Vaclav Smil does interdisciplinary research on energy, environment, population, food and history of technical advances and on such overarching topics as growth, innovation, size, speed and efficiency. By January 2026, he published 51 books and more than 500 papers on these topics. He is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Manitoba, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (Science Academy), and a Member of the Order of Canada.
Oneworld Publications in London asked me to produce the third (revised and expanded) editions of Oil: A Beginner’s [...]
Following its publication in January 2026, Comment nourir le monde, the French translation of How to Feed the [...]
Michael Cembalest published Fighting Words, J.P.Morgan’s 16th Annual Energy Paper. I contributed the last four pages of it: [...]
The latest translations of my books include How to Feed the World in Czech, Japanese and Spanish; Size [...]
The latest translations of my books include Energy and Civilization in Italian and Polish; How the World Really [...]
