Fires, Fuel, and the Fate of 3 Billion
The State of the Energy Impoverished
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 12 December 2013
- ISBN 9780199336678
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages152 pages
- Size 249x282x20 mm
- Weight 987 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Fires, Fuel, and the Fate of 3 Billion examines the complex nexus of issues at play in the developing world's use of crude cookstoves -- factors such as poverty, energy, environment, and gender inequality. This multidisciplinary work aims to prompt new awareness of a wicked problem: how families can depend on, and be plagued by, crude cookstoves.
MoreLong description:
Inside small homes and huts throughout the developing world, billions of people burn fires in rudimentary stoves to prepare their meals and heat their homes. Besides providing heat, these stoves also release large amounts of dense black soot, which has a staggeringly negative impact on the health, ecosystems, and advancement of the poor in the developing world.
Fires, Fuel, and the Fate of 3 Billion examines the complex nexus of issues at play in the developing world's use of crude cookstoves -- factors such as poverty, energy, environment, and gender inequality. Melding succinct prose, scientific synthesis, and unforgettable images of communities in rural India, this multidisciplinary work aims to prompt new awareness of a wicked problem: how families can depend on, and be plagued by, crude cookstoves.
What is clear in this visual and scientific treatise is the fact this is not simply a problem of rudimentary stoves; it is a symptom of energy insecurity. The images, narratives, and illustrated scientific data make this book an urgent call to better understand and address energy poverty and household air pollution around the globe.
Table of Contents:
Foreword by Kandeh Yumkella
Foreword by Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton
Prologue
The Energy Impoverished: Seeking a Greater Understanding of a Complex and Wicked Problem
Narrative One: Women, Wood & Burning
Patchwork Lives in the Satkosia Gorge
Narrative Two: Land & Living
The Paradox of Kutch
Narrative Three: Stalled by Tradition
Energy on the Islands of Brahmaputra
Narrative Four: Cause & Effect
Feedback Loops in Andhra Pradesh and Rajasthan
Narrative Five: Searching for Agency
Power of People and Communities
Epilogue
Endnotes
Acknowledgments
