Lights on or trade off?: Can base-of-the-pyramid approaches deliver solutions to energy poverty?

Sustainability Challenges and Solutions at the Base of the Pyramid: Business, Technology and the Poor

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 51-68

  Wilson, Emma ^a   Zarsky, Lyuba ^b   Shaad, Brian ^c   Bundock, Ben ^c  

^a INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT   (United Kingdom)

^b MONTEREY INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES   (United States)

^c NONE

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EID: 85076069203     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9781351279888-3     Document Type: Chapter

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