In our modern world, more than 2 billion people still have no access to modern
energy services. Without considerably improving the energy situation in
developing countries the central Millennium Development Goal of halving
global poverty by 2015 will not be achieved because energy is vitally linked to
numerous important dimensions of development. When it comes to the
adverse impacts of unsustainable energy use in developing countries, the current
energy-poverty debate is mainly restricted to the rural or household level
of analysis. On the whole, little detailed investigations are made about...