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Energy access, poverty, and development : the governance of small-scale renewable energy in developing Asia / by Benjamin Sovacool and Ira Martina Drupady.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sovacool, Benjamin K.
- Series:
- Ashgate Studies in Environmental Policy and Practice
- Ashgate studies in environmental policy and practice
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Renewable energy sources--Asia.
- Renewable energy sources.
- Small power production facilities--Government policy--Asia.
- Small power production facilities.
- Energy policy--Asia.
- Energy policy.
- Rural development--Asia.
- Rural development.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (329 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Surrey, England : Ashgate, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book showcases how small-scale renewable energy technologies such as solar panels, cookstoves, biogas digesters, microhydro units, and wind turbines are helping Asia respond to a daunting set of energy governance challenges. Using extensive original research this book offers a compendium of the most interesting renewable energy case studies over the last ten years from one of the most diverse regions in the world.
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; List of Abbreviations and Acronyms; List of Figures; List of Tables; Note on Authors; Foreword; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 2 The Benefits of Renewable Energy Access; 3 Grameen Shakti in Bangladesh; 4 The Renewable Energy Development Project in China; 5 The Rural Electrification Project in Laos; 6 The Rural Electricity Access Project in Mongolia; 7 The Rural Energy Development Project in Nepal; 8 The Energy Services Delivery Project in Sri Lanka; 9 The Village Energy Security Programme in India; 10 The Solar Home Systems Project in Indonesia
- 11 The Small Renewable Energy Power Program in Malaysia12 The Teachers Solar Lighting Project in Papua New Guinea; 13 Lessons Learned; 14 Conclusion; Appendix: List of Institutions Interviewed/Visited; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-315-57953-7
- 1-317-14374-4
- 1-317-14373-6
- 1-283-73886-4
- 1-4094-4114-8
- 9781315579535
- OCLC:
- 818846505
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