Vaclav Smil
Encyclopedia
Books
- 2010 : Prime Movers of Globalization: The History and Impact of Diesel Engines and Gas Turbines The MIT Press Cambridge, 261 p. ISBN 978-0-262-01443-4
- 2010 : Energy Myths and Realities: Bringing Science to the Energy Policy Debate The AEIAmerican Enterprise InstituteThe American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research is a conservative think tank founded in 1943. Its stated mission is "to defend the principles and improve the institutions of American freedom and democratic capitalism—limited government, private enterprise, individual liberty and...
Press, Washington, D.C., 212p. ISBN 978-0-8447-4328-8 - 2010 : Why America is Not a New Rome MIT PressMIT PressThe MIT Press is a university press affiliated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts .-History:...
Cambridge, 322 p. ISBN 978-0-262-19593-5 - 2008 : Global Catastrophes and Trends: The Next Fifty Years, The MIT Press, Cambridge, xi + 307 p. ISBN 978-0262195867
- 2008 : Oil: A Beginner's Guide, Oneworld Publishers, Oxford, xiii + 202 p.
- 2007 : Energy in Nature and Society: General Energetics of Complex Systems, The MIT Press, Cambridge, xi + 480 p.
- 2006 : Transforming the Twentieth Century: Technical Innovations and Their Consequences, Oxford University PressOxford University PressOxford University Press is the largest university press in the world. It is a department of the University of Oxford and is governed by a group of 15 academics appointed by the Vice-Chancellor known as the Delegates of the Press. They are headed by the Secretary to the Delegates, who serves as...
, New York, x + 358 p. - 2005 : Creating the Twentieth Century: Technical Innovations of 1867-1914 and Their Lasting Impact, Oxford University Press, New York, xv + 350 p.
- 2005 : Energy at the Crossroads Global Perspectives and Uncertainties, The MIT Press, Cambridge, xiv + 427 p.
- 2004 : China’s Past, China’s Future, RoutledgeCurzon, New York et Londres, xvi + 232 p.
- 2002 : The Earth's Biosphere: Evolution, Dynamics and Change, The MIT Press, Cambridge, xxviii + 360 p.
- 2001 : Enriching the Earth: Fritz Haber, Carl Bosch and the Transformation of World Food Production, The MIT Press, Cambridge, xvii + 411 p.
- 2000 : Cycles of Life: Civilization and the Biosphere, Scientific AmericanScientific AmericanScientific American is a popular science magazine. It is notable for its long history of presenting science monthly to an educated but not necessarily scientific public, through its careful attention to the clarity of its text as well as the quality of its specially commissioned color graphics...
Library, New York, x + 221 p. - 2000 : Feeding the World: A Challenge for the 21st Century, The MIT Press, Cambridge, xxviii + 360 p.
- 1998 : Energies: An Illustrated Guide to the Biosphere and Civilization, The MIT Press, Cambridge, xi + 217 p.
- 1994 : Energy in World History, Westview PressWestview PressWestview Press is an American publishing house. It publishes textbooks and scholarly works for an academic audience.Westview was founded in 1975 in Boulder, Colorado by Fred Praeger. The press was sold in 1991 to SCS Communications. HarperCollins acquired the company in 1995. Since 1998, it has...
, Boulder, xviii + 300 p. - 1993 : Global Ecology: Environmental Change and Social Flexibility, Routledge, London, xiii + 240 p.
- 1993 : China's Environment: An Inquiry into the Limits of National Development, M.E. Sharpe, Armonk, xix + 257 p.
- 1991 : General Energetics: Energy in the Biosphere and Civilization, John WileyJohn WileyJohn Wiley may refer to:*John Wiley & Sons, publishing company*John Cooper Wiley, US foreign service officer and ambassador*John D. Wiley, former Chancellor of the University of Wisconsin–Madison*John M. Wiley , U.S...
, New York, xiii + 369 p. - 1988 : Energy in China's Modernization, M.E. Sharpe, Armonk, xiv + 250 p.
- 1987 : Energy Food Environment: Realities Myths Options, Oxford University PressOxford University PressOxford University Press is the largest university press in the world. It is a department of the University of Oxford and is governed by a group of 15 academics appointed by the Vice-Chancellor known as the Delegates of the Press. They are headed by the Secretary to the Delegates, who serves as...
