Promoting Clean and Affordable Cooking – Smarter Subsidies for LPG

Tripathi A, Sagar AD, Smith KR. Promoting Clean and Affordable Cooking.  Economic & Political Weekly 2015;48:81-84. 

 

Household Air Pollution Exposures of Pregnant Women Receiving Advanced Combustion Cookstoves in India: Implications for Intervention

Balakrishnan K, Sambandam S, Ghosh S, Mukhopadhyay K, Vaswani M, Arora NK, Darby J, Pillariseti A, Bates MN, Smith KR.  Household Air Pollution Exposures of Pregnant Women Receiving Advanced Combustion Cookstoves in India: Implications for Intervention. Annals of Global Health 2015;81:375–385. doi:10.1016/j.aogh.2015.08.009

 

Fossil fuel subsidies and health

Smith KR, Sagar A. Fossil fuel subsidies and healthLancet Global Health 2015;3:e674.

Applications of a joint CO2 and CH4 climate debt metric: Insights into global patterns and mitigation priorities

Desai MA, Rogers JV, Smith KR.  Applications of a joint CO2 and CH4 climate debt metric: Insights into global patterns and mitigation priorities. Global Environmental Change 2015;35:176-189. DOI 10.1016.jgloenvcha.2015.08.001

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Direct Energy Consumption Associated Emissions by Rural-to-Urban Migrants in Beijing

Ru M, Tao S, Smith K, Shen G, Shen H, Huang Y, Chen H, Chen Y, Chen X, Liu J, Li B, Wang X, He C. Direct Energy Consumption Associated Emissions by Rural-to-Urban Migrants in Beijing. Enviromental Science &  Technology (publication online October 26, 2015) doi 10.1021/acs.est.5b03374.  Note: final publication is forthcoming.

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Are Randomized Trials Necessary to Advance Epidemiologic Research of Household Air Pollution?

Peel JL, Baumgartner J, Wellenius GA, Clark ML, Smith KR. Are Randomized Trials Necessary to Advance Epidemiologic Research of Household Air Pollution? Current Epidemiol Reports. (published online Sep 28, 2015) DOI 10.1007/s40471-015-0054-4.  Note: final published version is forthcoming. 

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PROMOTING CLEAN AND AFFORDABLE COOKING: SMARTER SUBSIDIES FOR LPG

Tripathi A, Sagar AD, Smith KR. Promoting Clean and Affordable Cooking: Smarter Subsidies  for LPG  Working Paper. July 2015. 

Air Pollution and Impact Analysis of a Pilot Stove Intervention: Report to the Ministry of Health and Inter-Ministerial Clean Stove Initiative of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic

Hill LD, Pillarisetti A, Delapena S, Garland C, Jagoe K, Koetting P, Pelletreau A, Boatman MR, Pennise D, Smith KR. Air Pollution and Impact Analysis of a Pilot Stove Intervention: Report to the Ministry of Health and
Inter-Ministerial Clean Stove Initiative of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic. June 2015.

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PM2.5 in household kitchens of Bhaktapur, Nepal, using four different cooking fuels

Pokhrel AK, Bates MN, Acharya, J, Valentiner-Branth P,  Chandyo RK, Shrestha PS, Raut AK,  Smith KR. PM2.5 in household kitchens of Bhaktapur, Nepal, using four different cooking fuels, Atmospheric Environment 2015 doi: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2015.04.060

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Wireless Stove Use Monitors (wSUMs) for Remotely Measuring Cookstove Usage - Vodafone Project "100 Million Stoves"

Ruiz-Mercado I, Eav J, Venegas P, Vaswani M, Allen T, Charron D, Smith KR. Wireless Stove Use Monitors (wSUMS) for Remotely Measuring Cookstove Usage - Vodafone Project "100 Million Stoves" Final Report May 2015., Environmental Health Sciences, UC Berkeley 2015.

Changing Paradigms in Clean Cooking

Smith KR. Changing Paradigms in Clean CookingEcoHealth 2015 doi: 10.1007/s10393-015-1020-9

Exposure to Household Air Pollution from Wood Combustion and Association with Respiratory Symptoms and Lung Function in Nonsmoking Women: Results from the RESPIRE Trial, Guatemala

Pope, D.; Díaz, E.; Smith-Sivertsen, T.; Lie, R. T.; Bakke, P.; Balmes, J. R.; Smith, K. R.; Bruce, N. G. Exposure to household air pollution from wood combustion and association with respiratory symptoms and lung function in nonsmoking women: results from the RESPIRE trial, Guatemala. Environ Health Perspect 2015;123:285–292.

Does household use of biomass fuel cause lung cancer? A systematic review and evaluation of the evidence for the GBD 2010 study

Bruce N, Dherani M, Liu R, Hosgood D, Sapkota A, Smith KR, Straif K, Lan Q, Pope D. Does household use of biomass fuel cause lung cancer? A systematic review and evaluation of the evidence for the GBD 2010 study, Thorax 2015;0:1-9. doi: 10.1136/thoraxjnl-2014-206625

Residential heating with wood and coal: health impacts and policy options in Europe and North America

Chafe Z, Brauer M, Héroux M, Klimont Z, Lanki T, Salonen RO, Smith KR. Residential heating with wood and coal: health impacts and policy options in Europe and North America, WHO Regional Office for Europe, Copenhagen 2015. 

Letter to editor [heart disease and air pollution]

Smith KR, Balmes JR, Guarnieri MJ, Letter to editor [heart disease and air pollution], New Engl J of Med, 372: 289, 2015.  DOI: 10.1056/NEJMc1412846lLeLett

Patterns of Stove Usage after Introduction of an Advanced Cookstove: The Long-Term Application of Household Sensors

Pillarisetti, A.; Vaswani, M.; Jack, D.; Balakrishnan, K.; Bates, M. N.; Arora, N. K.; Smith, K. R. Patterns of Stove Usage after Introduction of an Advanced Cookstove: The Long-Term Application of Household Sensors. Environ. Sci. Technol. 2014, 48, 14525–14533.
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Associations of Respiratory Symptoms and Lung Function with Measured Carbon Monoxide Concentrations among Nonsmoking Women Exposed to Household Air Pollution: The RESPIRE Trial, Guatemala

Pope D, Diaz E, Smith-Sivertsen T, Lie RT, Bakke P, Balmes JR, Smith KR, Bruce NG. Associations of Respiratory Symptoms and Lung Function with Measured Carbon Monoxide Concentrations among Nonsmoking Women Exposed to Household Air Pollution: The RESPIRE Trial, Guatemala. Environmental Health Perspectives 2015;123:285-292. doi.org/10.1289/ehp.1408200

 

 

Indoor air quality guidelines: household fuel combustion

Indoor air quality guidelines: household fuel combustion; World Health Organization: Geneva, Switzerland. 2014.
For more information, visit: http://www.who.int/indoorair/guidelines/hhfc/en/
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Making the clean available: Escaping India’s Chula Trap

Smith KR, Sagar A. Making the clean available: Escaping India’s Chulha Trap, Energy Policy, Volume 75, December 2014, Pages 410-414, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2014.09.024.
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