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Author Yadama, Gautam N.

Title Fires, fuel & the fate of three billion : portraits of the energy impoverished / Gautam N. Yadama ; photographs by Mark Katzman ; with contributions from Pratim Biswas [and five others].

Publication Info. New York : Oxford University Press, [2013]
2013

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Description 1 online resource (157 pages) : colored illustrations
text rdacontent
computer rdamedia
online resource rdacarrier
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Foreword / Mark S. Wright, Chancellor, Washington University in St. Louis -- Prologue -- The energy impoverished : seeking a greater understanding of a complex and wicked problem -- Narrative one: women, wood, and burning -- Patchwork lives in the Satkosia Gorge -- Narrative two: land & living -- The paradox of Kutch -- Narrative three: stalled by tradition -- Energy on the islands of Brahmaputra -- Narrative four: cause & effect -- Feedback loops in andhra pradesh and rajasthan -- Narrative five: searching for agency -- The power of people and communities -- Epilogue -- Endnotes -- Acknowledgements.
Note Description based on print version record.
Subject Poor families -- India.
Fuel -- India.
Household appliances -- Energy conservation -- India.
Sex role -- India.
Women -- India -- Social conditions.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Biswas, Pratim.
Added Title Fires, fuel and the fate of three billion : portraits of the energy impoverished
Other Form: Print version: Yadama, Gautam N. Fires, fuel & the fate of three billion : portraits of the energy impoverished. New York : Oxford University Press, [2013] 156 pages 9780199336678 (DLC) 2013017004
ISBN 9780199336678
9780199336685 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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