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Biomass Energy Heat Provision for Cooking and Heating in Developing Countries

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Glossary

BC:

Black Carbon, a product of incomplete combustion with a high radiative forcing value in the atmosphere

Biomass:

Biomass is defined as any plant matter used directly as fuel or converted into other forms before combustion. Included are wood and energy crops; forest and crop residues such as tops and branches and cereal straws; process residues such as sawdust, sugarcane bagasse, pulp, and paper black liquor; as well as animal materials/wastes and the organic fraction of urban and municipal waste

DALY:

Disability-Adjusted Life Years or DALYs, a measure combining years of life lost due to disability and death

GACC:

Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves (cleancookstoves.org/home/)

GIS:

Geographic Information System which embodies a spatial database and mapping capability

GWP:

Global Warming Potential, a measure in carbon dioxide equivalent terms of the climate change potential of different compounds in the atmosphere

Higher Heating Value (HHV) or Gross Calorific Value (GCV):
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Overend, R.P. (2018). Biomass Energy Heat Provision for Cooking and Heating in Developing Countries. In: Meyers, R. (eds) Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-2493-6_315-3

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