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Smil, Vaclav.
Subjects
Civilization, Modern.
Technology and civilization.
Growth.
Human ecology.
Population.
Energy development.
Economic development.
Cities and towns -- Growth.
Urban ecology (Sociology)
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Smil, Vaclav.
Civilization, Modern.
Technology and civilization.
Growth.
Human ecology.
Population.
Energy development.
Economic development.
Cities and towns -- Growth.
Urban ecology (Sociology)
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Growth
: from
microorganisms
to
megacities
/ Vaclav Smil.
by
Smil, Vaclav.
The MIT Press, 2019.
Call #:
909.82 S641g
Subjects
Civilization, Modern.
Technology and civilization.
Growth
.
Human ecology.
Population.
Energy development.
Economic development.
Cities and towns --
Growth
.
Urban ecology (Sociology)
ISBN:
9780262042833 (hc.)
Description:
xxv, 634 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Trajectories: or common patterns of
growth
-- Nature: or
growth
of living matter -- Energies: or
growth
of primary and secondary converters -- Artifacts: or
growth
of man-made objects and their performances -- Populations, societies, economies: or
growth
of the most complex assemblies -- What comes after
growth
: or demise and continuity -- Coda.
Summary:
Growth
has been both an unspoken and an explicit aim of our individual and collective striving. It governs the lives of
microorganisms
and galaxies; it shapes the capabilities of our extraordinarily large brains and the fortunes of our economies.
Growth
is manifested in annual increments of continental crust, a rising gross domestic product, a child's
growth
chart, the spread of cancerous cells. In this magisterial book, Vaclav Smil offers systematic investigation of
growth
in nature and society, from tiny organisms to the trajectories of empires and civilizations. Smil takes readers from bacterial invasions through animal metabolisms to
megacities
and the global economy. He begins with organisms whose mature sizes range from microscopic to enormous, looking at disease-causing microbes, the cultivation of staple crops, and human
growth
from infancy to adulthood. He examines the
growth
of energy conversions and man-made objects that enable economic activities--developments that have been essential to civilization. Finally, he looks at
growth
in complex systems, beginning with the
growth
of human populations and proceeding to the
growth
of cities. He considers the challenges of tracing the
growth
of empires and civilizations, explaining that we can chart the
growth
of organisms across individual and evolutionary time, but that the progress of societies and economies, not so linear, encompasses both decline and renewal. The trajectory of modern civilization, driven by competing imperatives of material
growth
and biospheric limits, Smil tells us, remains uncertain.
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