Reassessing the “energy ladder”: Household energy use in Maun, Botswana

By G. V. D. Horst, A. Hovorka. 2008

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Subfields: Energy Engineering and Power Technology, Pollution, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

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Citations in the corpus

The forbidden fuel: Charcoal, urban woodfuel demand and supply dynamics, community forest management and woodfuel policy in Malawi (2010, unknown): “However, recent findings suggest that factors other than income—energy preferences, convenience and insurance against unreliable supply—prevent complete energy transitions and produce energy mixes instead (e.g., Hiemstra-van der Horst and Hovorka, 2008; Masera et al., 2000).”
Energy justice for all? Rethinking Sustainable Development Goal 7 through struggles over traditional energy practices in Sierra Leone (2017, result): “…materialised and the notion that fuelwood harvesting causes mass deforestation has been thoroughly discredited by numerous subsequent studies (Arnold et al., 2006; Cline-Cole et al., 1990; Hiemstra-Van der Horst and Hovorka, 2008; Hiemstra-van der Horst and Hovorka, 2009; Leach and Mearns, 1988).”
Impact Analysis of Rural Electrification Projects in Sub-Saharan Africa (2012, result): “For instance Madubansi and Shackleton (2007) find that over an 11-year period after village electrification, fuel wood consumption had not changed in five South African villages, and Hiemstra-van der Horst and Hovorka (2008) report similar results in Botswana.”
Sustainable energy in Africa: A comprehensive data and policies review (2014, result): “However, it is worth noting that while the proportions between the various fuels other than traditional, and electricity, are closely related to the income, this is not always true with respect to the use of wood: according to Hiemstra and Hovorka [165], case studies across sub-Saharan Africa have r”
Determinants of household energy use in Bhutan (2014, background): “This is primarily for two reasons: (1) there are energy flows between rural and urban sectors in the form of trade in wood, oil, and gas; (2) urbanization influences both rural energy consumption and the energy situation in and around towns of developing countries [17,37].”
A global perspective on domestic energy deprivation: Overcoming the energy poverty-fuel poverty binary (2015, background): “For example, the use of traditional biomass is predicated upon ‘active decision making on the part of individual households according to their preferences and broader lifestyle considerations’ [168] in developing and developed countries alike.”
Dispelling common misconceptions to improve attitudes and policy outlook on charcoal in developing countries (2013, background): “Contrary to this hypothesis, however, charcoal users are not upgrading to kerosene, gas or electricity (fuels that are higher up the energy ladder) at the rate or scales expected (Hiemstra-van der Horst and Hovorka, 2008; Hosier and Dowd, 1987).”
The energy ladder: Theoretical myth or empirical truth? Results from a meta-analysis (2013, background): “For example, Hiemstra-van der Horst and Hovorka [12] find that in Maun, Botswana, despite common use of commercial alternatives, fuel wood is chosen by households across the income spectrum.”