3.1 China’s average food per capita availability, 1930s–1970s
4.1 Economic costs attributable to air and water pollution
4.2 Economic costs attributable to land use changes and soil degradation
A.2 Quantitative abbreviations
2.1 Growth of China’s fossil fuel extraction and hydroelectricity generation, 1950–2000
2.2 China’s sedimentary basins
2.3 Energy flows in China’s agroecosystem in 1974
2.4 China’s rural energy consumption
2.5 An efficient stove designed in Shandong’s Wenshang county in 1986
2.6 Long-term trends of energy intensities in the USA, Canada, UK and Japan, 1900–2000
2.7 Energy intensity of China’s economy, 1952–2000
3.1 Average per capita availability of food energy and dietary protein, 1950–1980
3.2 Areas annually affected by drought and flood in China, 1950–2000
3.3 Total and per capita grain production in China, 1950–1970
3.4 Officially reported and reconstructed mortality in China, 1950–1990
3.5 Trends in average supply of food energy in China, India and Japan, 1950–1983
3.6 Rising shares of synthetic fertilizers in China’s supply of agricultural nitrogen
3.7 China’s dietary transition, 1980–1995
3.8 China’s fluctuating grain harvests and average per capita grain supply, 1991–2001
3.9 Provincial differences between the availability of agricultural land
4.1 Past and future growth of China’s population, 1950–2050
4.2 Pattern of China’s average annual precipitation
4.3 Distribution of the annual share of summer rains
4.4 Expansion of China’s irrigated land, 1950–1990
4.5 The two South/North water-transfer routes under construction