Energy Services For The World S Poor

Author : Energy Sector Management Assistance Programme
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Energipolitik
ISBN : 0821347055

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Energy Services for the World's Poor by Energy Sector Management Assistance Programme Pdf

Access to efficient, sustainable energy services-and sectoral reforms that facilitate efficiency and improved access-have a key role to play in alleviating poverty in developing countries. The central objective of the Energy and Development Report 2000 will be to cast light on this linkage, and to inform and stimulate debate on the agenda for making energy policies and energy reforms increasingly effective in reaching low-income households. The focus of the Report is three-fold: * A review of the state of play and role of access to efficient, sustainable energy services in poverty alleviation, and the role of energy sector reforms in this context; * reform elements that can assist in improving service options for the poor, including a survey of promising technological and institutional developments in the sector, and case studies of promising innovative approaches; * a summary discussion of key policy instruments and challenges in implementing an increasingly "pro-poor" energy reform agenda.

Author : Penelope J. Brook,Suzanne Smith
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Energy industries
ISBN : 0821347055

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Energy Services for the World's Poor by Penelope J. Brook,Suzanne Smith Pdf

Author : Antoine Halff,Benjamin K. Sovacool,Jon Rozhon
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199682362

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Energy Poverty by Antoine Halff,Benjamin K. Sovacool,Jon Rozhon Pdf

An edited volume on energy poverty. Nearly one quarter of humanity still lacks access to electricity. Close to one third rely on traditional fuels like firewood and cow dung for cooking, at great cost to their health and welfare. The chapters explain the scope of the problem and suggest practical ways to fix it.

Author : Raffaella Bellanca,Ewan Bloomfield,Kavita Rai
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1780447620

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Delivering Energy for Development by Raffaella Bellanca,Ewan Bloomfield,Kavita Rai Pdf

Author : Benjamin K. Sovacool,Ira Martina Drupady
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317143741

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Energy Access, Poverty, and Development by Benjamin K. Sovacool,Ira Martina Drupady Pdf

This book showcases how small-scale renewable energy technologies such as solar panels, cookstoves, biogas digesters, microhydro units, and wind turbines are helping Asia respond to a daunting set of energy governance challenges. Using extensive original research this book offers a compendium of the most interesting renewable energy case studies over the last ten years from one of the most diverse regions in the world. Through an in-depth exploration of case studies in Bangladesh, China, India, Laos, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mongolia, Nepal, Papua New Guinea, and Sri Lanka, the authors highlight the applicability of different approaches and technologies and illuminates how household and commercial innovations occur (or fail to occur) within particular energy governance regimes. It also, uniquely, explores successful case studies alongside failures or "worst practice" examples that are often just as revealing as those that met their targets. Based on these successes and failures, the book presents twelve salient lessons for policymakers and practitioners wishing to expand energy access and raise standards of living in some of the world's poorest communities. It also develops an innovative framework consisting of 42 distinct factors that explain why some energy development interventions accomplish all of their goals while others languish to achieve any.

Author : Paola Velasco Herrejón,Breffní Lennon,Niall P. Dunphy
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781003805663

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Living with Energy Poverty by Paola Velasco Herrejón,Breffní Lennon,Niall P. Dunphy Pdf

Living with Energy Poverty: Perspectives from the Global North and South expands our collective understanding of energy poverty and deepens our recognition of the phenomenon by engaging with the lived experiences of energy-poor households across different contexts. Understanding the lived experience of energy poverty is an essential component in the design of any effort to alleviate what is fundamentally a deep-rooted, multi-faceted, wickedly complex problem. This requires a nuanced understanding of the causal factors and the research methods that can respond to the flexible spatial and temporal nature of the condition, as well as its wellbeing and justice implications. Drawing together the expertise and connectedness of authors from the Global South and North, this book presents novel approaches to understanding the often hidden forms of domestic energy deprivation. Case studies from 20 countries provide critical perspectives on this phenomenon while analysing the policy practices, government strategy, and sustainability implications of divergent manifestations. The book takes a multidimensional perspective, challenging the bias towards energy production and service provision, which often do not align with the aspirations and realities of energy households across global contexts, thus facilitating a useful dialogue on the nature of energy poverty. The book is a timely source for policymakers, practitioners, and scholars seeking fresh, diverse insights into the everyday reality of energy poverty and wanting to better understand the challenges a people-centred, just energy transition can present. Chapter 1 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license. Chapter 2 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license. Chapter 22 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2009-01-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264060258

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DAC Guidelines and Reference Series Natural Resources and Pro-Poor Growth The Economics and Politics by OECD Pdf

Natural capital constitutes a quarter of total wealth in low-income countries. This publication demonstrates that natural resources can contribute to growth, employment, exports and fiscal revenues and highlights the importance of policies encouraging the sustainable management of these resources.

Author : Lakshman Guruswamy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317647546

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International Energy and Poverty by Lakshman Guruswamy Pdf

Around 2.8 billion people globally, also known as the "Other Third" or "energy poor", have little or no access to beneficial energy that meets their needs for cooking, heating, water, sanitation, illumination, transportation, or basic mechanical power. This book uniquely integrates the hitherto segmented and fragmented approaches to the challenge of access to energy. It provides theoretical, philosophical and practical analysis of energy for the low energy (non-hydrocarbon based) Other Third of the world, and how the unmet needs of the energy poor might be satisfied. It comprehensively addresses the range of issues relating to energy justice and energy access for all, including affordable - sustainable energy technologies (ASETs). The book breaks new ground by crafting a unified and cohesive framework for analysis and action that explains the factual and socio-political phenomenon of the energy poor, and demonstrates why clean energy is a primary determinant of their human progress. This is a must-read for all scholars, students, professionals and policy makers working on energy policy, poverty, and sustainable energy technologies.

Author : Michael Aklin,Patrick Bayer,S.P. Harish,Johannes Urpelainen
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780262349314

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Escaping the Energy Poverty Trap by Michael Aklin,Patrick Bayer,S.P. Harish,Johannes Urpelainen Pdf

The first comprehensive political science account of energy poverty, arguing that governments can improve energy access for their citizens through appropriate policy design. In today's industrialized world, almost everything we do consumes energy. While industrialized countries enjoy all the amenities of modern energy, more than a billion people in the developing world still lack energy access. Why is energy poverty persistent in some countries and not in others? Offering the first comprehensive political science account of energy poverty, Escaping the Energy Poverty Trap explores why governments have or have not been able to lead in providing modern energy to their least advantaged citizens. Focusing on access to modern cooking fuels and household electrification, the authors develop a new political-economic theory that introduces government interest, institutional capacity, and local accountability as key determinants of energy access. They draw on case studies from India, East Asia, Africa, and Latin America to offer the optimistic conclusion that governments can improve institutional capacity and local accountability through appropriate policy design. Energy poverty is a policy problem, the authors assert, and engaging with it as such offers new opportunities not only for ensuring equal energy access, but also for political, economic, and environmental development.

Author : Bereket Kebede,Ikhupuleng Dube
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781848136601

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Energy Services for the Urban Poor in Africa by Bereket Kebede,Ikhupuleng Dube Pdf

Africa has been experiencing higher rates of urbanization than any other continent, and today about one-third of the continent‘s population live in urban areas. But studies of energy services for urban residents, especially the poor, are still rare. The supply of electricity to poor city dwellers has not kept pace with urbanisation: in 1970 some 40 million had no access to electricity; by the year 2000 there were over 100 million. The urban poor continue to rely on wood fuel, charcoal, kerosene and dung cakes for energy, with all their environmental drawbacks. This book examines the affordability of modern energy sources for the poor; the relevance of energy subsidies; the impact of subsidies on public finances; and how electricity tariffs affect the operations of small and medium enterprises, the main source of livelihood for the majority of the urban poor outside the formal economic sector.

