Abstract
The fuelwood crisis has seriously increased in gravity since the 1979s. In many developing countries firewood contributes to 90% of the total energy consumption. By the year 2000, 2.4 milliard people will be using firewood more quickly than the trees can grow to supply it. It is people stricken with poverty that will suffer most under this situation. Although since 1978-80, 500 million US dollars have been spent on community forest projects, many of them have not been succesful, and it is only recently that connections between the firewood crisis and deforestation, between supply and demand, have become clear. In most countries the forests disappear because the people need arable land to grow food from. Different methods of supporting tree planting projects are described, as well as ways of helping communal forestry to function satisfacorily. Ovens where much less fuel wood is needed to produce the correct heat temperatures, have been introduced in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Yet many of these ovens break down. When planning for the future, village tree plantations, the possibility of planting more trees on private gorunds, the more rationalised use of manure and farm wastes as fertilizers for trees, stricter price control and social
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Eckholm, E, Foley, G, Barnard, G, and Timberlake, L.
Fuelwood: The energy crisis that won't go away. Braende - en vedvarende energikrise.
Denmark: N. p.,
1987.
Web.
Eckholm, E, Foley, G, Barnard, G, & Timberlake, L.
Fuelwood: The energy crisis that won't go away. Braende - en vedvarende energikrise.
Denmark.
Eckholm, E, Foley, G, Barnard, G, and Timberlake, L.
1987.
"Fuelwood: The energy crisis that won't go away. Braende - en vedvarende energikrise."
Denmark.
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title = {Fuelwood: The energy crisis that won't go away. Braende - en vedvarende energikrise}
author = {Eckholm, E, Foley, G, Barnard, G, and Timberlake, L}
abstractNote = {The fuelwood crisis has seriously increased in gravity since the 1979s. In many developing countries firewood contributes to 90% of the total energy consumption. By the year 2000, 2.4 milliard people will be using firewood more quickly than the trees can grow to supply it. It is people stricken with poverty that will suffer most under this situation. Although since 1978-80, 500 million US dollars have been spent on community forest projects, many of them have not been succesful, and it is only recently that connections between the firewood crisis and deforestation, between supply and demand, have become clear. In most countries the forests disappear because the people need arable land to grow food from. Different methods of supporting tree planting projects are described, as well as ways of helping communal forestry to function satisfacorily. Ovens where much less fuel wood is needed to produce the correct heat temperatures, have been introduced in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Yet many of these ovens break down. When planning for the future, village tree plantations, the possibility of planting more trees on private gorunds, the more rationalised use of manure and farm wastes as fertilizers for trees, stricter price control and social reform, should all be kept in mind. (SM).}
place = {Denmark}
year = {1987}
month = {Jan}
}
title = {Fuelwood: The energy crisis that won't go away. Braende - en vedvarende energikrise}
author = {Eckholm, E, Foley, G, Barnard, G, and Timberlake, L}
abstractNote = {The fuelwood crisis has seriously increased in gravity since the 1979s. In many developing countries firewood contributes to 90% of the total energy consumption. By the year 2000, 2.4 milliard people will be using firewood more quickly than the trees can grow to supply it. It is people stricken with poverty that will suffer most under this situation. Although since 1978-80, 500 million US dollars have been spent on community forest projects, many of them have not been succesful, and it is only recently that connections between the firewood crisis and deforestation, between supply and demand, have become clear. In most countries the forests disappear because the people need arable land to grow food from. Different methods of supporting tree planting projects are described, as well as ways of helping communal forestry to function satisfacorily. Ovens where much less fuel wood is needed to produce the correct heat temperatures, have been introduced in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Yet many of these ovens break down. When planning for the future, village tree plantations, the possibility of planting more trees on private gorunds, the more rationalised use of manure and farm wastes as fertilizers for trees, stricter price control and social reform, should all be kept in mind. (SM).}
place = {Denmark}
year = {1987}
month = {Jan}
}