Harvesting the Biosphere
What We Have Taken from Nature
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- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
21 August 2015
Summary
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, …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262528276 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262528274 |
| Author: | Vaclav Smil |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 21 August 2015 |
| Weight: | 496g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 178mm x 16mm |
| Series: | The MIT Press |
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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 NotesAbout The Author
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 look forward to more than Vaclav Smil.”
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