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User requirements for domestic energy applications : households in informal urban settings
Bibliography: leaves 273-276.
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| author | Van Gass, Maria Magdalena |
| author2 | Eberhard, Anton |
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/14696 User requirements for domestic energy applications : households in informal urban settings Van Gass, Maria Magdalena Eberhard, Anton Power resources - South Africa - Cape Town Squatter settlements - South Africa - Cape Town Bibliography: leaves 273-276. The thematic focus of this dissertation is the specificity of user requirements for domestic energy applications in informal urban settlements and how these are fashioned by the contextual pre-conditions of poverty and instability. The fieldwork focused on a group of people who can be defined by the facts that they are people who house themselves, possibly fall into the lowest or no income sector of the population, are peripheral to the mainstream economic activity in the country and are temporary or permanent or roving urbanites. The research approach is done from the viewpoint that user requirements should inform the design of systems for domestic energy applications and that these subjective requirements constitute the correct point of departure from which to evaluate the efficacy of energy support services. The bulk of this dissertation consists of recounts of research interviews, illustrating some aspects of user requirements. These are presented as 'primary data' with the purpose of rendering the research more transparent and of feeing an information resource with the option of re-interpretation by the reader. The dissertation concludes that appropriate energy services will have to be characterised by adaptability and diversity as well as by sensitive responses to the micro networks of urban subsistence household economies. 2015-11-08T04:43:00Z 2015-11-08T04:43:00Z 1995 Master Thesis Masters MPhil http://hdl.handle.net/11427/14696 eng application/pdf Energy Research Centre Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment University of Cape Town |
| spellingShingle | Power resources - South Africa - Cape Town Squatter settlements - South Africa - Cape Town Van Gass, Maria Magdalena User requirements for domestic energy applications : households in informal urban settings |
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| title | User requirements for domestic energy applications : households in informal urban settings |
| title_full | User requirements for domestic energy applications : households in informal urban settings |
| title_fullStr | User requirements for domestic energy applications : households in informal urban settings |
| title_full_unstemmed | User requirements for domestic energy applications : households in informal urban settings |
| title_short | User requirements for domestic energy applications : households in informal urban settings |
| title_sort | user requirements for domestic energy applications households in informal urban settings |
| topic | Power resources - South Africa - Cape Town Squatter settlements - South Africa - Cape Town |
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