Communication on energy Renewable energy and environment policies in Africa |
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| Affiliation: | 1. College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Northwest University, Xi''an 710127, China;2. Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Earth Surface System and Environmental Carrying Capacity, Northwest University, Xi''an 710127, China;3. State Key Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology, Institute of Earth Environment, CAS, Xi''an 710061, China;4. State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China;5. Hangzhou POLYFUL Advanced Material Co, Hangzhou 310000, China;6. Key Laboratory of Surface Process and Environment Remote Sensing in the Three Gorges Reservoir Area, Chongqing Normal University, Chongqing 401331, China |
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| Abstract: | Energy policies in Africa, as in most other developing regions, have been in a state of flux ever since petroleum-based fuel prices began to rise significantly from late 1973. For African countries, the timing of this increase in energy prices could not have been at a worse juncture. In the early 1970s, many African countries — especially those in the Sudano-Sahelian region, had been ravaged by years of drought, which had seriously adverse impacts on food production. When energy crisis was superimposed on an already persistent food crisis on a group of developing countries whose economies were not robust and resilient enough to successfully withstand even one of such major crises, the results were predictable and catastrophic. |
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