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Showing 1 to 20 of 53 for “"Firewood"”.
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The West Virginia Friends of Firewood Network: Engaging with and exploring the practices of firewood producers
Firewood is the oldest source of energy for cooking and home heating and remains a primary heating source for half of the world's population, yet the industry remains relatively undocumented and immature both in developing and technologically advanced countries. Firewood is an environmentally …
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Emission quantification associated with firewood usage: A case study of Mangondi village in Limpopo Province, South Africa.
… The aim of this study is to quantify the use of firewood as a source of energy in Mangondi village, a rural village in the Limpopo Province, South Africa. This study employed structured questionnaires and face-to-face interview to gather required information, to identify preferred tree species …
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Emission quantification associated with firewood usage: A case study of Mangondi village in Limpopo Province, South Africa
For a long time, firewood has been used as an affordable source of energy, available for cooking, lighting, and heating. Firewood combusted using informal stoves which are not properly designed are characterized by not having regulatory control facilities to achieve complete combustion, hence, …
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Evaluating the feasibility of improvement thinnings for fuelwood for private non-industrial landowners in Virginia
… included the market price for both firewood and firewood stumpage. Two cases were analyzed using discounted cash flows, the first considered the landowner as a firewood consumer. The results of this portion indicated that at low haul distances (< 15 miles) and low opportunity costs …
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An investigation into the challenges and the management of firewood scacity on rural livelihood in Limpopo Province, Vhembe District: a case study of Nweli Village
… faced by communities who receive scarcity of firewood on their livelihoods. Random and purposive samplings were used for the selection of sample for the study. Both primary and secondary data were used for analysis in this study. Secondary data were obtained from government publication, …
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Mass Matters
… enumerable objects such as furniture, firewood, aspirin, bacon). The goal of the present work is to evaluate the syntactic feature account against the meaning account by assessing how mass nouns impact verb number in grammatical agreement. Participants repeated and completed sentence …
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Land use intensity and trees on farms in Malawi
… for cultivation and the increased demand for firewood, timber and other woody resources, with rural households historically obtaining most of their complementary inputs and saleable commodities from nearby areas of forest (Arnold, 1997a). Despite this increasing pressure, woodlands are not …
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The environmental qualities of lowcost housing schemes: A case study of the environment of a typical superblock at Hanover Park, Phillip, Cape, in February, 1973
… in the absence of hard roads. Overgrazing and firewood collection upset the delicate natural ecology. The removal of the Mediterranean-type flora resulted in shifting sands of the true desert.
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Forest cover change and its effects on the dependent local communities in Masese local forest reserve Sesheke district
… of association between distance and amount of firewood used; and distance and amount of money spent buying building materials. The study revealed that there was significant correlation between: (i) distance covered to collect firewood and amount of firewood used per household at a correlation …
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Forest cover change and its effects on the dependent local communities in Masese local forest reserve Sesheke district
… of association between distance and amount of firewood used; and distance and amount of money spent buying building materials. The study revealed that there was significant correlation between: (i) distance covered to collect firewood and amount of firewood used per household at a correlation …
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The influence of size and density of the Camelthorn (Acacia erioloba Meyer) on its keystone role in the Xeric Kalahari
… on semi-arid and arid Kalahari sands) for firewood has also impacted habitat structure. Large trees are important in the Kalahari ecosystem because they provide shade, nesting and foraging sites for birds and mammals, as well as microhabitats that facilitate the existence of a suite of …
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The ethno-ecological assessment of Cassia abbreviata Oliv. at Matsa village, Limpopo province, South Africa
… younger people. Other use categories included firewood, furniture and joinery production and shade for people in the area. Awareness on the importance of the species should therefore be created amongst the people, especially the young ones. Understanding the ethnobotanical knowledge of …
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The colonisation of fynbos and disturbed sites by indigenous forest communities in the Southern Cape
… Although these species are useful timber and firewood species, they tend to establish themselves on disturbed patches in the indigenous forest and suppress the surrounding forest • trees. The present policy of the Directorate of Forestry and Environmental Conservation of the Department of …
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Modular Plancha Cookstove Design for Capacity Building in Santa Catarina, Guatemala
Indoor air pollution from cooking on inefficient firewood cookstoves and open fires leads to 3.2 million premature deaths every year (World Health Organization, 2022). In Santa Catarina Palopó, Guatemala, women spend much of their time cooking and primarily use wood fuel, which disproportionately …
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The Impact of Gender Roles on Girls Participation in Primary Education in Bunda District
… forcing girls to fetch water and collect firewood for teachers’ use at school. Furthermore, the study also discovered that cultural practices and social values such as betrothal and unyago (initiation) ceremonies affect female students performance, causes girls’ poor attendance, dropout, …
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Returning the Commons: Resource Access and Environmental Governance in San Luis, Colorado
… use" of pastures and forests for grazing, firewood, and timber. Based on roughly 15 months of ethnographic research in collaboration with the Land Rights Council and based in San Luis, CO, this dissertation examines struggles to access, use, and govern the commons from the 1860s to 2011. …
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Impact of School Feeding Program on Access to Primary School Education in Chamwino
… money for graining maize, collecting firewood, constructing infrastructures and paying cookers and watchman. Several mechanisms were used to mobilize the parents such as parents meeting, village by-laws and awereness given through community development officers. The study still …
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Changes in the seasonal activity of bats occuring in the Kunene region, Namibia: Influence of environmental factors
… to overgrazing and denudation of large trees for firewood. Therefore long-term monitoring of bat activity in the Kunene Region is important where environmental conditions may be extreme and variable.
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The Makaa Project : co-design, performance testing, and techno-economics to improve a Ugandan charcoal cookstove
… has a very high reliance on solid fuels such as firewood and charcoal. These solid fuels are used in conjunction with a variety of cooking methods, ranging from three stone fires to improved cookstoves. Appropriate Energy Saving Technologies (AEST) is a social business enterprise that …
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Assessment of nutraceutical attributes of selected wild edible fruit plants used by Vhavenda people of the Thulamela Local Municipality
… showed the use of wild edible fruit plants as firewood because 10 out of 39 were mentioned for this use. In this study the UHPLC-qTOF-MS/MS-based in source collision induced dissociation method was utilized to generate fragmentation data to assist in the differentiation of closely related …
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