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Uncovering Biogas Outcomes: Tales of Hubris, Hope, and Failure From Southern Malawi
Natural Resources Forum, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The purpose of this article is to speak directly to biogas failure. Over the past two decades, immense amounts of money have been spent by African governments, private individuals, and most conspicuously, international aid agencies and donors, on countless biogas projects in every country on the continent.
Marc Kalina +4 more
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, 1967 Photograph of firewood being loaded for transportation to Amarillo, TX.
Heidlage, Robert F.
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Health impacts of public pawnshops in Industrialising Tokyo
Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract This study examines whether expanded credit access through low‐interest small loans relaxed liquidity constraints among poor households and improved early‐life health in industrialising Tokyo. Using ward‐level panel data for 1927–1935, this study shows that public pawnshop lending was associated with 4% and 5% reductions in infant and foetal ...
Tatsuki Inoue
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Acta Botânica Brasílica, 2006 O objetivo do presente estudo foi realizar um levantamento etnobotânico no município de Ingaí, MG, para se conhecer os usos que a população local atribui à vegetação nativa da região e investigar se tais usos se destinam à subsistência ou comercialização.
Rejane Tavares Botrel +4 more
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, 2015 We surveyed local people’s collection and use of non-timber forest products (NTFPs) as well as knowledge about the national park regulations and villagers’ perception about those regulations, in three villages in the West Java.
Sahab, Ahmad +8 more
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Archaeometry, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study evaluates the application of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations, integrated with controlled fire experiments, to investigate combustion processes in semi‐closed spaces. The framework enables systematic modeling of smoke dispersal, particulate transport, and hearth performance under variable morphologies and ventilation ...
Yafit Kedar
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, 1942 Two administrators, Emil Sekerak and Lorne Bell, gathering firewood for an outing taken by four camp workers.
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Boreas, EarlyView.Our knowledge of the Early Upper Palaeolithic occupation in northern central Europe is very limited, and recent research at the open‐air site of Friedrichsdorf‐Seulberg in Hesse, Germany, provides important new information on the Aurignacian. The site is rather small (26.5 m2) and spatial analysis identified a central hearth with two associated ...
Tilman Böckenförde +5 more
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The West Virginia Friends of Firewood Network: Engaging with and exploring the practices of firewood producers [PDF]
, 2019 Firewood is the oldest source of energy for cooking and home heating and remains a primary heating source for half of the world\u27s population, yet the industry remains relatively undocumented and immature both in developing and technologically advanced
Basham, Elizabeth
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Results of decreasing cost of local firewood.
, 2014 Decrease cost of local firewood: n = 0.1, f = 1, σ = 0.1 where a) number of susceptible trees as a function of time with Cl = $2.25; b) number of infested trees as a function of time with Cl = $2.25; c) proportion of local firewood strategists as a ...
Jacob Cecile (5658733) +3 more
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