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Household energy consumption in rural China: Historical development, present pattern and policy implication
- Source :
- Journal of Cleaner Production. 211:981-991
- Publication Year :
- 2019
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2019.
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Abstract
- Household energy consumption in rural areas is strongly related to living standards, poverty alleviation, air pollution and health, but lacks solid analysis due to limited data. This paper first presents a systematical overview of rural household energy consumption in China from 1985 to 2013. To quantify and illustrate the pattern of rural household energy consumption, we use a comprehensive household survey, the Chinese Residential Energy Consumption Survey (CRECS, 2013) to illustrate the energy consumption by seven types of energy and five types of end-use demand. Moreover, we compare the rural household energy consumption in terms of quantity, fuel mix and demand structure by North-South regions, East-Middle-West areas and various countries. We identify the biomass still dominate Chinese rural household energy supply while cooking and space heating are the most energy-intensive demand. The overall energy efficiency for a rural household is 33%, mainly attributed to the massive use of biomass. Policy implications are summarized and discussed.
- Subjects :
- Consumption (economics)
Poverty
Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
020209 energy
Strategy and Management
05 social sciences
02 engineering and technology
Building and Construction
Energy consumption
Standard of living
Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
Agricultural economics
050501 criminology
0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
Economics
Energy supply
Rural area
China
0505 law
General Environmental Science
Efficient energy use
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 09596526
- Volume :
- 211
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Cleaner Production
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........2f900fb5db4d16a027dc8970fe2ef7f0