Effect of fuelwood scarcity and socio-economic factors on household bio-based energy use and energy substitution in rural Ethiopia

Guta, Dawit Diriba

doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2014.09.017

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“…Accordingly, developing countries have the opportunity to borrow the advanced energy technologies from industrialized countries to make a "leapfrog" from less sophisticated energy technologies to modern, cleaner energy alternatives without the need to go through the pollutant energy sources such as coal, gas and so on (Marcotullio and Schulz 2007). In practical terms, however, a rapid and fast energy transition from traditional biomass and coal to electricity may be difficult to take place especially in remote communities of developing world (Zhang 2014;Guta 2014). The most successful "leapfrogging" has taken place recently in the mobile phone technology as the millions of people in developing countries have bypassed the landline technology and skipped directly to use of the mobile phone.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The former as the name implies conceptualizes energy choice as a linear step by step transition process with increase in income; energy users abandoning less efficient and cheap traditional biomass and shift to intermediate energy sources (charcoal and coal); and then to modern, safe and efficient energy sources like electricity (Hosier and Dowd 1987;Leach 1992). In contrast, the energy stacking states that there is no unique, simplistic and monotonic energy transition process; but energy consumers use multiple energy sources and their choice is dictated by multitude of socio-economic and cultural preferences (Guta 2014;Heltberg 2004;Masera and Navia 1997).…”

Section: Energy Ladder and Energy Stackingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Therefore, access to these critical services is linked strongly with human wellbeing, as people require water, food and energy to work, educate and live healthy lives. This combined with exponential population growth which has created an increasing pressure on natural resources requires policy actions for more efficient use of these scarce resources (Gerber, 2008 ;Hoff 2011;von Braun 2013, FAO 2014Guta 2014). …”

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“…There are rich debates on the energy transition concepts in the literature (Mirzabaev et al 2014;Guta 2014). The debate is on whether energy transition process follows the energy ladder or the energy stacking.…”

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“…Lack of clean, affordable and sustainable energy is linked with household and community welfare in multifaceted ways (Modi et al, 2005). Moreover, many low income and off-grid households in developing countries rely on traditional biomass (IEA 2013), which often may lead to women's drudgery, children's withdrawal from school, health hazards from indoor air pollution, deforestation, soil erosion, and loss of biodiversity and related negative impacts on ecology and food security (example, labor use trade-off between food production and fuelwood collection) and so on (Guta 2014;Mirzabaev et al 2014;Rasul 2014;van Els and Brasil 2012;Gerber, 2008;Nieuwenhout et al 2001;Rehfuess et al 2005). …”

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Decentralized Energy in Water-Energy-Food Security Nexus in Developing Countries: Case Studies on Successes and Failures

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. We would like to thank Prof. Joachim von Braun for his guidance and important suggestions. Terms of use: Documents inWe would also like to thank Dr. Manfred Denich and Dr. Nicolas Gerber for their insightful comments and suggestions on the paper. We also express our appreciation to Dr. Katharina Gallant for editorial assistance. AbstractAccess to modern energy is vital for sustainable development. In rural areas, decentralized energy solutions may play a significant role in reducing poverty, supporting community institutions and facilitating the generation of basic services such as communication, water access, education and health services. However, the majority of dwellers in off-grid communities in developing countries have little or no access to modern energy technologies, although they are endowed with a vast potential of renewable energy resources.Decentralized energy solutions could serve as an option to solve this energy access problem.However, the previous literature indicates that there are financial, technical, infrastructural, and institutional constraints to scale up decentralized energy options. This paper seeks to study the underlying factors behind the successes and failures of household-and community-based decentralized energy technologies through local case studies from different parts of the world, analyzed through the lenses of the Water-Energy-Food Security (WEF) nexus. First, the paper reviews the literature on the main benchmarks used to evaluate the success and failure of community-based energy. Second, the conceptual framework relating decentralized energy to the WEF nexus elements is briefly described.Thirdly, the methods and data used in the paper are described, followed by the presentation of the case studies. Lastly, the paper is concluded by drawing policy lessons and recommendations. Further empirical studies are recommended to quantitatively evaluate the impacts of decentralized energy solutions on the welfare of households and communities within the framework of the Water-Energy-Food nexus.

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Contributions of biomass/solid fuel burning to blood pressure modification in women: A systematic review and meta‐analysis

Dillon

Webster

Bisesi

2021

American J Hum Biol

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Objectives: Approximately 2½ billion people worldwide rely on solid/biomass fuel as fuel for cooking/heating the home. Environmental exposure to the smoke associated with biomass fuel burning has been associated respiratory diseases, cardiac disorders, and altered blood pressure. Therefore, a systematic review and meta-analysis was conducted to study this relationship across multiple studies. Methods: Searches were performed using PRISMA guidelines for articles using Web of Science, PubMed, Toxline, and Web of Science of peer reviewed papers with no beginning time restriction until February 2017. The search yielded 10 manuscripts after application of inclusion criteria, which encompassed 93 724 participants. Outcomes included (a) the proportion of people with a clinical diagnosis of hypertension in an exposed (vs. unexposed) population or (b) correlation coefficients examining degree of exposure and systolic/diastolic blood pressure. Results:The four studies reporting effect sizes for hypertension (N = 92 042) had a weighted mean effect size of r = .12 [−0.02, 0.27], z = 1.66, p = 0.097. The six studies reporting effect sizes for systolic and diastolic blood pressure (N = 1682) had weighted mean effect sizes of r = .15 [0.06, 0.24], p = 0.001, and r = .09 [0.03, 0.15], p = 0.002, respectively. Conclusion:These analyses revealed that there is a small-but-significant relationship between biomass fuel exposure and an increase in both systolic and diastolic blood pressure, but the relationship between biomass fuel and hypertension specifically remains unclear.

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Thermochemical Conversion of Biomass into Gaseous Fuel for Electricity Generation

Bhavirisetti

Tallapragada

Pasula

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Springer Proceedings in Energy

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Effect of fuelwood scarcity and socio-economic factors on household bio-based energy use and energy substitution in rural Ethiopia

Cited by 89 publications

References 53 publications

Decentralized Energy in Water-Energy-Food Security Nexus in Developing Countries: Case Studies on Successes and Failures

Decentralized Energy in Water-Energy-Food Security Nexus in Developing Countries: Case Studies on Successes and Failures

Contributions of biomass/solid fuel burning to blood pressure modification in women: A systematic review and meta‐analysis

Thermochemical Conversion of Biomass into Gaseous Fuel for Electricity Generation

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