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Analyzing data from a survey of 490 participants in Zarqa Governorate, it evaluates the main determinants of subjective fuel poverty. The survey was conducted over 1 month, from March 10 to April 10, 2022. Findings reveal that the sample households experience challenges related to fuel poverty. The modeling of subjective indicators indicates an association between income level and the probability of being in arrears with utility bills.
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I’m going to write about the UK quite a bit in this article, but I hope it will be just as useful to readers from elsewhere. My objective is to explain why the Dutch infrastructure is amazing – and to support a way of seeing and understanding Dutch design – and it’s easiest to do this by making comparisons to another country. Louder Than War is run by a small but dedicated independent team, and we rely on the small amount of money we generate to keep the site running smoothly.
Dutch cities work the way they do because of the way their streets are designed – and UK cities work the way they do because of the way their streets are designed. In sub-Saharan African countries, the domestic energy landscape is primarily dominated by fuelwood. For example, in Togo, specifically its important city, Lome, past and current data underline the unprecedented predominance of biomass. More than half of the total domestic energy consumed for cooking in Lome is still drawn from wood. In this study, I argue that fuelwood predominance results from a minor transition.
It’s clear that the local people – in many places – feel that this is ‘their’ space. There is often greenery looked after by the residents (and there are often weeds, moss, grass growing in cracks too). The junctions are designed, like the streets, by providing just the minimum space needed for vehicle movement. Traffic has to negotiate junction space slowly because the space is tight. There are often hard features, including bollards, forcing slow speeds. UK residential street junctions almost always have marked priorities.
UK cities have thousands and thousands of miles of yellow line painted along the edges of their streets. There are many other important design features used at Dutch residential local-access street junctions. Generally (given reduced levels of traffic) people cycling here don’t need to slow down at all from the steady Dutch cycling speed. On UK residential streets it is usual for one-way restrictions to apply to everybody, even if they put people on bicycles at a major disadvantage. The Dutch sustainable safety approach is discussed very little in the UK – and I often think that people assume it to be some kind of behaviour/safety campaign rather than a policy directly influencing infrastructure design. In this article I only want to convey some of the most important features or effects of the approach – and indeed to highlight how important it is.
Parking is restricted only to allow for the movement of motor vehicles. Below I’ve taken some of the images of Dutch streets that I used earlier, and I’ve drawn red lines along the edges of the carriageway. The red lines show the edges of the bit of the street that looks like it’s designed for driving on.
Moreover, the results highlight issues such as an inability to maintain adequate summer and winter temperatures and the presence of leaks, damp, and rot. In light of these findings, policy interventions should focus on enhancing energy efficiency and supporting vulnerable low-income households, particularly those in rural areas. Households in developing countries predominantly rely on solid fuel for cooking, which is injurious to both the environment and human health. The provision of clean energy for cooking, therefore, is essential for safeguarding the environment and human health, primarily of women and children in developing countries.
Using the 2014–2015 Pakistan Social and Living Standards Measurement Survey and robust econometric methods, this study analyzes different types of energy used for cooking among urban households in Pakistan. The study shows that although urban households in Pakistan mostly use gas for cooking, the use of solid fuels, particularly among poor and relatively less educated households, is pervasive. The econometric findings confirm that households with a higher level of education and wealthy families mainly use clean energy, such as gas, and are less likely to use dirty solid fuels, such as cake dung and crop residue for cooking.
We will even put on our aprons and explore the ancient kitchen using our own hands, noses, mouths, and stomachs as a guide. This article outlines traditional ways that food, principally wheat and milk products, are prepared for storage and eaten in the Levant. Food is an important component of human culture, which not only provides nutrition, but is also used to cement social ties and mark occasions. Foods prepared and consumed by farming and pastoral groups help to define their respective identities and emphasise difference. Oprit bestraten discussed here, sedentary farmers, semi-nomadic farmers and goat-herding bedouin, rely on similar raw ingredients and preparation of foodstuffs, but some aspects are unique to one and not to the others. Changes in local diet over the past 100 years also reflect profound social and political changes within the region over this period.
And like that evasive term, this article will only spread more confusion. To misquote Julian Cope, my voice is one amongst many who, “like a pig drawing a cartload of sausages, draw their own conclusions”. Well, Louder Than War was an early champion of some of these acts.