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| Feeding the world: A challenge for the twenty-first century V Smil MIT press, 2001 | 947 | 2001 |
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| Energy Transitions: History, Requirements V Smil Prospects 1, 919-931, 2010 | 778 | 2010 |
| China's environmental crisis: an enquiry into the limits of National Development: an enquiry into the limits of National Development V Smil Routledge, 2016 | 722 | 2016 |
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| The bad earth: Environmental degradation in China V Smil Routledge, 2015 | 451 | 2015 |
| General energetics: energy in the biosphere and civilization V Smil Wiley, 1991 | 448 | 1991 |
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