Has the woodfuel crisis returned? Urban charcoal consumption in Tanzania and its implications to present and future forest availability

By T. Mwampamba. 2007

225 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Pollution, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

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In Economics and Econometrics

1. G. Timilsina
2. Sunil Malla
3. Klas Sander
4. A. Balmford
5. R. Turner
6. Simon L. Lewis
7. B. Fisher
8. U. Pascual

In Pollution

1. G. Timilsina
2. Sunil Malla
3. Klas Sander
4. Kim Jean Chaix
5. Adrián Ghilardi
6. T. Mwampamba

In Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

1. G. Timilsina
2. Sunil Malla
3. Klas Sander
4. R. Turner
5. Yue‐Jun Zhang
6. Yabin Da

Citations in the corpus

• The forbidden fuel: Charcoal, urban woodfuel demand and supply dynamics, community forest management and woodfuel policy in Malawi (2010, unknown): “Although woodfuel extraction per se did not cause significant deforestation and is potentially renewable unless followed by conversion to agriculture, as has been found in Mozambique, Tanzania and Zambia (SEI, 2002), and globally (Geist and Lambin, 2002), cycles of woodfuel extraction had by 2003 ch”
• Managing the Miombo Woodlands of Southern Africa: Policies, Incentives and Options for the Rural Poor (2010, unknown): “…are they often accurate: there is much variation in the levels and causes of deforestation across the region, and a poor understanding of cause and effect (Abbot and Homewood 1999; Chidumayo 2005a; - -3 Dewees 1995; Fisher and Shively 2007; Luoga et al. 2000;Mwampamba 2007; Sprague and Oyama 1999).”
• Implementation and opportunity costs of reducing deforestation and forest degradation in Tanzania (2011, background): “Instead, the most important non-agricultural use, in monetary terms, is charcoal productio”
• The importance of local forest benefits: Economic valuation of Non-Timber Forest Products in the Eastern Arc Mountains in Tanzania (2014, unknown): “Since current extraction rates in some areas are unlikely to be sustainable (Mwampamba, 2007) and might lead to depletion of forest stocks, effective sustainable forest management might be able to secure a minimum flow of harvestable NTFPs and local income in the longer term.”
• Dispelling common misconceptions to improve attitudes and policy outlook on charcoal in developing countries (2013, background): “In comparing the effect of six parameters that could affect estimates of forest availability for future charcoal production in Tanzania, Mwampamba (2007) found that production-related parameters such as variations in kiln efficiency and percent of forest regenerating had the largest effect on forest”
• The potential of agroforestry in the provision of sustainable woodfuel in sub-Saharan Africa (2014, background): “For example, Mwampamba [49] extrapolated urban charcoal demand in Tanzania derived from the 244 household data under different scenarios of kiln efficiencies and biomass stock rates, and predicted forests would deplete in next few decades in extreme scenarios.”
• Household cooking fuel choice and adoption of improved cookstoves in developing countries : a review (2014, background): “There is also growing concern of charcoal use for cooking and its environmental consequences including deforestation in many SSA countries (Mwampamba, 2007; Chidumayo and Gumbo, 2013).”