Names: Smil, Vaclav. Title: Energy transitions: global and national perspectives/Vaclav Smil.
Description: Second edition.| Santa Barbara, California: Praeger, an imprint of ABC-CLIO …

The generic meaning of transitions—as passages from one condition or action to another—
is quite straightforward and hence readily understood, but adding the energy qualifier …

We present a global tabulation of black carbon (BC) and primary organic carbon (OC)
particles emitted from combustion. We include emissions from fossil fuels, biofuels, open …

Rapid growth in global CO2 emissions from fossil fuels and industry ceased in the past two
years, despite continued economic growth. Decreased coal use in China was largely …

A comprehensive, systematic, analytically unified, and interdisciplinary treatment of energy
in nature and society, from solar radiation and photosynthesis to our fossil fuelled civilization …

This chapter summarizes the methodology used to assess the burden of disease caused by
indoor air pollution from household use of solid fuels. Most research into and control of …

Intuitively, the concept of an Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) is relatively easy to
understand: pollution will initially increase with economic development but then decrease …

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 …

China has a population of 1.3 billion people which puts strain on her natural resources. This
volume, by one of the leading scholars on the earth's biosphere, is the result of a lifetime of …

Abstract Chinese coal consumption dropped 2.9% in 2014 according to preliminary official
statistics released in 2015. This was hailed as historic after China's meteoric growth in the …