Biomass as residential energy in China: Current status and future perspectives

W Du, J Wang, Y Feng, W Duan, Z Wang… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2023 - Elsevier
The use of biomass instead of fossil fuel and electricity generated mainly from fossil fuel in
residential sector could contribute to carbon peaking and carbon neutrality as it is a …

Health effects of household air pollution related to biomass cook stoves in resource limited countries and its mitigation by improved cookstoves

R Pratiti, D Vadala, Z Kalynych, P Sud - Environmental Research, 2020 - Elsevier
Background Household air pollution (HAP) related to cooking is associated with significant
global morbidity and mortality. An estimated three billion people worldwide are exposed to …

Exploring the trade-offs between electric heating policy and carbon mitigation in China

J Wang, H Zhong, Z Yang, M Wang… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
China has enacted a series of policies since 2015 to substitute electricity for in-home
combustion for rural residential heating. The Electric Heating Policy (EHP) has contributed to …

Indian annual ambient air quality standard is achievable by completely mitigating emissions from household sources

S Chowdhury, S Dey, S Guttikunda… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
Exposures to ambient and household fine-particulate matter (PM2. 5) together are among
the largest single causes of premature mortality in India according to the Global Burden of …

Design and rationale of the HAPIN study: a multicountry randomized controlled trial to assess the effect of liquefied petroleum gas stove and continuous fuel …

T Clasen, W Checkley, JL Peel… - Environmental …, 2020 - ehp.niehs.nih.gov
Background: Globally, nearly 3 billion people rely on solid fuels for cooking and heating, the
vast majority residing in low-and middle-income countries (LMICs). The resulting household …

Household air pollution, health, and climate change: cleaning the air

J Goldemberg, J Martinez-Gomez… - Environmental …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Air pollution from the use of solid household fuels is now recognized to be a major health
risk in developing countries. Accordingly, there has been some shift in development thinking …

Credit, attention, and externalities in the adoption of energy efficient technologies by low-income households

SB Berkouwer, JT Dean - American Economic Review, 2022 - aeaweb.org
We study an energy efficient charcoal cookstove in an experiment with 1,000 households in
Nairobi. We estimate a 39 percent reduction in charcoal spending, which matches …

[HTML][HTML] Comparing human exposure to fine particulate matter in low and high-income countries: a systematic review of studies measuring personal PM2. 5 exposure

S Lim, E Bassey, B Bos, L Makacha, D Varaden… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Background Due to the adverse health effects of air pollution, researchers have advocated
for personal exposure measurements whereby individuals carry portable monitors in order …

Incomplete transitions to clean household energy reinforce gender inequality by lowering women's respiratory health and household labour productivity

P Maji, Z Mehrabi, M Kandlikar - World Development, 2021 - Elsevier
India has over 800 million people without access to clean cooking fuel. A well-known, but
under-researched aspect of poor access to clean energy is its cost on woman's health and …

Clean cooking for all? A critical review of behavior, stakeholder engagement, and adoption for the global diffusion of improved cookstoves

SA Lindgren - Energy Research & Social Science, 2020 - Elsevier
Improved cookstoves and solar cookers have been positioned as a socio-technical strategy
for improving household health and economics, and for reducing the negative impacts on …