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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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |