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Publisher: World Health Organization
ISBN: 9240038116
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 51
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WHO has developed a repository of recent policies that have been implemented to support transitions to cleaner household fuels. This Household Energy Policy Repository is part of the Clean Household Energy Solutions Toolkit (CHEST), which is designed to facilitate implementation of the WHO Guidelines for Indoor Air Quality: Household Fuel Combustion (2014). The Repository serves as a clearinghouse for national, regional, and local policies, regulations, and legislation promoting cleaner household energy use with additional information on policy implementation, impacts, and any available independent evaluations of policy effectiveness.
Author: World Health Organization
Publisher: World Health Organization
ISBN: 9240064176
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 83
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Author: World Health Organization
Publisher: World Health Organization
ISBN: 9240070206
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 92
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Author: Elizabeth Cecelski
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317359801
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 120
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This volume originated as a report given to the World Bank in 1978 on the household energy consumption of both the urban and rural poor in developing countries. Originally published in 1979, this title supplies alternatives for meeting the domestic energy needs of the poor in developing countries and looks at the results of experiments in introducing new forms of energy. This book is a valuable resource for public policy makers and students interested in environmental studies and developmental studies.
Author: Kyran O'Sullivan
Publisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 0821368796
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 66
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"This paper will be of interest to those who are involved in household survey design, monitoring and evaluation, and the impact of energy on social and economic development. Among others, this includes a wide range of social scientists - economists, sociologists, anthropologists, and political scientists."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: John Byrne
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429560559
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 228
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Originally published in 1985. This volume on household energy conditions considers the energy crisis in the United States and offers an important appraisal of the future of energy consumption by families and the family's adaptations to decreasing energy availability. The chapters in the first section investigate the cultural dimensions of energy use at the household level, looking at attitudes and trends. The second section considers energy policy, especially conservation, with a special chapter on elderly households, while the third presents case studies and projections of the future patterns and changes in energy consumption. This is a fascinating snapshot of thinking on families and the effects of energy use.
Author: Douglas F. Barnes
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136528164
Category : House & Home
Languages : en
Pages : 157
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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 demonstrates, the movement away from traditional fuels has a strong socio-economic dimension, as poor people are the last to attain the benefits of using modern energy. The result is that health risks from the continued use of wood fuel fall most heavily on the poor, and indoor pollution from wood stoves has its greatest effect on women and children who cook and spend much more of their time indoors. Barnes, Krutilla, and Hyde provide the first worldwide assessment of the energy transition as it occurs in urban households, drawing upon data collected by the World Bank Energy Sector Management Assistance Programme (ESMAP). From 1984-2000, the program conducted over 25,000 household energy surveys in 45 cities spanning 12 countries and 3 continents. Additionally, GIS mapping software was used to compile a biomass database of vegetation patterns surrounding 34 cities. Using this rich set of geographic, biological, and socioeconomic data, the authors describe problems and policy options associated with each stage in the energy transition. The authors show how the poorest are most vulnerable to changes in energy markets and demonstrate how the collection of biomass fuel contributes to deforestation. Their book serves as an important contribution to development studies, and as a guide for policymakers hoping to encourage sustainable energy markets and an improved quality of life for growing urban populations.
Author: Pierpaolo MUDU
Publisher: World Health Organization
ISBN: 924006088X
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 80
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Author: Guy Hutton
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789241594806
Category : Households
Languages : en
Pages : 19
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Worldwide, more than 3 billion people cook with wood, dung, coal and other solid fuels on open fires or traditional stoves. The resulting indoor air pollution is responsible for more than 1.5 million deaths due to respiratory diseases annually U+2013 mostly of young children and their mothers. Effective solutions to reduce levels of indoor air pollution and to improve health do exist and include cleaner and more efficient fuels and improved stoves that burn solid fuels more efficiently and completely. The aim of the present study is to quantify the costs and benefits of selected household energy and health interventions for urban and rural populations at the global level and for 11 developing and middle-income WHO subregions. Three specific interventions (i.e. liquefied petroleum gas, ethanol, improved stove) are modelled under eight different scenarios of relevance to energy policy in the context of the Millennium Development Goals. This technical report describes the methods and data sources that form the basis for the present cost-benefit analysis and presents the results for eight intervention scenarios. The study concludes that the health and productivity gains far outweigh the overall cost of interventions.
Author: United States. National Energy Policy Development Group
Publisher: Group Publishing (Company)
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 176
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