Capacity for Work in the Tropics

K. J. Collins, Derek F. Roberts (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

318 Seiten

1988
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-0-521-30935-6 (ISBN)

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Working capacity is the physiological key to understanding man's ability, in technically less advanced communities, to exploit his environment, and hence to understanding his role in the ecological balance. In this volume the knowledge of working capacity in tropical populations is reviewed in a series of illustrative papers. Topics cover the measurement of working capacity in populations: the functional consequences of malnutrition; growth, size and muscular efficiency; ethnic differences in working capacity; energy; expenditure and endemic disease; and energy flow in tropical ecosystems. These papers and their ensuing discussions lead to a series of recommendations on studies to be incorporated in the Decade of the Tropics research programme of the International Union of Biological Sciences.

1. Measurement of working capacity in populations; 2. Functional consequences of malnutrition; 3. Growth stature and muscular efficiency; 4. Ethnic and socio-cultural differences in working capacity; 5. Energy expenditure and endemic disease; 6. Research models in tropical ecosystems.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	26.2.1988
Reihe/Serie	Society for the Study of Human Biology Symposium Series
Verlagsort	Cambridge
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	640 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Humanbiologie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
ISBN-10	0-521-30935-2 / 0521309352
ISBN-13	978-0-521-30935-6 / 9780521309356
Zustand	Neuware