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Table 2 PECO elements of the systematic map question

From: The socioeconomic and environmental impacts of wood energy value chains in Sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic map protocol

Populations

Exposures

Comparators

Outcomes

Context

Forests, woodlands, and shrublands (natural or planted), or farmlands, agroforests or landscapes consisting of the mixtures of those that supply firewood and charcoal in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) (see Additional file 1 for list of SSA countries)

Production, collecting, harvesting, processing, trading and consumption of wood energy

Before or without wood energy production, collection, harvesting, processing, trading or consumption activities

Environmental impacts, including deforestation, forest degradation, forest regeneration, and other changes in tree cover; secondary impacts on greenhouse gas emissions, carbon sequestration/carbon stocks, and non-carbon ecosystem services, water flow, erosion/sedimentation, biodiversity

Formal and informal regulatory frameworks that govern wood energy production, collection, harvesting, processing, trading and consumption activities, which include tenure systems, trade, energy, environmental laws and regulations.

Wood energy value chain participants (as specific economic groups): collectors, producers, traders, intermediate and final consumers in SSA

(Note: Production practices can include managed coppice systems, plantation forestry, assisted natural regeneration, and agroforestry)

Before or without substitute or alternative technologies (kilns and cookstoves) that affect demand/supply of wood energy

Socio-economic impacts on wood energy value chain participants, such as changes in employment, assets, income, household pollution, health, based on indicators listed in [34]