CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2014
| Author | Racz, Richard Robert |
|---|---|
| Title | The Opportunities and Threats to a Community-Based Decentralized Energy System: Biomass Briquette Production in Bag, Hungary |
| Summary | Decentralized energy system are a way of ensuring access to modern and efficient energy sources in such areas of the developing countries, where modern energy services does not available. Contrary to the developing world, in the developed countries there are widely accessible energy services; however households with low income level are increasingly facing with challenges to afford their basic energy needs. Roma are highly represented among these household, who are not just facing with energy poverty but with environmental injustices as well. In Hungary a relevant share of the Roma are living in segregated areas many times without running water, adequate sewerage and heating and enough space required for healthy living, in addition to that they are facing with high level of poverty. Therefore for these segregated settlements an applicable solution can be the decentralized community based bioenergy models, which provide cost effective, environmental friendly local solution managed by the local community. In the Roma community of Bag a community based biomass briquette production successfully work as new heating strategy and by this to contribute to the decrease the illegal logging and burning of harmful materials, which many times appear as alternative heating strategy in poor and Roma communities. |
| Supervisor | Steger, Tamara |
| Department | Environment Sciences and Policy MSc |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2014/racz_richard-robert.pdf |
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