Vaclav Smil
Author, Professor, Scientist
Vaclav Smil is a Czech-Canadian scientist and policy analyst. He is Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Faculty of Environment at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
Books written by Vaclav Smil
- Energy Transitions
- Should We Eat Meat?
- Prime Movers of Globalization
- Making the Modern World: Materials and Dematerialization
- Growth
- Harvesting the Biosphere
- Why America Is Not a New Rome
- Energy and Civilization
- Energy Myths and Realities
- Creating the Twentieth Century
- The Earth's Biosphere
- Enriching the Earth
- Global Catastrophes and Trends
- Energy at the Crossroads
- Energies: An Illustrated Guide to the Biosphere and Civilization
- How the World Really Works
- Invention and Innovation
- How to Feed the World
- Numbers Don't Lie
- Energy: A Beginner's Guide
- Made in the USA: The Rise and Retreat of American Manufacturing
- Transforming the Twentieth Century: Technical Innovations and Their Consequences
- Oil: A Beginner's Guide
- Energy in Nature and Society: General Energetics of Complex Systems
- Feeding the World: A Challenge for the Twenty-First Century
- China's Past, China's Future: Energy, Food, Environment
- Cycles of Life: Civilization and the Biosphere
- Energy in World History
- China's Environmental Crisis: An Inquiry into the Limits of National Development
- Global Ecology: Environmental Change and Social Flexibility
- General Energetics: Energy in the Biosphere and Civilization
- Energy in China's Modernization: Advances and Limitations
- Biomass Energies: Resources, Links, Constraints
- Carbon Nitrogen Sulfur: Human Interference in Grand Biospheric Cycles