Our Changing Environment

Vaclav Smil is an ecologist interested in the interactions of environment, energy and food systems. His latest books are Energy Food Environment: Realities Myths Options (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987), Energy in China’s Modernization (Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 1988) and General Energetics (New York: John Wiley, forthcoming).