User requirements for domestic energy applications : households in informal urban settings

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dc.contributor.advisorEberhard, Antonen_ZA
dc.contributor.authorVan Gass, Maria Magdalenaen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2015-11-08T04:43:00Z
dc.date.available2015-11-08T04:43:00Z
dc.date.issued1995en_ZA
dc.descriptionBibliography: leaves 273-276.en_ZA
dc.description.abstractThe 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.en_ZA
dc.identifier.apacitationVan Gass, M. M. (1995). <i>User requirements for domestic energy applications : households in informal urban settings</i>. (Thesis). University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Engineering & the Built Environment ,Energy Research Centre. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/14696en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationVan Gass, Maria Magdalena. <i>"User requirements for domestic energy applications : households in informal urban settings."</i> Thesis., University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Engineering & the Built Environment ,Energy Research Centre, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/14696en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationVan Gass, M. 1995. User requirements for domestic energy applications : households in informal urban settings. University of Cape Town.en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Thesis / Dissertation AU - Van Gass, Maria Magdalena AB - 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. DA - 1995 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 1995 T1 - User requirements for domestic energy applications : households in informal urban settings TI - User requirements for domestic energy applications : households in informal urban settings UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/14696 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11427/14696
dc.identifier.vancouvercitationVan Gass MM. User requirements for domestic energy applications : households in informal urban settings. [Thesis]. University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Engineering & the Built Environment ,Energy Research Centre, 1995 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/14696en_ZA
dc.language.isoengen_ZA
dc.publisher.departmentEnergy Research Centreen_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Engineering and the Built Environment
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.subject.otherPower resources - South Africa - Cape Townen_ZA
dc.subject.otherSquatter settlements - South Africa - Cape Townen_ZA
dc.titleUser requirements for domestic energy applications : households in informal urban settingsen_ZA
dc.typeMaster Thesis
dc.type.qualificationlevelMasters
dc.type.qualificationnameMPhilen_ZA
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