Key Issues in Energy Resource Allocation

Margaret Haswell

Chapter 4 in Energy for Subsistence, 1981, pp 62-75 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract One of the reasons cited by Durnin and Passmore1 why practical interest has grown in the subject of the rates at which the human body utilises energy is that in most countries the population is increasing rapidly and more food is needed. But how much?, they ask, and suggest in answer that this depends on the type of life future generations choose to lead, and on the extent to which new sources of power remove the necessity for manual work. Their writings are however from the perspective of the prosperous industrialised societies where ‘man’s eating times are determined by habit and custom. He is seldom really hungry. His breakfast, his midday and his evening meals, are ready for him usually at a fixed time and he eats them because the meals are prepared’.

Keywords: International Rice Research Institute; Fertiliser Input; Subsistence Economy; Human Energy; Tractor Power (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1981
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-05411-4_4

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