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Growth: From Microorganisms to Megacities

Door Vaclav Smil

Categorie
Economie & Management
Boeknummer
#421085-YE6
Titel
Growth: From Microorganisms to Megacities
Auteur
Smil, Vaclav
Boektype
Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij
The MIT Press
Jaar van uitgave
2019
ISBN10
0262042835
ISBN13
9780262042833
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Original white boards, illustrated with some photographs in b/w, figures/tables, 8vo.
Samenvatting
A systematic investigation of growth in nature and society, from tiny organisms to the trajectories of empires and civilizations. 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 childs 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... (Lees verder) 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.
Pagina's
634
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 17,50

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