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.
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 [...]
Penguin Books will publish Speed: How It Explains the World on November 27, 2025. This book, a companion [...]
The latest translations of my books include Grand Transitions in Korean, Growth and Numbers Don’t Lie in Turkish, [...]
The latest translations of my books include Energy and Civilization in Czech, How to Feed the World in [...]
Fifty years ago, in May 1975, I finished the first draft of my first book, and China’s Energy [...]
