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Agriculture. Losing the links between livestock and land

scientific article

All human life is here

scientific article published in Nature

America's Oil Imports: A Self-Inflicted Burden

Book Reviews

Book of numbers

scientific article published in Nature

Book of numbers

China: A Quantitative Comparison of Development, 1950-1970

scientific article published in 1979

Decarbonization Algebra: The COP26 Calls for Impossibly Steep Cuts in Carbon Emissions: Numbers Don't Lie

scientific article published in 2022

Detonator of the population explosion

scientific article published in Nature

Distributed Generation and Megacities: Are Renewables the Answer?

scientific article published in 2019

Energy and Civilization: A History

non-fiction book by Vaclav Smil about the history of energy

Energy and Civilization: A History

book edition

Energy at the Crossroads

scientific article published in 2003

Genius loci - The twentieth century was made in Budapest.

scientific article published in Nature

Global Warming and Future Fossil Fuel Consumption

scientific article published in 1989

Harvesting the Biosphere: The Human Impact

scientific article published on January 1, 2011

Improving Efficiency and Reducing Waste in Our Food System

scientific article published in 2004

International trade in meat: the tip of the pork chop

scientific article

Long-range energy forecasts are no more than fairy tales

scientific article published on 01 May 2008

Nitrogen and food production: proteins for human diets

scientific article

Nitrogen in crop production: An account of global flows

scientific article published in 1999

Numbers Don’t Lie

book by Vaclav Smil

P<scp>HOSPHORUS IN THE</scp> E<scp>NVIRONMENT</scp>: Natural Flows and Human Interferences

scientific article published on 27 July 2002

Reviews of Books

scientific article published in June 2008

Science in culture

Some unorthodox perspectives on agricultural biodiversity. The case of legume cultivation

scientific article published in 1997

The Earth's Biosphere: Evolution, Dynamics, and Change

book by Vaclav Smil

The Last Eighty Years: Continuities and Change

scientific article published in 2013

The long slow rise of solar and wind

scientific article published in January 2014

The temperature of everything

scientific article published in Nature

Thomas R.  Degregori. <i>The Environment, Our Natural Resources, and Modern Technology</i>. Ames: Iowa State University Press, 2002. Pp. xxvii+224. $54.99 (cloth).

scientific article published in 2003

Vacation reading

scientific article published in Nature

What We Need to Know about the Pace of Decarbonization

scholarly article published on Substantia in 2019

Worldwide transformation of diets, burdens of meat production and opportunities for novel food proteins

article

Energie: průvodce pro začátečníky

book edition published in 2018

Energie: průvodce pro začátečníky

book edition published in 2022

Globální katastrofy a trendy: příštích padesát let

book edition published in 2017

Jak se vyrábí dnešní svět: materiály a dematerializace

book edition published in 2017

Jak svět doopravdy funguje

book edition published in 2023

Ropa: průvodce pro začátečníky

book edition published in 2018

Ropa: průvodce pro začátečníky

book edition published in 2022

Velké proměny: jak se utvářel moderní svět

book edition published in 2022

Čísla nelžou: 71 věcí, které byste měli vědět o světě

book edition published in 2021