Lester R. Brown, Plan B—Rescuing a Planet under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble

By U. Simonis. 2008

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Biofuels: Efficiency, Ethics, and Limits to Human Appropriation of Ecosystem Services (2010, background): “Brown (2003) states that if China will follow with the same growth rate of car ownership, assuming the same paved area per vehicle in China as in Europe and Japan (a car for every two persons), 640 million cars, would require paving nearly 13 million hectares—most of which is cropland.”
Circular economy in China – the environmental dimension of the harmonious society (2014, background): “His book is also published in China (Brown 2003).”
Regenerative, Semiclosed Systems: A Priority for Twenty-First-Century Agriculture (2007, background): “The higher level of soil organic matter in semiclosed systems , compared with open systems, creates greater sinks for both carbon (addressing greenhouse warming) and water (addressing the approaching global water shortage; Brown 2003).”
Medium pH and nitrate concentration effects on accumulation of triacylglycerol in two members of the chlorophyta (2011, background): “Advancement in second generation renewable biofuels is of great importance environmentally, as well as strategically (Bilgen et al. 2004; Brown 2006; Dukes 2003; Schenk et al. 2008).”