Has the woodfuel crisis returned? Urban charcoal consumption in Tanzania and its implications to present and future forest availability

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• Publication year

  2007

• Venue

  Energy Policy

• Publication date

  2007-08-01

• Fields of study

  Geography, Economics, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1016/J.ENPOL.2007.02.010
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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