Environment, Energy and Climate Change
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Gasifier Stoves
Advanced biomass stoves covers improvements developed over recent years for household cooking in developing countries. They are often referred to as gasifier stoves although not all of these stoves strictly gasify the fuel.
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Poor People's Energy Outlook 2013
In many countries poor people’s energy access is yet to be given sufficient priority and fails to be acknowledged as a key enabler in improving health, education, and other community services. As a contribution to creating a new energy narrative, the Poor people’s energy outlook (PPEO) highlights wh...
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Solar Photovoltaic Water Pumping
The advantages and disadvantages of solar water pumping are outlined in this document.
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Cable Selection in Small Off-grid Solar energy Installations
Ideally, voltage drop in a solar energy installation should be
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A Handbook of Small-scale Energy Technologies
Gaining access to modern forms of energy remains a crucial but under-recognised aspect of poverty reduction in the Global South. Practical Action has long been recognised as a leading authority on energy access, with decades of development programme and project experience worldwide upon which to bas...
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Climate Change and Threatened Communities
A. Peter Castro, Dan Taylor, David W. Brokensha
Global climate change disproportionately affects rural people and indigenous groups, but their rights, knowledge, and interests concerning it are generally unacknowledged. Shifts in precipitation, cloud cover, temperature, and other climatic patterns alter their livelihood pursuits and cultural land...
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Decentralized Energy Access and the Millennium Development Goals
Gwénaëlle Legros, Kamal Rijal, Bahareh Seyedi
Decentralized, off-grid power supplies such as micro hydropower can be perceived as expensive investments by poor countries like Nepal. Can these investments be justified by the benefits that electricity brings to villages in remote mountainous regions? This book describes research into the developm...
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Poor People's Energy Outlook 2012
Access to energy is essential for poor people to earn a decent living, to work their way out of the vicious cycle of poverty and subsistence. Whether you earn off the land, from a small business, through a job in a larger enterprise or through the supply of energy itself, energy is important. Poor P...
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Solar Thermal Energy in Nepal
Renewable energy practices in Nepal
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Designing and Building Mini and Micro Hydro Power Schemes
Luis Rodriguez, Teodoro Sanchez
Small hydro power installations have the potential to provide a renewable supply of energy to people in remote, hilly communities, far from the national gird. This book is based on the authors' considerable experience of installing hydroelectric schemes that produce up to 500kW for powering small co...