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Triple Helix as a Strategic Tool to Fast-Track Climate Change Adaptation in Rural Kenya: Case Study of Marsabit County
AbstractThe lack of affordable, clean, and reliable energy in Africa’s rural areas forces people to resort to poor quality energy source, which is detrimental to the people’s health and prevents the economic development of communities. Moreover, access to safe water and food security are concerns closely linked to health issues and children malnourishment. Recent climate change due to global warming has worsened the already critical situation.Electricity is well known to be an enabler of development as it allows the use of modern devices thus enabling the development of not only income-generating activities but also water pumping and food processing and conservation that can promote socioeconomic growth. However, all of this is difficult to achieve due to the lack of investors, local skills, awareness by the community, and often also government regulations.All the above mentioned barriers to the uptake of electricity in rural Kenya could be solved by the coordinated effort of government, private sector, and academia, also referred to as Triple Helix, in which each entity may partially take the other’s role. This chapter discretizes the above and shows how a specific county (Marsabit) has benefited from this triple intervention. Existing government policies and actions and programs led by nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and international agencies are reviewed, highlighting the current interconnection and gaps in promoting integrated actions toward climate change adaptation and energy access.
- Sapienza University of Rome Italy
- Roma Tre University Italy
- National Institute for Nuclear Physics Italy
- Strathmore University Kenya
- University of Pisa Italy
Enabling, Economics, FOS: Political science, Frugal Innovation in Emerging Markets, Energy Engineering and Power Technology, Social Sciences, Business, Management and Accounting, Engineering, Rural Digital Europe, Energy Poverty, Electricity, Natural resource economics, Indoor Air Pollution in Developing Countries, Government (linguistics), Business, Business and International Management, Political science, Economic growth, Psychiatry, Energy, Adaptation (eye), Geography, Physics, Rural Electrification, Agriculture, Linguistics, Optics, Food security, Energy Research, Pollution, Hydrogen Energy Systems and Technologies, FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion, Philosophy, Archaeology, Electrical engineering, Environmental Science, Physical Sciences, FOS: Languages and literature, Medicine
Enabling, Economics, FOS: Political science, Frugal Innovation in Emerging Markets, Energy Engineering and Power Technology, Social Sciences, Business, Management and Accounting, Engineering, Rural Digital Europe, Energy Poverty, Electricity, Natural resource economics, Indoor Air Pollution in Developing Countries, Government (linguistics), Business, Business and International Management, Political science, Economic growth, Psychiatry, Energy, Adaptation (eye), Geography, Physics, Rural Electrification, Agriculture, Linguistics, Optics, Food security, Energy Research, Pollution, Hydrogen Energy Systems and Technologies, FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion, Philosophy, Archaeology, Electrical engineering, Environmental Science, Physical Sciences, FOS: Languages and literature, Medicine
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