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Abstract
How are global forces impacting on local lifestyles? Where does the personal stand in relation to globalization? Global Forces and Local Life-Worlds explores these questions using a mixture of sociological and anthropological analysis and case study methods. Demonstrating the tensions between retaining cultural integrity in the face of the levelling processes associated with modernity, this book: locates the problems of globalization and localization in the appropriate anthropological and sociological dimensions; examines the relationship between culture and identity; and explores the varieties of modernity.
Table of Contents
Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
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Preface vii | |||
1 INTRODUCTION 1 | |||
The increasing demand for energy 1 | |||
The role of renewables 3 | |||
Renewable versus non-renewable - some issues 8 | |||
2 POWER FROM SOLAR ENERGY 11 | |||
Photovoltaics 11 | |||
Water pumping 19 | |||
Refrigeration of vaccines 26 | |||
Lighting 29 | |||
3 HEAT FROM SOLAR ENERGY 33 | |||
Distillation 33 | |||
Water heating 37 | |||
Drying 43 | |||
4 POWER FROM THE WIND 48 | |||
Wind energy conversion 48 | |||
Water pumping 52 | |||
Wind generators 55 | |||
5 WATER POWER 58 | |||
Micro-hydro 58 | |||
Hydraulic ram pumps 68 | |||
The water current turbine 74 | |||
6 BIOMASS 77 | |||
End uses of biomass 77 | |||
Processing technologies 79 | |||
Charcoal 79 | |||
Briquetting 82 | |||
Producer gas 84 | |||
Biogas as a fuel 84 | |||
Heat conversion 89 | |||
Stoves 89 | |||
Industrial combustion 92 | |||
Power for conversion 94 | |||
Producer gas for power 94 | |||
Steam engines 96 | |||
Stirling engines 97 | |||
ANNEXE I FURTHER INFORMATION 98 | |||
ANNEXE II EQUIPMENT SUPPLIERS AND | |||
MANUFACTURERS 102 | |||
ANNEXE III GLOSSARY 108 |