Changing energy profiles and consumption patterns following electrification in five rural villages, South Africa

Madubansi, Mainza; Shackleton, Charlie M.

doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2005.10.011

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“…Our findings of patterns of firewood use mainly for cooking and heating, despite the availability of alternative energy methods, are in line with findings from Madubansi and Shackleton (2006) in the Bushbuckridge area further north along the Lebombo Mountain range in South Africa.…”

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Household Firewood Utilization Around the Hlathikulu Forest Reserve, South Africa

Vasicek¹,

Gaugris

2014

Ethnobot. Res. App.

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Household Firewood Utilization Around the Hlathikulu Forest Reserve, South Africa

Vasicek¹,

Gaugris

2014

Ethnobot. Res. App.

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“…Despite South African state efforts to protect and manage conservation landscapes, the legalistic and management frameworks put into place have not necessarily led to a decline in local community reliance on natural resources harvesting both within and outside of protected areas. 13 In some respects, consumptive resource reliance is increasingly pronounced in financially poor rural areas and includes local vulnerability reduction strategies such as collecting fuelwood for heating and cooking, with estimates of reliance on fuelwood as a primary energy source as high as 92% in Bushbuckridge (a town in the province of Mpumalanga) 14 , and up to 76% in rural Eastern Cape 15 . Harvesting of wild 'edibles' including marula fruits 16 , mopane worms and bushmeat 17 , is also commonplace.…”

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Perspectives of wild medicine harvesters from Cape Town, South Africa

Petersen¹,

Reid²,

Moll³

et al. 2017

S. Afr. J. Sci.

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Cape Town is a fast-growing cityscape in the Cape Floristic Region in South Africa with 24 formally protected conservation areas including the World Heritage Table Mountain National Park. These sites have been protected and managed as critical sites for local biodiversity, representing potentially one-third of all Cape Floristic Region flora species and 18% of South Africa’s plant diversity. Cape Town is also inhabited by a rapidly growing culturally and economically diverse citizenry with distinct and potentially conflicting perspectives on access to, and management of, local natural resources. In a qualitative study of 58 locally resident traditional healers of distinct cultural groups, we examined motivations underlying the generally illicit activity of harvesting of wild resources from Cape Town protected areas. Resource harvester motivations primarily link to local economic survival, health care and cultural links to particular resources and practices, ‘access for all’ outlooks, and wholesale profit-seeking perspectives. We describe these motivations, contrast them with the current formal, legal and institutional perspectives for biodiversity protection in the city, and propose managerial interventions that may improve sustainability of ongoing harvest activities.

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“…Demand-side methodologies have also shed light into rural offgrid energy transitions at the household and village level, finding them to be better explained by 'energy stacking' or 'energy webs' (where households use different energy sources for the same or multiple purposes) rather than linear transitions [11][12] [13]. In South Africa, research regarding appliance ownership and grid-electricity access and demand also demonstrated that ownership of electric appliances did not necessarily mean that they were used, or that if they were used, that they were powered by the grid (or in other places, by solar home systems) [8] [14].…”

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The Natural and Infrastructural Capital Elements of Potential Post-Electrification Wealth Creation in Kenya

Diego¹

2017

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While it is widely accepted that electricity is a "necessary but not sufficient condition" for development, there is little research that explores the conditions under which electrification might lead to wealth creation post-electrification. Using Kenya as a case study, this paper uses natural capital (NC) and infrastructural capital (IC) to compare the enabling environments of entrepreneur vs. government run off-grid electrification projects, explores the role that NC and IC can play in determining wealth creation post-electrification, and develops a microenterprise development (MED) index indicating regions in Kenya that could be well positioned for wealth creation (and thus, persistent demand) post-electrification. A comparison between the MED index and a nightlights GDP per capita proxy finds that their local differences are informative towards the management and use of local resources, suggests that a nightlights proxy could provide a large underestimate, and sheds light towards regions where the gap between achieved and unrealized potential may be large. We hypothesize that the large discrepancy between our MED index and the nightlights income proxy is due to an underestimate of economic activity by nightlights (most of the economic activity in rural areas happens during the day), the nature of the MED index being a measure of 'potential', and several other factors that could affect both variables such as local climate and environmental conditions, population stress on natural resources, quality of infrastructural capital (not only access), local corruption, and ethnic favoritism. We discuss these at length throughout our paper.

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Changing energy profiles and consumption patterns following electrification in five rural villages, South Africa

Cited by 110 publications

References 26 publications

Household Firewood Utilization Around the Hlathikulu Forest Reserve, South Africa

Household Firewood Utilization Around the Hlathikulu Forest Reserve, South Africa

Perspectives of wild medicine harvesters from Cape Town, South Africa

The Natural and Infrastructural Capital Elements of Potential Post-Electrification Wealth Creation in Kenya

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