, Oxford, ix + 361 p. - 1985 : Carbon Nitrogen Sulfur: Human Interference in Grand Biospheric Cycles, Plenum Press, New York, xv + 459 p.
- 1984 : The Bad Earth: Environmental Degradation in China, M.E. Sharpe, Armonk, xvi + 245 p.
- 1983 : Biomass Energies: Resources, Links, Constraints, Plenum Press, New York, xxi + 453 p.
- 1982 : (in collaboration with P. Nachman and T.V. Long, II) Energy Analysis in Agriculture: An Application to U.S. Corn Production, Westview Press, Boulder, xvi + 191 p.
- 1980 : (in collaboration with W. E. Knowland) Energy in the Developing World, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 386 p.
- 1976 : China's Energy: Achievements, Problems, Prospects, Praeger Publishers, New York, xxi + 246 p.
Articles
- Energy innovation as a process: Lessons from LNG. Master Resource: A Free-Market Energy Blog. January 11, 2010.
- Two decades later: Nikkei and lessons from the fall. The American, December 29, 2009.
- The Iron Age & coal-based coke: A neglected case of fossil-fuel dependence. Master Resource: A Free-Market Energy Blog. September 17, 2009.
- U.S. energy policy: The need for radical departures. Issues in Science and Technology Summer 2009:47-50.
- Long-range energy forecasts are no more than fairy tales. Nature 453:154; 2008.
- Moore’s curse and the great energy delusion. The American 2(6): 34-41; 2008.
- Water news: bad, good and virtual. American ScientistAmerican ScientistAmerican Scientist is the bimonthly science and technology magazine published since 1913 by Sigma Xi. Each issue includes four to five feature articles written by scientists and engineers. These authors review research in all fields of science...
96:399-407; 2008. - On meat, fish and statistics: The global food regime and animal consumption in the United States and Japan. Japan Focus, October 19, 2008. .
- James N. Galloway, Marshall Burke, G. Eric Bradford, Rosamond Naylor, Walter Falcon, Ashok K. Chapagain, Joanne C. Gaskell, Ellen McCullough, Harold A. Mooney, Kirsten L. L. Oleson, Henning Steinfeld, Tom Wassenaar and Vaclav Smil. 2007. International trade in meat: The tip of the pork chop. Ambio 36:622-629.
- The two prime movers of globalization: history and impact of diesel engines and gas turbines. Journal of Global History 3:373-394; 2007.
- Global material cycles. Encyclopedia of EarthEncyclopedia of EarthThe Encyclopedia of Earth is an electronic reference about the Earth, its natural environments, and their interaction with society. The Encyclopedia is described as a free, fully searchable collection of articles written by scholars, professionals, educators, and other approved experts, who...
, June 2, 2007. - The unprecedented shift in Japan’s population: Numbers, age, and prospects. Japan Focus, May 1, 2007.
- Light behind the fall: Japan’s electricity consumption, the environment, and economic growth. Japan Focus, April 2, 2007.
- 21st century energy: Some sobering thoughts. OECD Observer; 2006.
- Peak oil: A catastrophist cult and complex realities. World Watch 19: 22-24; 2006.
- Naylor, R., Steinfeld, H., Falcon, W., Galloway, J., Smil, V., Bradford, E., Alder, J., Mooney, H. Losing the links between livestock and land. Science (journal)Science (journal)Science is the academic journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and is one of the world's top scientific journals....
310:1621-1622 - The next 50 years: Unfolding trends. Population and Development Review 31: 605-643; 2005.
- Feeding the world: How much more rice do we need? In: Toriyama K., Heong K.L., Hardy B., eds. Rice is life: scientific perspectives for the 21st century. Proceedings of the World Rice Research Conference held in Tokyo and Tsukuba, Japan, 4–7 November 2004. Los Baños (Philippines): International Rice Research InstituteInternational Rice Research InstituteThe International Rice Research Institute is an international NGO. Its headquarters are in Los Baños, Laguna, Philippines, and it has offices in sixteen countries...
, pp. 21–23. - The next 50 Years: Fatal discontinuities. Population and Development Review 31: 201-236; 2005.
- Improving efficiency and reducing waste in our food system. Environmental Sciences 1:17-26; 2004.