Worldwide, there is an increasing concern about reducing energy poverty, especially since the promotion of the Sustainable Development Goals in 2015 by the United Nations. In particular, goal 7, “Affordable and clean energy” ...

Background and objective: Pneumonia constitutes one of the major causes of worldwide mortality in young children. Poverty has been traditionally assigned as the underlying factor accounting for these trends. However, the ...

Improving access to modern fuels is essential in developing countries for reducing adverse human health and environmental impacts caused by traditional fuels. Fuels use in developing countries is heterogeneous across ...

The central problem addressed by this paper is the fuel poverty experienced in Chile as a result of poor thermal performance of dwellings, a problem commonly encountered throughout the country, even in new housing. The ...

Worldwide, there is an increasing concern about reducing energy poverty, especially since the promotion of the Sustainable Development Goals in 2015 by the United Nations. In particular, goal 7, “Affordable and clean energy” ...

Brazil has traditionally been one of the most important sugarcane and ethanol producers in the world producing fuel ethanol on a large scale starting since 1975. In the 1990s, however, competition for resources from the ...