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Fires, fuel, and the fate of three billion : portraits of the energy impoverished /

Inside small homes and huts throughout the developing world, billions of people burn fires in rudimentary stoves to prepare their meals and heat their homes. Besides providing heat, these stoves also release large amounts of dense black soot, which has a staggeringly negative impact on the health, e...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Yadama, Gautam N.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Oxford University Press, 2013.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword / Mark S. Wright, Chancellor, Washington University in St. Louis
  • Prologue
  • The energy impoverished : seeking a greater understanding of a complex and wicked problem
  • Narrative one: women, wood, and burning
  • Patchwork lives in the Satkosia Gorge
  • Narrative two: land & living
  • The paradox of Kutch
  • Narrative three: stalled by tradition
  • Energy on the islands of Brahmaputra
  • Narrative four: cause & effect
  • Feedback loops in andhra pradesh and rajasthan
  • Narrative five: searching for agency
  • The power of people and communities
  • Epilogue
  • Endnotes
  • Acknowledgements.