1987, Biofuels, Air Pollution, and Health: A Global Review, Kirk R. Smith

“Nearly 3 decades after publication of the first and still, I believe, only book laying out the major issues around what we now call household air pollution, it is available for download in pdf.   It started to address most all of the issues we still struggle with except, perhaps, the climate angle, which I am coming to think in any case is a bit of a red herring even though we also introduced the concept of what is now called 'co-benefits' and made the first measurements in the early 1990s.    Unfortunately, however, unthinking application of climate concerns now operates as a deterrent in some quarters to embracing truly clean cookfuel alternatives that have so much benefit to offer the very poorest populations.

Note, I have long stopped using the term 'biofuels' to mean biomass fuels, since biofuels now have come to mean liquid and gaseous fuels made from biomass in most of the world’s literature.  Continued use of 'biofuel' by some in our community now serves to confuse things I am afraid:  biomass fuel is a perfectly reasonable term and nicely parallel to fossil fuel."

 -K.R. Smith-

Modern Perspectives in Energy, (originally published by Plenum, which was purchased by) Springer

1987, Biofuels, Air Pollution, and HealthA Global Review, Kirk R. Smith

ISBN: 978-1-4612-8231-0 (Print) 978-1-4613-0891-1 (Online) 

The Climate Change Challenge and Barriers to the Exercise of Foresight Intelligence

Ross L, Arrow K, Cialdini R, Diamond-Smith N, Diamond J, Dunne J, Feldman M, Horn R, Kennedy D, Murphy C, Pirages D, Smith K, York R, Ehrlich P.  The Climate Change Challenge and Barriers to the Exercise of Foresight Intelligence Bioscience April 13, 2016.  E-Pub ahead of print. doi:10.1093/biosci/biw025

Kerosene subsidies for household lighting in India: what are the impacts?

Lam NL, Pachauri S, Purohit P, Nagai Y, Bates MN, Cameron C, Smith KR.  Kerosene subsidies for household lighting in India: what are the impacts? Environ Res Lett 2016 11(4), 044014. doi:10.1088/1748-9326/11/4/044014

Lam NL, Pachauri S, Purohit P, Nagai Y, Bates MN, Cameron C, Smith KR.  Supporting Information: Supporting Information: Kerosene Subsidies for Household Lighting in India: What are the Impacts? 

 

Lung function in woodsmoke-exposed Guatemalan children following a chimney stove intervention

Heinzerling AP, Guarnieri MJ, Mann JK, Diaz JV, Thompson LM, Diaz A, Bruce NG, Smith KR, Balmes JR. Lung function in woodsmoke-exposed Guatemalan children following a chimney stove intervention. Thorax Published Online First 10 March 2016 doi:10.1136/thoraxjnl-2015-207783.

Mortimer K.  Editorial: Chimney stove intervention - ready for scale up? CON. Thorax Published Online First: 10 March 2016 doi:10.1136/thoraxjnl-2016-208318.

Bush A. Editorial: Chimney stove intervention - ready for scale up? PROThorax Published Online First: 10 March 2016 doi:10.1136/thoraxjnl-2015-208241.

HAPIT, the Household Air Pollution Intervention Tool to evaluate the health benefits and cost-effectiveness of clean cooking interventions.

 

 

 

Efficiencies and pollutant emissions from forced-draft biomass-pellet semi-gasifier stoves: Comparison of International and Chinese water boiling test protocols

Chen Y, Shen G, Su Shy,  Du W, Huangfu Y, Lio G, Wang X, Xing B, Smith KR, Tao S. Efficiencies and pollutant emissions from forced-draft biomass-pellet semi-gasifier stoves: Comparison of International and Chinese water boiling test protocolsEnergy for Sustainable Development 2016 32:22–30.

 

 

Report of the Steering Committee on Air Pollution and Health Related Issues, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India

Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India. Report of the Steering Committee on Air Pollution and Health Related Issues. August 2015. Nirman Bhawan, New Delhi, India.

Proposed Methodology: Quantification of a saleable health product (aDALYs) from household cooking interventions

Smith KR, Pillarisetti A, Hill LD, Charron D, Delapena S, Garland C, Pennise D, Proposed Methodology: Quantification of a saleable health product (aDALYs) from household cooking interventions, Household Energy, Climate, and Health Research Group (University of California) and Berkeley Air Monitoring Group, Berkeley, CA, for the World Bank, December 2015.

 

 

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

Download the article and supplement.

Download the Excel database.

 

 

 

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. 

Climate Change, Violence, and the Afterlife

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

Please note caveat from journal: "This is an unedited manuscript that has been accepted for publication. The manuscript will undergo copyediting, typesetting, and review of the resulting proof before it is published in its final form. Please note that during the production process errors may be discovered which could affect the content

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