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Harvesting the Biosphere

Hardcover • 2012 • English

Harvesting the Biosphere

By Vaclav Smil

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About the book

The biosphere -- the Earth's thin layer of life -- dates from nearly four billion years ago, when the first simple organisms appeared. Many species have exerted enormous influence on the biosphere's character and productivity, but none has transformed the Earth in so many ways and on such a scale as Homo sapiens. In Harvesting the Biosphere, Vaclav Smil offers an interdisciplinary and quantitative account of human claims on the biosphere's stores of living matter, from prehistory to the presen...Show more

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ISBN

9780262018562

Publisher

MIT Press

Published year

2012

Language

English

Original title

Harvesting the Biosphere

Format

Hardcover

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