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India's Firewood Crisis Re-examined [PDF]

Households in rural India are highly dependent on firewood as their main source of energy, partly because non-biofuels tend to be expensive. The prevailing view is therefore that, when faced with shortages of firewood in the village commons, such ...
Chopra, Neetu, Narain, Urvashi, van 't Veld, Klaas, Singh, Supriya, Gupta, Shreekant   +4 more
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When sharing becomes shameful: atmospheres of class formation in Namibia Quand le partage devient honteux : ambiances de formation de classes en Namibie

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Anthropologists have long shown that asking for food in times of need is morally valued in rural Namibia. Yet among the Damara pastoralists with whom I work, people now increasingly describe feeling shame (taob) when they ask for food. In this article, I trace this shift to the affective dynamics of social class formation.
Michael Schnegg
wiley   +1 more source

Predictive Mapping of Dwarf Shrub Vegetation in an Arid High Mountain Ecosystem Using Remote Sensing and Random Forests

Remote Sensing, 2014
In many arid mountains, dwarf shrubs represent the most important fodder and firewood resources; therefore, they are intensely used. For the Eastern Pamirs (Tajikistan), they are assumed to be overused.
Kim André Vanselow, Cyrus Samimi
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Poverty and firewood consumption : A case study of rural households in northern China [PDF]

This paper discusses the determinants of firewood consumption in a poor township in rural northern China, with a special focus on the relationship between households' economic wealth and firewood consumption.
Martin Fournier, Sylvie Démurger
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False kings and imagined protestants: why schismogenesis does not explain variation in inequality among Indigenous societies of the Pacific Coast Faux rois et protestants imaginaires: pourquoi la schismogenèse n'explique pas les variations des inégalités parmi les sociétés autochtones de la côte pacifique nord‐américaine

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Indigenous societies along the temperate Pacific coast of North America embody diverse cultural institutions. This variation is conventionally classified into two distinct cultural areas: the Northwest Coast (NWC) and California (CAL). Discussion of the environmental, material, social, and ideological variation in these societies has a long and ...
Eric Alden Smith, Brian F. Codding
wiley   +1 more source

Forest disappearance by firewood consumption in the Amazon estuary

Espacio y Desarrollo, 1998
Deforestation of flooded (várzea) and non-flooded (terra firme) forests caused by firewood consumption at tile factories (olaria) was investigated in Abaetetuba Island at the Amazon estuary.
Akio Tsuchiya, Mario Hiraoka
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MULTINOMIAL LOGIT ANALYSIS OF HOUSEHOLD COOKING FUEL CHOICE IN RURAL KENYA: A CASE OF KISUMU DISTRICT [PDF]

The study uses multinomial logit model to investigate the factors that determine household cooking fuel choice between firewood, charcoal, and kerosene in Kisumu, Kenya.
Fraser, Gavin C.G., Pundo, Moses O.
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Syphilis and ‘Sons of Empire’: The ‘Prostitute’ and Britain's Fighting Arm in Nineteenth ̵ Century Colonial Punjab

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The British army in India took great care to provide European troops with facilities for sexual relations while anxiously managing venereal disease. Examining archival evidence, political debates and medical discourse from the nineteenth century, this article examines the colonial military enterprise of regulated prostitution in colonial ...
Sameera Chauhan
wiley   +1 more source

Uso y conocimiento comunitario del algarrobo (Prosopis pallida) e implicaciones para la conservación del bosque seco peruano

Ciencias Ambientales, 2018
El algarrobo (Prosopis pallida Kunth) es la especie clave del bosque seco norteño de Perú, un ecosistema forestal muy amenazado. El algarrobo es únicamente adaptado para florecer en ambientes áridos, pero aun así su alcance en la costa peruana y ...
Johanna Depenthal, Laura S. Meitzner Yoder   +1 more
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Railroad Cars Loaded with Firewood

, 2013
A group of open railway cars loaded full of cut and split firewood, with a small group of people standing on tracks at rear of cars2.1.3 Current Latvian history 7 cultuere ( Pre-Post WWII), 2.0 Latvian Geography, Culture ...
Athabasca University (Creator)et al
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