STRATÉGIES SOCIO-ÉCONOMIQUES DE CONSOMMATION DU BOIS-ÉNERGIE DES MÉNAGES CONGOLAIS FACE À LA PRÉCARITÉ ÉNERGÉTIQUE EN RDC.

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Supervisors

Legrand, Vincent ; Farcy, Christine

Faculty

Faculté des sciences économiques, sociales, politiques et de communication

Degree label

Master [120] en sciences de la population et du développement, à finalité spécialisée: développement

Abstract

enFaced with the structural energy precariousness that affects populations in different regions of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Congolese households are led to develop sometimes complex adaptation strategies to meet their essential energy needs, primarily cooking. This qualitative research, conducted with 13 housewives and 12 charcoal sellers in the Masina commune of Kinshasa, aims to analyze the socio-economic strategies of fuelwood consumption and to determine their impact on the collective consciousness of environmental issues, such as deforestation and climate. The conceptual framework mobilizes the notions of energy precariousness, understood in its dimensions of access, cost, and quality as well as the concept of 'coping strategies' or the economy of 'making do', describing the behavioral responses of households to scarcity.It also integrates the articulation between fuelwood consumption, deforestation, and the collective consciousness of environmental issues, often hindered by cognitive dissonance between the knowledge of negative impacts and the necessity to survive.