Author : M. R. De Montalembert
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO)
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 28,87 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Author : Jill Boberg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 44,5 MB
Release : 2017-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1351772651
This title was first published in 2000: Woodfuels in developing countries, particularly Africa, remain a basic need for urban households, who depend heavily on them for their energy needs. This work examines the confusion about the environmental and social impacts of woodfuel use, and the structure of informal sector woodfuel markets. Using data from a year of survey field work in Tanzania, the author questions assumptions of poorly functioning woodfuel markets and their impact on environment and society. Approaching the unregulated woodfuel markets as industrial organizations, the author uses a classic structure previously applied to developed markets in industrialized countries, to determine the competitiveness and efficiency of woodfuel markets. Results indicate well-functioning makets under most circumstances and the study details the variables which enhance market sustainability. The social and environmental implications of woodfuel use as it exists, and suggestions to policymakers for improvements to enhance the sustainability of the system and the environment, complete the study. The study should be useful for those interested in energy and environmental issues or informal markets (including agricultural markets) in developing countries, and to those interested in industrial organization as applied to the Third World.
Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 39,45 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789251011676
Presents estimates of production and consumption for softwoods and hardwoods in five product groups: sawnwood and sleepers, solidwood panels, reconstituted panels, other industrial products and pulps.
Author : Gerald Leach
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 49,4 MB
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1134050429
People scratching a living from parched land, women walking miles for scraps of firewood are both familiar images of Africa. But, in many places, people, with the help of governments and aid agencies, are putting the land into good shape, growing more food and creating a healthy cover of trees. This book joins the literature of hope by looking at these advances from the viewpoint of the energy crisis of the poor. This crisis can only be solved by going beyond the narrow confines of energy to consider all the needs of local people and the potential for change. Drawing on a wide range of case histories, the authors describe the gains in farming and forestry and woodfuel supply that have come about through this broader, people-centered approach. They also write about woodfuel prices, markets and other key elements of survival strategies for the cities. Huge efforts will be needed to recover from the failures of the past, but Leach and Mearns show that important lessons are at last being learned and that new roads to success can be mapped. Originally published in 1988
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Publisher :
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 37,14 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Electronic government information
ISBN :
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Publisher : Concept Publishing Company
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 24,70 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Fuelwood industry
ISBN :
Author : Ralph E.H. Sims
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 42,68 MB
Release : 2003-12-08
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0080527949
Bioenergy Options for a Cleaner Environment describes the biomass resource and its delivery. A panel of international experts describe the range of conversion technologies both commercially available and under development, and explore the technical, environmental and socio-economic barriers and benefits of using biomass in both developed and developing countries. - Covers a number of perspectives, taking the reader through the whole process from the bioenergy resource through conversion to fuel, to policy issues - World class Editor and contributors - Accessible and useful to those working in agriculture, forestry and planning, as well as energy researchers
Author : Baleshwar Thakur
Publisher : Concept Publishing Company
Page : 898 pages
File Size : 28,44 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Developing countries
ISBN : 9788180694028
v. 2. Population, resources and development -- v.3. Ecological degradation of land
Author : Joel S. Levine
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 38,45 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780262122023
Global Biomass Burning provides a convenient and current reference on such topics as the remote sensing of biomass burning from space, the geographical distribution of burning; the combustion products of burning in tropical, temperate, and boreal ecosystems; burning as a global source of atmospheric gases and particulates; the impact of biomass burning gases and particulates on global climate; and the role of biomass burning on biodiversity and past global extinctions."--Pub. desc.
Author : G.E. Wickens
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 539 pages
File Size : 36,87 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9401009694
The strength of this book is that it is written by someone who has spent a lifetime devoted to the science of economic botany. The author has brought together his vast experience in the field in Africa with his studies of arid land plants at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. The result is an informative and reliable text that covers a vast range of topics. It is also firmly based upon the author's research and interest in plant taxonomy and therefore fully acknowledges the importance of correct naming and classification in the field of science of economic botany. The coverage is of economic botany in its broadest sense. I was delighted to find such topics as ecophysiology, plant breeding, the environment and conservation are included in the text. This gives the book a much more comprehensive coverage than most other texts on the subject. I was also glad to see that the book covers the use of various organisms that are no longer considered part of the plant kingdom such as various species of fungi and algae. It is indeed a broad ranging book that will be of use to many people interested in the uses of plants and fungi. Economic botany is once again being given more prominence as a discipline because of its enormous relevance to both conservation and sustainable development. Those people involved in those topics shOUld find this a most useful resource.
