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  • Household Energy and the Poor in the Third World

    Series series Routledge Revivals
    This volume originated as a report given to the World Bank in 1978 on the household energy consumption of both the urban and rural poor in developing countries. Originally published in 1979, this title supplies alternatives for meeting the domestic energy needs of the poor in developing countries and looks at the results of experiments in introducing new forms of energy. This book is a valuable ... Read more

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  • Transport Energy: Determinants and Policy

    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Energy Economics
    Originally published in 1985, this volume examines the determinants of transport energy consumption and discusses policies which could modify rising transport energy consumption while still providing the transport services necessary for economic development. The first part of the volume contains an overview of trends in energy consumption followed by an investigation of the relationships ... Read more

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  • Trends in Energy Use in Industrial Societies

    An Overview

    by Joy Dunkerley ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Taken from a report for the Electric Power Research Institute, Joy Dunkerley’s study aims to clarify the relationship between energy consumption and economic output in industrialised countries. Originally published in 1980 and using data from 1972, this study uses cross-country comparisons of energy use to stress the importance of new supply options and measures of controlling energy use without ... Read more

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  • International Comparisons of Energy Consumption

    Edited by Joy Dunkerley ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Originally published in 1978, this report summarises the results of a workshop on why energy consumption is much higher in the United States than other industrialised countries with similar living standards. The papers included in the workshop make interesting comparisons between countries such as Japan and the United Kingdom and the United States, raising interesting questions about environmental ... Read more

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