Urban fuelwood demand and markets in a small town in South Africa: Livelihood vulnerability and alien plant control
| Autor: | M. I. Chauke, James Gambiza, Charlie M. Shackleton, F. Sutherland, J. Mentz, R. Jones, M. Matthew McConnachie |
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| Rok vydání: | 2006 |
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| Zdroj: | International Journal of Sustainable Development & World Ecology. 13:481-491 |
| ISSN: | 1745-2627 1350-4509 |
| Popis: | Fuelwood is the primary energy for most households throughout the developing world. With increasing urbanization and declining local availability of fuelwood, a growing proportion of households obtain their fuelwood by purchasing it. These fuelwood markets are the key nexus in supply and demand scenarios and can be potentially significant points for intervention to address energy security amongst the urban poor. This paper reports on the fuelwood demand and marketing in a small town in South Africa. Despite the availability of more modern fuels and state subsidization of electricity, fuelwood was still used by half the households. Annual demand was 1.2 t per household. Over half of the households bought their fuelwood requirements because local stocks were limited. Those households that did collect their own fuelwood were significantly poorer than households that purchased fuelwood, as well as households that did not use fuelwood at all. Fuelwood markets operated through 45-60 vendors who transported fuel... |
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