author whose books I ... Read more
Reviews for Harvesting the Biosphere: What We Have Taken from Nature
There's no author whose books I look forward to more than Vaclav Smil.... In Harvesting the Biosphere, Smil gives us as clear and numeric a picture as is possible of how humans have altered the biosphere. -Bill Gates, The Gates Notes