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Burning Assets? Designing Wood Fuel Energy Strategies in Mozambique: 2MBio a Novel Participatory Model to Promote Creativity and Knowledge as Strategic Assets

Burning Assets? Designing Wood Fuel Energy Strategies in Mozambique: 2MBio a Novel Participatory Model to Promote Creativity and Knowledge as Strategic Assets
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Author(s): Ricardo Martins (CEG-IST, Portugal)
Copyright: 2017
Pages: 26
Source title: Optimum Decision Making in Asset Management
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): María Carmen Carnero (University of Castilla – La Mancha, Spain)and Vicente González-Prida (University of Seville, Spain)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-0651-5.ch019

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Abstract

Getting wood for cooking, heating, processing into charcoal and/or selling is a fundamental part of most household survival strategies in Developing Countries. Entangling in complex and dynamic ways local and global ecosystems, poverty, technology and business Wood Fuel Energy Systems (WES) are fundamental and require simple to use design tools to support the strategic and optimised used of available socio-ecological resources/assets. However, there are very few tools able to support relevant actors (e.g. charcoal makers, experts, policy makers) in that task. To bridge that gap the 2MBio, a participatory conceptual design tool to support the strategic design of WES, is introduced and its practical results in Mozambique presented. The 2MBio explicit in a simple and intuitive layout the set of necessary and sufficient resources/assets required to produce comprehensive and meaningful WES designs/strategies, which represent in themselves a strategic asset, while further stimulates knowledge and creativity as a tacit asset.

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