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The Challenge of Rural Electrification
Strategies for Developing Countries
Douglas Barnes and his team of development experts provide an essential guide that can help improve the quality of life to the estimated 1.6 billion rural people in the world who are without electricity. The difficulties in bringing electricity to rural areas are formidable: Low population...
Published July 10th 2007 by RFF Press
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The Urban Household Energy Transition
Social and Environmental Impacts in the Developing World
As cities in developing countries grow and become more prosperous, energy use shifts from fuelwood to fuels like charcoal, kerosene, and coal, and, ultimately, to fuels such as liquid petroleum gas, and electricity. Energy use is not usually considered as a social issue. Yet, as this book...
Published July 17th 2005 by RFF Press