TY  - GEN
N2  - What makes the modern world work? The answer to this deceptively simple question lies in four 'grand transitions' of civilization - in populations, agriculture, energy, and economics - which have transformed the way we live. Now a fifth transition is underway: the environmental changes that will determine the success or eventual failure of the preceding transitions that have made the world we inhabit today.
AB  - What makes the modern world work? The answer to this deceptively simple question lies in four 'grand transitions' of civilization - in populations, agriculture, energy, and economics - which have transformed the way we live. Now a fifth transition is underway: the environmental changes that will determine the success or eventual failure of the preceding transitions that have made the world we inhabit today.
T1  - Grand transitions :how the modern world was made /
AU  - Smil, Vaclav,
CN  - Oxford Scholarship Online
CN  - CB357
ID  - 958619
KW  - Civilization, Modern
KW  - Technology and civilization
KW  - Population
KW  - Economic history.
KW  - Human ecology
KW  - History, Modern.
SN  - 9780197548516 
TI  - Grand transitions :how the modern world was made /
LK  - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190060664.001.0001
UR  - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190060664.001.0001
ER  -