Title: Energy and effort /
Authors: Harrison, G. A. 1927-
Publisher: Taylor & Francis,
Year: 1982
Subjects: Work Physiological aspects Congresses.; Energy metabolism Congresses; Work measurement Congresses.; Human biology Congresses.; Exertion congresses.; Energy Metabolism congresses.
Contents: Measurement of work and effort - physiological aspects / J.D. Nelms -- Measurement of mental effort : some theoretical and practical issues / I.D. Brown -- Determinants of working capacity / J.E. Cotes, J.W. Reed and I.L. Mortimore -- Energy expenditure, productivity and endemic disease / K.J. Collins -- The comparison of energy supply and energy need : a critique of energy requirements / J.P.W. Rivers and P.R. Payne -- Determinants of nutritional need / H. Weymes -- Meaning and constraints of energy intake studies in free-living populations / A. Ferro-Luzzi -- Human energy stores / N.G. Norgan -- Consumption-work decisions by producers and labourers / C. Bliss and N. Stern -- Time and affect : facets of the social anthropology of work / S. Wallman -- Resource distribution and foraging effort in hunter-gatherer subsistence / D.R. Harris -- Quality and quantity in agricultural work - Sierra Leone rice farming systems / P. Richards -- Energetics and ecological anthropology : some issues / P. Burnham -- The use of models in anticipating [e]ffects of change on human populations / R. Brookes Thomas et al. -- Energy use, food production and welfare : perspectives on the 'efficiency' of agricultural systems / T. Bayliss-Smith -- The comparative economics of agricultural systems / C.R.W. Spedding.