Documents et rapports
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Haiti: Strategy to alleviate the pressure of fuel demand on national woodfuel resources (anglais)
Haiti suffers from a serious deterioration of its natural environment and, in particular, from a heavy pressure on its natural resources. The reasons for this deterioration are multiple (poverty level...
Type de document: Rapport de l'ESMAP Numéro du rapport: 40239 Date du document: 1 avril 2007 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Van Der Plas,Robert J.
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Haïti : Stratégie pour l’allégement de la pression sur les ressources ligneuses nationales par la demande en combustibles (français)
Haïti souffre d’une grave détérioration de son environnement naturel et, en particulier, d’importantes pressions sur ses ressources naturelles. Les raisons de cette détérioration sont multiples (pauvreté...
Type de document: Rapport de l'ESMAP Numéro du rapport: 40239 Date du document: 1 avril 2007 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Van Der Plas,Robert J.
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Burning charcoal issues (anglais)
Charcoal plays an important role in both the energy sectors and the economies of most African countries. However, the inefficiencies inherent to the production and use of charcoal, rapid urbanization...
Type de document: Bulletin d’information Numéro du rapport: 17617 Date du document: 30 avril 1995 Auteur: Van Der Plas,Robert J.
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What makes people cook with improved biomass stoves? : a comparative international review of stove programs (anglais)
Hundreds of millions of people rely on woodfuels for most of their energy needs, despite the problems associated with traditional use of woodfuels - including energy inefficiency, deforestation, increasing...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: WTP242 Date du document: 31 mai 1994 Auteur: Barnes, Douglas F.,Openshaw,Keith,Smith,Kirk Robert,Van Der Plas,Robert J.
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Solar energy answer to rural power in Africa (anglais)
In Kenya, more rural households get their electricity from solar energy than through the Government's rural electrification program. The spread of the photovoltaic systems has been recent, rapid and market...
Type de document: Point de vue Numéro du rapport: 16950 Date du document: 30 avril 1994 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Van Der Plas,Robert J.
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The design and diffusion of improved cooking stoves (anglais)
The poorer half of the world's people have long relied for their energy needs on woodfuels. Since the oil shocks of the 1970s, pressure on forest resources has increased and the costs of traditional use...
Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 14316 Date du document: 31 juillet 1993 Auteur: Barnes,Douglas French,Openshaw,Keith,Smith,Kirk Robert,Van Der Plas,Robert J.
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The World Bank research observer 8 (2) (anglais)
The design and diffusion of improved cooking stoves. What do we know about the political economy of economic policy reform? Using auctions to allocate and price long-term credit. Wage controls during the...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 17523 Date du document: 31 juillet 1993 Auteur: Barnes,Douglas French,Openshaw,Keith,Smith,Kirk Robert,Van Der Plas,Robert J.,Haggard,Stephan Mark,Webb,Steven Benjamin,Guasch, J. Luis,Glaessner,Thomas C.,Coricelli,Fabrizio,Lane, Timothy D.,Easterly,William R.,Schmidt-Hebbel,Klaus,Summers,Lawrence Henry,Thomas,Vinod
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CO2 emissions by the residential sector : environmental implications of inter-fuel substitution (anglais)
Carbon dioxide (CO2) accounts for 55% of the buildup of greenhouse gases based on radiative equivalence and atmospheric residence time. The most important emitters of CO2 are fossil fuels and deforestation...
Type de document: Document de travail départemental Numéro du rapport: 10496 Date du document: 31 mars 1992 Auteur: Floor,Willem M.,Van Der Plas,Robert J.
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Domestic lighting (anglais)
Lighting is one of the determinants of quality of life. In most developing countries, households spend a considerable part of their cash income on modern fuels to meet their lighting needs. The average...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS68 Date du document: 30 novembre 1988 Auteur: Van Der Plas,Robert J.
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A comparison of lamps for domestic lighting in developing countries (anglais)
The report describes the results of laboratory tests of lamps and light quality in terms of, inter alia, consumed principal energy and obtained quantity and quality of light, and it quantifies the differences...
Type de document: Document de travail départemental Numéro du rapport: 8283 Date du document: 30 juin 1988 Auteur: Van Der Plas,Robert J.,de Graaff, A. B.