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This document is a bibliographic entry and a collection of brief feature snippets from the Stockholm Environment Institute website regarding an MSc thesis by Elisabeth Kvarnström and other related water resource perspectives in Nepal.

This 1994 report by the Stockholm Environment Institute examines energy use within the urban informal sector of Tanzania, specifically in Dar es Salaam, Mbeya, and Shinyanga. It analyzes the relationship between capital intensity, energy efficiency, and employment, noting that the sector serves as a critical economic survival mechanism, particularly for women. The study finds a dichotomy between subsistence-oriented activities using traditional fuels and small-scale businesses using modern energy, concluding that the informal sector provides significant employment without substantially increasing total urban energy consumption due to capital limitations.

This report provides an overview of a workshop focused on rural electrification in four East African countries, specifically examining obstacles, potential solutions, and the role of bio-electrification, solar, wind, and hydro power.

This research paper compares two methodologies for estimating national-level greenhouse gas emissions from the energy sector, specifically analyzing CO2 emissions for 1988 and the additional heating effects of other combustion gases.

A two-year monitoring study in North Yorkshire investigated dust deposition in villages near coal-fired power stations, specifically focusing on the impact of Drax Power Station and its fly-ash tip on the village of Barlow.

This report by the Stockholm Environment Institute analyzes energy use trends across various sectors in major energy-consuming countries to address environmental and geopolitical challenges.

The LEAP (Long-range Energy Alternatives Planning) Volume 2 User Guide provides detailed technical instructions for using a computer-based accounting and simulation tool designed for policy makers to evaluate energy policies and develop sustainable energy plans. The system integrates demand forecasting, energy transformation, biomass resource tracking, and environmental impact assessment into a modular framework for scenario analysis.

This 1992 report by the Stockholm Environment Institute evaluates the technical, financial, and socio-economic impacts of rural electrification projects implemented by the Tanzania Electric Supply Company (TANESCO). The study finds that while electrification has provided substantial individual benefits—such as improved lighting and security—it has largely failed to achieve wider macro-economic goals, including the promotion of agro-industry and the reduction of deforestation. The report highlights severe financial losses in isolated diesel-powered areas, low supply reliability, and administrative weaknesses, recommending a restructuring of TANESCO's organization and a revision of tariff policies to improve sustainability.

This guide explains how to configure fuel economy data for transport analysis within the LEAP software, covering unit selection, aging profiles, and the calculation of stock average fuel economy.

The document is a guide for the 'Constants' menu option within a software tool, explaining how to use and manage constant values in expressions.

This guide explains how to reference results variables within LEAP expressions, detailing the syntax for filtering, unit scaling, and the temporal constraints on referencing internally calculated values.

This guide explains how to configure and vary Integrated Benefits Calculator (IBC) methods within LEAP scenarios, specifically regarding health impact functions, particulate matter scaling, and background emission scenarios.

The Environmental Loadings Factors screen is a tool within the TED data pages used to specify and manage environmental effects for technologies, allowing for the entry of numeric values or expressions for loading factors such as emission factors.

This guide explains how to reference data variables, results variables, fuel variables, and constants within expressions in the LEAP software to create models with both exogenous and endogenous variables.

This guide describes the land-based resource modeling capabilities within the Low Emissions Analysis Platform (LEAP), specifically its ability to assess land-use change, biomass energy strategies, and the availability of renewable resources.

This guide explains how to specify environmental loadings in the Technology Emissions Database (TED), detailing the use of constant numeric values versus mathematical expressions based on fuel chemical composition to ensure accurate emission calculations in LEAP scenarios.

The TED Expression Builder is a tool within the TED system designed to help users edit environmental loadings expressions through a drag-and-drop interface featuring variables, constants, and mathematical operators.

The 'Renewable Qualified' variable in optimization-based scenarios specifies the percentage of a process's output (from 0% to 100%) that is considered renewable, used alongside the module-level 'Renewable Target' variable.

This guide describes the Geographic Mapping screen in LEAP, which allows users to create named lists of raster-based GIS data sets to allocate emissions to grid squares for visualization in interactive maps.

The Time-Series Wizard is a LEAP software tool used to create time-series expressions via interpolation, step functions, smooth curves, or projections. It supports data input from manual entry, Excel links, or the LEAP Cloud Database Server (LCDS), which hosts international open-source energy and emissions data.