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Peer reviewedKouzminow, V. A. – Impact of Science on Society, 1979
Reviewed, in this editorial, are the present world energy situation and estimates of the prospects of supplying mankind with the amount of energy necessary for future socioeconomic development. Stressed is the role of different energy sources in the present and future energy balance of the world. (BT)
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Development, Economics, Energy
Peer reviewedBrown, Lester – Environment, 1980
Presented is a discussion of the possibility of a major shift of food production capacity to nonfood purposes. The attractions of an agriculturally-based alcohol fuel industry are discussed, as well as the problems of intense pressure on the earth's cropland. (Author/SA)
Descriptors: Agriculture, Developed Nations, Developing Nations, Energy
Peer reviewedCarioca, J. O. B.; And Others – Impact of Science on Society, 1987
Discusses how biomass in the form of fuelwood, crop residues, and animal dung can be converted into fuels such as biogas and ethanol to replace or supplement fossil fuels. Argues for future decentralized, integrated biomass energy development. (TW)
Descriptors: Alternative Energy Sources, Depleted Resources, Developing Nations, Ecological Factors
Download full textBrown, Lester R. – 1980
The paper explores how continuously expanding world demand for food, feed, and fuel is generating pressure to restructure agricultural land use. In addition, problems related to transfer of agricultural crop land to energy crops are discussed. The technology of energy crops has developed to the point where large-scale commercial production of…
Descriptors: Agriculture, Developed Nations, Developing Nations, Economic Development
Brown, Lester R. – 1983
After a generation of unprecedented economic growth, the world economy appears to be losing momentum. Double-digit inflation, high interest rates, and soaring deficits are often cited as causes of the global economic slowdown, but these are more symptom than cause. More fundamental is the depletion of the global resource base that allowed the…
Descriptors: Agricultural Production, Alternative Energy Sources, Developing Nations, Economic Change
Jorgensen, Joseph G.; And Others – 1978
Indian tribes in the western United States own a considerable portion of the nation's uranium, strippable coal, oil shale, geothermal, natural gas and petroleum reserves. Research and observation show that the impacts of energy development activities on Indian lands and peoples are overwhelming. Perhaps the most significant impacts are the…
Descriptors: American Indians, Culture Conflict, Developing Nations, Economic Development
Brown, Lester R.; And Others – 1984
The first of a series of annual reports for policy makers, this publication focuses on evaluating changes in the interplay between the world's changing resource base and the economic system. Following an overview, content is divided into 10 additional chapters covering population stabilization, the world's dependence on oil, soil conservation,…
Descriptors: Conservation (Environment), Depleted Resources, Developed Nations, Developing Nations
