Reframing Energy Access: Insights from The Gambia (Routledge Focus on Environment and Sustainability) - Hardcover

Schiffer, Anne

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1138311693 ISBN 13: 9781138311695

Publisher: Routledge, 2020

Synopsis

This book investigates energy access through the lens of everyday energy practices in the Gambian community of Kartong.

Reframing Energy Access: Insights from The Gambia explores past, current and potential future modes of energy production and consumption to examine concepts such as energy leapfrogging and energy sufficiency. It argues that developments must be rooted in situated understanding of energy consumption to ensure sustainable and equitable access to modern energy services. Schiffer provides a uniquely long-term and holistic perspective into changing energy practices on the ground and the economic, political, environmental, technical and cultural factors that shape it.

Translating insights of energy in The Gambian context into broader themes and recommendations, this book will be of great interest to policy makers, researchers and practitioners who work in the fields of energy access, energy policy, renewable energy transitions, as well as African and sustainable development in general.

About this title

About the Author

Anne Schiffer is Senior Lecturer in the Leeds School of Arts, Leeds Beckett University, UK.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1138311693
• ISBN 13: 9781138311695
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 142