Author : Asian Development Bank
Publisher : Asian Development Bank
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2010-10-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789290921387

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Attaining Access for All by Asian Development Bank Pdf

Universal access to safe, reliable energy is a necessary condition for providing the poor with safe water and sanitation, for maintaining adequate standards of living, and for achieving any of the Millennium Development Goals. The Asian Development Bank recognizes the importance of electricity and water access for the poor and has committed to providing such access by establishing the Energy for All and Water for All initiatives. While broad efforts aimed at regulatory reform and increasing energy and water access may be helpful, targeted interventions, measures, and approaches are often needed to ensure that the poor benefit from these efforts. This publication identifies specific infrastructure and utility service reform measures that can be taken to advance the interests of the poor.

Author : Dietrich Kebschull
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351301305

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Transforming Power by Dietrich Kebschull Pdf

In 1934, Lewis Mumford critiqued the industrial energy system as a key source of authoritarian economic and political tendencies in modern life. Recent debate continues to engage issues of energy authoritarianism, focusing on the contest between energy-driven globalization (the spread of energy deregulation and the simultaneous consolidation of the oil, coal, and gas industries) and the so-called "sustainable energy" strategy that celebrates the local and community scale characteristics of renewable energy. Including theoretical inquiries and case studies by distinguished writers, Transforming Power is divided into three parts: Energy, Environment, and Society; The Politics of Conventional Energy; and The Politics of Sustainable Energy. It interrogates current contemporary energy assumptions, exploring the reflexive relationship between energy, environment, and society, and examining energy as a social project. Some of these have promised a prosperous future founded upon technological advances that further modernize the modern energy system, such as "inherently safe" nuclear power, environmentally friendly coal gasification, and the advent of a wealthier, cleaner world powered by fuel cells; and the "green technologies," said by advocates to prefigure a revival of human scale development, local self-determination, and a commitment to ecological balance. br This volume offers a timely engagement of the social issues surrounding energy conflicts and contradictions. It will be of interest to policymakers, energy and environmental experts, sociologists, and historians of technology.

Author : Wael Al-Delaimy,Veerabhadran Ramanathan,Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-13
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9783030311254

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Health of People, Health of Planet and Our Responsibility by Wael Al-Delaimy,Veerabhadran Ramanathan,Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo Pdf

This open access book not only describes the challenges of climate disruption, but also presents solutions. The challenges described include air pollution, climate change, extreme weather, and related health impacts that range from heat stress, vector-borne diseases, food and water insecurity and chronic diseases to malnutrition and mental well-being. The influence of humans on climate change has been established through extensive published evidence and reports. However, the connections between climate change, the health of the planet and the impact on human health have not received the same level of attention. Therefore, the global focus on the public health impacts of climate change is a relatively recent area of interest. This focus is timely since scientists have concluded that changes in climate have led to new weather extremes such as floods, storms, heat waves, droughts and fires, in turn leading to more than 600,000 deaths and the displacement of nearly 4 billion people in the last 20 years. Previous work on the health impacts of climate change was limited mostly to epidemiologic approaches and outcomes and focused less on multidisciplinary, multi-faceted collaborations between physical scientists, public health researchers and policy makers. Further, there was little attention paid to faith-based and ethical approaches to the problem. The solutions and actions we explore in this book engage diverse sectors of civil society, faith leadership, and political leadership, all oriented by ethics, advocacy, and policy with a special focus on poor and vulnerable populations. The book highlights areas we think will resonate broadly with the public, faith leaders, researchers and students across disciplines including the humanities, and policy makers.

Author : John Ashworth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Developing countries
ISBN : UCR:31210024771964

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Renewable Energy Sources for the World's Poor by John Ashworth Pdf

Author : Alix Clark
Publisher : HSRC Press
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Energy policy
ISBN : 0796920877

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Energy Sustainability for South Africa's Poor by Alix Clark Pdf