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Energy Poverty - Global Challenges and Local Solutions (Hardcover)
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Energy Poverty - Global Challenges and Local Solutions (Hardcover)
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This edited volume looks at energy poverty, an issue whose pivotal
role in the fight for human development is only now being
recognised by policymakers. Nearly one quarter of humanity still
lacks access to electricity. Close to one third rely on traditional
fuels like firewood and cow dung for cooking, at great cost to
their health and welfare. While most prevalent in parts of Africa
and Asia, energy poverty is a global problem which concerns us all.
This book, which brings together economists, policymakers,
entrepreneurs, and other practitioners from all over the world, is
dedicated to a single goal: finding a solution to this haunting
problem. It is part history, part economics, part political
analysis, part business case review, and part field handbook. Part
One focuses on defining and measuring the problem and benchmarking
progress in solving it, an obvious prerequisite to any successful
energy-access policy. Part Two reviews past and current energy
access programs, with an eye towards finding out what worked and
what didn't and what can be replicated elsewhere. These case
reviews are told as seen on the ground - China's experience by top
Chinese officials and Africa's by African regulators and scholars.
Based in part on those cases, the book's last, more forward-looking
section aims to present practitioners with a tool kit, a menu of
options to speed up their efforts. The energy access agenda is
gaining traction at a time of rising concerns about climate change
and resource constraints. This book shows that bringing modern
energy to those who lack it not just a moral imperative, but will
likely benefit the world as a whole without harming the environment
or unduly stretching finite resources.
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