全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): Sweet nectar of the Gaia: lessons from Ethiopia's.

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来源类型	Article
规范类型	其他
DOI	10.1016/j.esd.2013.02.005
ISBN	0973-0826
	Sweet nectar of the Gaia: lessons from Ethiopia's.
	Rogers, Christopher; Sovacool, Benjamin K; Clarke, Shannon
发表日期	2013-06
出处	Energy for Sustainable Development
出版者	Elsevier Ltd
出版年	2013
页码	245-251
语种	英语
摘要	Though initiated only at smaller scales so far, “Project Gaia” offers an innovative Ethiopian model for using byproducts from the sugar industry to create an ethanol fuel that can be utilized by cleaner burning cookstoves, predominately internally displaced refugees. Backed by the Shell Foundation and a collection of NGOs, Project Gaia has distributed almost 4000 ethanol combusting stoves throughout refugee camps in Ethiopia. After summarizing the research methods utilized by the authors and introducing readers to the energy situation in Ethiopia, this study describes the history, benefits, and challenges of Project Gaia. Though the number of distributed stoves is small, they have lessened the burden of collecting fuelwood for Ethiopian refugees, reduced deforestation around refugee camps, displaced greenhouse gas emissions, and improved the health of cooks and children—all for roughly one-third the cost of kerosene, the most prevalent substitute fuel for cooking. However, if Project Gaia is to continue to deliver these benefits, a pernicious set of educational, political, and logistical barriers must be overcome. The final part of the study details these barriers, and it concludes by pointing out the significance of government consistency, technological appropriateness, and the coupling of energy services with commercial enterprises for efforts like Project Gaia.
URL	http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/58363/
来源智库	Science Policy Research Unit (United Kingdom)
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条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/468169
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Rogers, Christopher,Sovacool, Benjamin K,Clarke, Shannon. Sweet nectar of the Gaia: lessons from Ethiopia's.. 2013.