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Energy planning and wood balances
Author(s) -
Hosier Richard H.,
Boberg Jill,
Luhanga Matthew,
Mwandosya Mark
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
natural resources forum
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.646
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1477-8947
pISSN - 0165-0203
DOI - 10.1111/j.1477-8947.1990.tb00380.x
Subject(s) - economic shortage , work (physics) , natural resource economics , energy planning , woodland , simplicity , process (computing) , tanzania , energy (signal processing) , balance (ability) , business , environmental economics , environmental resource management , environmental planning , computer science , environmental science , economics , renewable energy , engineering , mathematics , ecology , philosophy , government (linguistics) , linguistics , biology , operating system , epistemology , mechanical engineering , medicine , statistics , electrical engineering , physical medicine and rehabilitation
Woodfuel balances are commonly used by energy planners in developing countries to determine the adequacy of woodfuel resources. Recently, critics have argued that wood balances are misleading in their simplicity, exaggerating both the severity of the woodfuel shortage and the need for planned interventions to solve that problem. This paper examines four different wood balances developed for Tanzania. While the four studies all indicate that areas with miombo woodlands are in the greatest wood surplus, the specific estimates for any given region may differ widely. Despite their shortcomings, energy planners need woodfuel balances to give an impression of the adequacy of woodfuel resources. However, if energy planning is to have any effect, these balances must represent the beginning, and not the end result, of the planning process. Planners must follow the wood‐energy balance analysis with work utilizing local people to solve local problems.

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