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Energy: Energy Governance, Povertyand Sustainable Development
Richard Sherman
Introduction
Energy poverty in the midst of plenty is one of the central sustainable development challenges in today’s globalized society. Access to energy services is a prerequisite to achieving the United Nation’s poverty alleviation goal to ‘reduce by half the number of people living under US$1 a day, by 2015’. It is therefore no surprise that energy and its relationship to poverty eradication and sustainable development attained a high profile throughout the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD). This chapter provides an overview of the national and multilateral ...
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