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Charcoal Embedded in Kenyan Culture

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Energy sustainability goes beyond the search for sustainable energy sources and implies sustainable energy systems. That is, systems energy sustainability that uses sustainable energy resources and process, store, transport, and utilize those resources sustainably. Overall sustainable development, in general, requires the simultaneous achievement of environmental, economic, and social sustainability.

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Odondi, E. Charcoal Embedded in Kenyan Culture. Development 65, 78–79 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41301-022-00333-4

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