Urban and rural household energy consumption and deforestation patterns in Zaire province, Northern Angola: A landscape approach
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Resumo: | Angola has been labelled a “petro-state”, since independence, due to its oil-wealth and the country’s economic dependence on its revenues. Considering that oil availability and price could be a factor reducing deforestation and forest degradation through accelerating energy-transition, our objective was to study the energy consumption patterns and the role of woody biomass as a source of income of rural villagers and urban poor dwellers practicing agriculture, living in one of the oil-rich provinces. We used a “people and pixels” approach, combining interviews with households’ heads with remote sensing analysis of land use/cover change. Our findings revealed that while kerosene is the main energy source for cooking and lighting in the city, in rural areas it is firewood and flashlights, respectively, and that the selling of firewood and/or charcoal is practiced by few households. Contrary to what has been reported about other Angolan regions and African countries, satellite imagery analysis showed that deforestation around Zaire province capital city and surrounding rural villages is comparatively small. Bearing in mind that the consumption of biomass for domestic household needs is reduced, other drivers of deforestation/forest degradation must be considered. Nonetheless, the high domestic use of kerosene contributes to the exhaustion of its limited global supplies and to increasing greenhouse gas emissions, disregarding the country’s potential to produce renewable energy |
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Urban and rural household energy consumption and deforestation patterns in Zaire province, Northern Angola: A landscape approachAfricahousehold energy consumptionrural and urban poorremote sensingfuelwooddeforestation driversAngola has been labelled a “petro-state”, since independence, due to its oil-wealth and the country’s economic dependence on its revenues. Considering that oil availability and price could be a factor reducing deforestation and forest degradation through accelerating energy-transition, our objective was to study the energy consumption patterns and the role of woody biomass as a source of income of rural villagers and urban poor dwellers practicing agriculture, living in one of the oil-rich provinces. We used a “people and pixels” approach, combining interviews with households’ heads with remote sensing analysis of land use/cover change. Our findings revealed that while kerosene is the main energy source for cooking and lighting in the city, in rural areas it is firewood and flashlights, respectively, and that the selling of firewood and/or charcoal is practiced by few households. Contrary to what has been reported about other Angolan regions and African countries, satellite imagery analysis showed that deforestation around Zaire province capital city and surrounding rural villages is comparatively small. Bearing in mind that the consumption of biomass for domestic household needs is reduced, other drivers of deforestation/forest degradation must be considered. Nonetheless, the high domestic use of kerosene contributes to the exhaustion of its limited global supplies and to increasing greenhouse gas emissions, disregarding the country’s potential to produce renewable energyElsevierRepositório da Universidade de LisboaTemudo, Marina PadrãoCabral, Ana I.R.Talhinhas, Pedro2022-02-11T15:48:56Z20202020-01-01T00:00:00Zinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/23465engApplied Geography 119 (2020) 102207https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeog.2020.102207info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAP2023-03-06T14:53:02Zoai:www.repository.utl.pt:10400.5/23465Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-19T17:07:42.093555Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse |
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Urban and rural household energy consumption and deforestation patterns in Zaire province, Northern Angola: A landscape approach |
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Urban and rural household energy consumption and deforestation patterns in Zaire province, Northern Angola: A landscape approach |
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Urban and rural household energy consumption and deforestation patterns in Zaire province, Northern Angola: A landscape approach Temudo, Marina Padrão Africa household energy consumption rural and urban poor remote sensing fuelwood deforestation drivers |
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Urban and rural household energy consumption and deforestation patterns in Zaire province, Northern Angola: A landscape approach |
title_full |
Urban and rural household energy consumption and deforestation patterns in Zaire province, Northern Angola: A landscape approach |
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Urban and rural household energy consumption and deforestation patterns in Zaire province, Northern Angola: A landscape approach |
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Urban and rural household energy consumption and deforestation patterns in Zaire province, Northern Angola: A landscape approach |
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Urban and rural household energy consumption and deforestation patterns in Zaire province, Northern Angola: A landscape approach |
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Temudo, Marina Padrão |
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Temudo, Marina Padrão Cabral, Ana I.R. Talhinhas, Pedro |
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Cabral, Ana I.R. Talhinhas, Pedro |
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Repositório da Universidade de Lisboa |
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Temudo, Marina Padrão Cabral, Ana I.R. Talhinhas, Pedro |
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Africa household energy consumption rural and urban poor remote sensing fuelwood deforestation drivers |
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Africa household energy consumption rural and urban poor remote sensing fuelwood deforestation drivers |
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Angola has been labelled a “petro-state”, since independence, due to its oil-wealth and the country’s economic dependence on its revenues. Considering that oil availability and price could be a factor reducing deforestation and forest degradation through accelerating energy-transition, our objective was to study the energy consumption patterns and the role of woody biomass as a source of income of rural villagers and urban poor dwellers practicing agriculture, living in one of the oil-rich provinces. We used a “people and pixels” approach, combining interviews with households’ heads with remote sensing analysis of land use/cover change. Our findings revealed that while kerosene is the main energy source for cooking and lighting in the city, in rural areas it is firewood and flashlights, respectively, and that the selling of firewood and/or charcoal is practiced by few households. Contrary to what has been reported about other Angolan regions and African countries, satellite imagery analysis showed that deforestation around Zaire province capital city and surrounding rural villages is comparatively small. Bearing in mind that the consumption of biomass for domestic household needs is reduced, other drivers of deforestation/forest degradation must be considered. Nonetheless, the high domestic use of kerosene contributes to the exhaustion of its limited global supplies and to increasing greenhouse gas emissions, disregarding the country’s potential to produce renewable energy |
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