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Over 60 million people live in the SADCC countries; by 2000 AD the number will be over 100 million. The vast majority, city-dwellers as well as farmers, rely on wood fuel for domestic use. Supplies are diminishing as consumption grows. The quality of life is deteriorating yet further and the environment is more and more degraded. But these phenomena are not simply the consequence of a wood shortage which might be cured by some cropping and management policy. They flow from a complex network of causes each contributing in its way to growing poverty and want which has, as one obvious symptom, the shortage of fuel for life's basic purposes. The authors, by means of case studies, examine those causes throughout the nine SADCC countries and consider the policies that can be developed there which will not only help to alleviate the symptom but will help to prevent the imminent catastrophe which it represents. Originally published in 1988
Report on fuelwoodconsumption in rural communitys of developing countries - examines use of firewood and charcoal, role of rural women, economic implications and social implications of community fuelwood programmes (incl. Local level social participation), etc., and proposed guidelines to improve such programmes. Bibliography pp. 234 to 255.
Technical report on fuelwood shortages and fuel supply in developing countries - analyses the causes of deforestation, multiple usage of wood and attitudes towards forest establishment; describes tree farming, social forestry programmes and fuel saving stoves; discusses energy policies aiming at energy conservation. Photographs.
India's energy use dinamics. Review of sampling designs and methodologies for assessing consumption. Results of fuelwood studies: review and analysis.Trends. Identification of fuelwood hot spots. Policy responses to fuelwood issues. An approach to make fuelwood statistics reliable.
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