Global Catastrophes and Trends
the next fifty years
$77.77
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
13 September 2012
Summary
A wide-ranging, interdisciplinary look at global changes that may occur over the next fifty years-whether sudden and cataclysmic world-changing events or gradually unfolding trends.Fundamental change occurs most often in one of two ways- as a “fatal discontinuity,” a sudden catastrophic event that is potentially world changing, or as a persistent, gradual trend. Global catastrophes include volcanic eruptions, viral pandemics, wars, and large-scale terrorist attacks; trends are demographic, en…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262518222 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262518228 |
| Series: | The MIT Press |
| Author: | Vaclav Smil |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 13 September 2012 |
| Weight: | 499g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 178mm x 14mm |
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“I think Smil should probably be set as homework for every Member of Parliament, andthere will be a test later…” Dick Pountain The Political Quarterly
I think Smil should probably be set as homework for every Member of Parliament, and there will be a test later…
—Dick Pountain, The Political QuarterlyAbout 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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