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...
In our modern world, more than 2 billion people still have no access to modern energy services. Without considerably improving the energy situatio...