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DOI	10.1088/1748-9326/abaf1a
	African energy poverty: A moving target
	Munro P.G.; Samarakoon S.; van der Horst G.A.
发表日期	2020
ISSN	17489318
卷号	15 期号:10
英文摘要	Historically, ‘energy poverty’ in Sub-Saharan Africa has been understood in relatively static terms and its solutions largely understood as a modernist state-led project of expanding centralised distribution to achieve a coordinated ‘transition’ from traditional fuels. In recent decades, however, political economies of energy in the region have exhibited considerable dynamism, changing what energy poverty looks like. The rapid dissemination of mobile phones, for example, has meant that most households now require near daily access to some form of electricity, inducing creative local responses. As well, with increased Sino-African trade, a plethora of cheap lighting products such as dry-cell battery torches and small-scale solar products have become widely available, reducing consumer interest in kerosene lamps and fuel. Finally, charcoal has emerged as a key cooking fuel for growing urban populations—introducing a new/expanded source of rural revenue while disrupting a decades long official campaign to induce ‘transition’ from firewood to LPG. We demonstrate how these particular changes are occurring through the example of dynamics in Sierra Leone in West Africa. © 2020 The Author(s).
英文关键词	Africa; Batteries; Energy poverty; Fuelwood; Kerosene; Solar
语种	英语
scopus关键词	Charcoal; Economics; Fuels; Lighting; Consumer interests; Energy poverties; Lighting products; Local response; Political economy; Sub-saharan africa; Traditional fuels; Urban population; Liquefied petroleum gas; charcoal; consumption behavior; energy intensity; energy planning; energy storage; fuel consumption; literature review; poverty; solar power; Sierra Leone; Sub-Saharan Africa; West Africa
来源期刊	Environmental Research Letters
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/153606
作者单位	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia; Horizon Energy, Freetown, Sierra Leone
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Munro P.G.,Samarakoon S.,van der Horst G.A.. African energy poverty: A moving target[J],2020,15(10).
APA	Munro P.G.,Samarakoon S.,&van der Horst G.A..(2020).African energy poverty: A moving target.Environmental Research Letters,15(10).
MLA	Munro P.G.,et al."African energy poverty: A moving target".Environmental Research Letters 15.10(2020).