Vaclav Smil

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Tiede

Vaclav Smil on arvostettu tiedemies ja akateemikko, jolla on asiantuntemusta energiassa, ympäristötieteissä ja monitieteellisessä tutkimuksessa.
Hän suoritti tohtorintutkintonsa maantieteessä Pennsylvanian osavaltion yliopistossa ja on valmistunut Prahan Kaarlen yliopistosta.
Smil on Manitoban yliopiston emeritusprofessori ja Kanadan kuninkaallisen seuran jäsen.
Hänen työnsä on tuonut hänelle tunnustusta yhtenä Foreign Policyn vuoden 2010 sadasta merkittävimmästä globaalista ajattelijasta.
Smil tunnetaan tietoon perustuvasta lähestymistavastaan monimutkaisten globaalien kysymysten analysoinnissa, erityisesti energia- ja ympäristötutkimuksissa.
Hänen lukuisat julkaisunsa ovat tehneet hänestä arvostetun äänen teknologiaa, resursseja ja kestävyyttä koskevissa keskusteluissa.

Kirjailijan teokset: Vaclav Smil

Miten maailma todella toimii

kirjoittanut Vaclav Smil • 2022

Both doomers and utopians skip the same thing: modern civilization's staggering material scale.

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⚡ Energy Systems 🏭 Industrial Ecology 🌾 Global Food Systems

Miten maailma todella toimii

Both doomers and utopians skip the same thing: modern civilization's staggering material scale.

kirjoittanut Vaclav Smil 2022 336 sivua

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⚡ Energy Systems 🏭 Industrial Ecology 🌾 Global Food Systems

Numbers Don't Lie

kirjoittanut Vaclav Smil • 2020

Your smartphone costs the planet as much as a car. 71 data points that rewrite modern life.

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🔋 Energy Transitions 👴 Demographic Shifts 🌽 Food Systems

Numbers Don't Lie

Your smartphone costs the planet as much as a car. 71 data points that rewrite modern life.

kirjoittanut Vaclav Smil 2020 384 sivua

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🔋 Energy Transitions 👴 Demographic Shifts 🌽 Food Systems

Energy and Civilization

kirjoittanut Vaclav Smil • 2017

A week of American energy use matches a year of Nigerian. The history behind that gap.

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⚡ Energy History ⚙️ History Of Technology 🏭 Industrial Revolution

Energy and Civilization

A week of American energy use matches a year of Nigerian. The history behind that gap.

kirjoittanut Vaclav Smil 2017 552 sivua

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⚡ Energy History ⚙️ History Of Technology 🏭 Industrial Revolution

Invention and Innovation

kirjoittanut Vaclav Smil • 2023

Moore's Law is an outlier. Everywhere else, innovation crawls, stumbles, or backfires.

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🛠️ History Of Technology 🔍 Innovation Myths ⚠️ Unintended Consequences

Invention and Innovation

Moore's Law is an outlier. Everywhere else, innovation crawls, stumbles, or backfires.

kirjoittanut Vaclav Smil 2023 225 sivua

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🛠️ History Of Technology 🔍 Innovation Myths ⚠️ Unintended Consequences

Growth

kirjoittanut Vaclav Smil • 2019

The math of growth is the same everywhere: a curve that bends toward limits, not infinity.

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🌍 Limits To Growth 📈 Scaling Laws ⚡ Energy History

Growth

The math of growth is the same everywhere: a curve that bends toward limits, not infinity.

kirjoittanut Vaclav Smil 2019 664 sivua

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🌍 Limits To Growth 📈 Scaling Laws ⚡ Energy History

How to Feed the World

kirjoittanut Vaclav Smil • 2024

Why twenty crops feed humanity, photosynthesis wastes most energy, and incremental fixes beat hype.

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🥘 Food Systems 🌱 Sustainable Agriculture 🔬 Nutrition Science

How to Feed the World

Why twenty crops feed humanity, photosynthesis wastes most energy, and incremental fixes beat hype.

kirjoittanut Vaclav Smil 2024 272 sivua

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🥘 Food Systems 🌱 Sustainable Agriculture 🔬 Nutrition Science

Should We Eat Meat?

kirjoittanut Vaclav Smil • 2013

Meat grew our brains. Its modern scale now threatens the planet. A quantified middle path.

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🏭 Industrial Agriculture 🌡️ Meat And Climate 🧬 Evolution Of Diet

Should We Eat Meat?

Meat grew our brains. Its modern scale now threatens the planet. A quantified middle path.

kirjoittanut Vaclav Smil 2013 282 sivua

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🏭 Industrial Agriculture 🌡️ Meat And Climate 🧬 Evolution Of Diet

Made in the USA

kirjoittanut Vaclav Smil • 2013

How the country that made a third of the planet's goods stopped making almost everything.

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🏛️ Economic History 🏭 American Industry ⚡ Energy Economics

Made in the USA

How the country that made a third of the planet's goods stopped making almost everything.

kirjoittanut Vaclav Smil 2013 263 sivua

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🏛️ Economic History 🏭 American Industry ⚡ Energy Economics

Speed

kirjoittanut Vaclav Smil • 2025

From geological drift to digital overdrive: how speed explains everything, and why it's breaking us.

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🚀 Tech Acceleration 🧩 Systems Thinking ⚡ Energy History

Speed

From geological drift to digital overdrive: how speed explains everything, and why it's breaking us.

kirjoittanut Vaclav Smil 2025 352 sivua

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🚀 Tech Acceleration 🧩 Systems Thinking ⚡ Energy History

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