Household Energy and the Poor in the Third World

Elizabeth Cecelski, Joy Dunkerley, William Ramsay, Emmanuel Mbi

• Foreword; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction 2. Household Energy Consumption by the Poor in Developing Countries 3. Cost Factors in Renewable Sources 4. Cultural and Equity Constraints Conditioning Energy Usage 5. Institutional Approaches: Community Systems and Appropriate Technology Research; Appendix A Bibliography: Energy and Developing Countries; Appendix B Observations on Some Aspects of Energy Use in Cameroon, by Emmanuel Mbi; Appendix C Energy Consumption Definitions and Estimates