" Chapter 1 Introduction: the Global Political Economy of Energy Transitions The question of
whether and how we can collectively steer our economy and society onto a lower carbon …

Is charcoal a sustainable energy source in Africa? This is a crucial question, given
charcoal's key importance to urban energy. In today's dominant policy narrative–the …

Transitioning to a low carbon global economy will inevitably create winners and losers. Such
rapid and far-reaching changes in the adoption of low-carbon technologies, lifestyle …

This paper builds on heterogeneous infrastructures scholarship to examine urban electricity
access geographies in the Global South. I propose the notion of urban bricoleurs to help …

Off-grid solar products, which are typically positioned as a solution to rural energy poverty,
have experienced rapid sales growth in urban centers across the Global South over the last …

Electricity access in sub-Saharan Africa is the lowest amongst all regions of the world. In
response, since the 1990s, the World Bank and other donors have pushed African countries …

Increasingly common methods for financing public infrastructure in developing economies
are Resources-for-Infrastructure (R4I) and Resource-Financed Infrastructure (RFI), usually …

Electricity demand exceeds supply in many parts of Africa, and this often results in rolling
blackouts. This article argues that blackouts tend to concentrate on poorer places within …

The purpose of this article is to identify and evaluate the limitations and emerging trends of
Six Sigma from the perspectives of Six Sigma experts. The authors developed an online …

In this paper, we explore the practices and spaces of mobile phone charging in The Gambia
and Sierra Leone through the lens of 'electricity scarcity'as a means to conceptualise …