Cities in the central-southern area of Chile face serious environmental pollution due to extensive use of firewood for …, and study social and environmental consequences of high consumption of firewood. Actual energy consumption is studied with … studies. Results for the city of Valdivia show high firewood consumption per household, with a media bulk volume near 12m3 …

In this paper, we evaluate empirically the impact of biogas subsidies on household biogas energy use in rural China …. Special attention was given to the problem of sample selection bias in assessing the impact of subsidies on biogas energy use … because biogas subsidies often change the propensity for installing biogas digesters. Using data from a large-scale household …

The Indian Government's National Biogas and Manure Management Programme (NBMMP) seeks to deliver renewable energy … services to households across the country by facilitating the deployment of family-sized (<6m3) anaerobic (biogas) digesters … enable development of community-focused microfinance schemes to improve the affordability of biogas systems. …

As part of its climate policy, Germany promotes the production of biogas via its so-called Renewable-Energy-Act (EEG …). The resulting boost in biogas output went along with a significant increase in production of green maize, the dominant … use and the environment by combining a detailed location model for biogas plants, the Regionalised Location Information …

The Chinese government since 1995 has carried out programs for the construction of household biogas digesters in the … Chinese countryside. Despite the large governmental spending in the building of household biogas digesters, only 12.16% of the … households suitable to produce and use biogas, have built a digester (Li, 2009). This article asks which factors on the household …

The current status and legal framework of biogas production in Portugal are analyzed and compared to that of five other … European countries, characterized by wide-ranging diversity of substrates and biogas applications. With this comparison, and … with the calculation of the biogas energy potential in Portugal, the authors want to assess the significance of developing …

, hydropower turbines or solar panels, in the case of biogas, energy production cannot directly take from the energy source … production processes. Research has left the question largely unanswered of how agricultural biogas production and use are – and … social organization of biogas production and use work sustainably? This introduction article to the Special Issue “The social …

wind, biomass, biogas and photovoltaic is expected to increase significantly. Due to its many aspects of a direct democracy … achieved in Switzerland. A survey of 502 citizens living near 19 biogas plants was conducted as the basis for using structural … smell, information received and participation options on citizens’ acceptance of “their” biogas plant. Results show that …