India's Firewood Crisis Re-examined
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- van 't Veld, Klaas & Narain, Urvashi & Gupta, Shreekant & Chopra, Neetu & Singh, Supriya, 2006. "India's Firewood Crisis Re-examined," Discussion Papers 10591, Resources for the Future.
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Keywords
firewood crisis; time allocation; fuel switching; JFM; India;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- O13 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Agriculture; Natural Resources; Environment; Other Primary Products
- O18 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Urban, Rural, Regional, and Transportation Analysis; Housing; Infrastructure
- Q23 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Renewable Resources and Conservation - - - Forestry
- Q42 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Energy - - - Alternative Energy Sources
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AGR-2006-05-13 (Agricultural Economics)
- NEP-CWA-2006-05-13 (Central and Western Asia)
- NEP-ENE-2006-05-13 (Energy Economics)
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