Renewing Self-reliance in Rural Bangladesh Through Renewable Energy

ISBN-13: 9783659376443 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 488 str.

Hossain Amzad

Opis

Renewable energy is a most attractive option for Bangladesh where millions of people are getting out of poverty. This book explores the potential to achieve self-reliance using renewable energy technologies. It challenges accepted rationales for persisting poverty, energy crises and environmental degradation in Bangladesh, and questions the efficacy of well-meant international aid agency responses to Bangladeshi problems. The book challenges the western model of high consumption and dependence on centralised technologies arguing that a renewable energy technology system is the means to the achievement of self-reliance and a sustainable life style for village Bangladesh.

O autorze

Hossain, AmzadDr Amzad Hossain received an M.Com., an MA by research in religious studies from Deakin University, Australia and 2 PhDs in Anthropology and in Sustainability from Murdoch University, Australia. He is University Associate at Curtin University Sustainability Policy Institute, Australia. He is also guest teacher at Rajshahi University, Bangladesh.