Energy for Livelihoods: Putting people back into Africa's woodfuel crisis
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English
Published: January 1989
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ISBN: 9781843693246
Product code:6033IIED
The woodfuel 'crisis' of developing countries was 'discovered' in the mid 1970s at the time the world was gripped by the energy crisis that followed the oil price shocks of 1973-74. The scale of deforestation across the Third World was already recognised. As energy analysts and anthropologists began to pile up the evidence across the developing world about the huge scale of woodfuel use and the difficulties that millions seemed to be facing in getting enough wood as tree stocks declined, it seemed natural to regard both types of crisis as essentially similar.
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Mearns, R. and Leach, G.
(1989).
Energy for Livelihoods: Putting people back into Africa's woodfuel crisis.
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