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Fuel Supplies

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A praiseworthy feature of indigenous fuel supply systems is that they concentrate on biological materials such as wood and agricultural wastes. These fuels all have the merit of being carbon neutral when properly used. One difficulty that arises is that human population growth can cause the demand for these materials to outstrip their supply. There may also be indoor air pollution problems if wood is burned in unventilated houses and the objection can be made that the burden of firewood collection falls disproportionately on women. The view taken here is that solutions can be found to many of these problems and, that the merits of woodfuel systems are such, that it is worth persisting with them.

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Edington, J. (2017). Fuel Supplies. In: Indigenous Environmental Knowledge. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62491-4_5

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