Smith KR. Why both gas and biomass are needed today to address the solid fuel cooking problem in India: A challenge to the biomass stove community. Energy for Sustainable Development 38:102-103, 2017.
Air quality, health, and climate implications of China’s synthetic natural gas development
Qin Y, Wagner F, Scovronick N, Peng W, Yang J, Zhu T, Smith KR, Mauzerall DL. Air quality, health, and climate implications of China’s synthetic natural gas development. Proc Nat Acad of Sci. March 2017. www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1703167114
Liquefied Petroleum Gas as a Clean Cooking Fuel for Developing Countries: Implications for Climate, Forests, and Affordability
Bruce NG, Aunan K, Rehfuess EA, Liquefied Petroleum Gas as a Clean Cooking Fuel for Developing Countries: Implications for Climate, Forests, and Affordability, Materials on Development Financing, No. 7, March 2017, KfW Development Bank, Frankfurt, Germany.
The health burden and economic costs averted by ambient PM2.5 pollution reductions in Nagpur
Etchie TO, Sivanesan S, Adewuy GO, Krishnamurthi K, Rao PS, Etchie AT, Pillarisetti A, Arora NK, Smith KR. 2017. The health burden and economic costs averted by ambient PM2.5 pollution reductions in Nagpur, India. Environment International, 102: 145-156. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2017.02.010
Probe-based measurements of moisture in dung fuel for emissions measurements
Gautam S, Edwards R, Yada A, Weltman R, Pillarisetti A, Arora NK, Smith KR, 2016, Probe-based measurements of moisture in dung fuel for emissions measurement, Energy for Sustainable Development, 35(Dec):1-6.
The Last Summer Olympics? Climate Change, Health, and Work Outdoors
Smith KR, Woodward A, Lemke B, Otto M, Chang CJ, Mance AA, Balmes J, Kjellstrom T, 2016 (Aug 13). "The Last Summer Olympics? Climate Change, Health, and Work Outdoors" The Lancet 388: 642-644.
The article was also featured on the Berkeley News homepage on August 11, 2016 in an article entitled "Warming world may put most cities off limits for summer Olympics." Professor Smith was interviewed by Amy Goodman at Democracy Now on August 24, 2016. Video of the interview and a transcript can be viewed here.
India Leads the Way: A Health-Centered Strategy for Air Pollution
Sagar AD, Balakrishnan K, Chowdhury A, Guttikunda S, Smith KR, 2016, India leads the way: A health-centered strategy for air pollution, Environ Health Perspect 124(7): A116-117.
Air pollutant emissions from Chinese households: A major and underappreciated ambient pollution source
Liu J, Mauzerall DL, Chen Q, Zhang Q, Song Y, Peng W, Klimont Z, Qiu X, Zhang S, Hu M, Smith KR, Zhu T. Air pollutant emissions from Chinese households: A major and underappreciated ambient pollution source. Proc Nat Acad of Sci June 2016 www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1604537113
Liu et al. Supporting Information
www.pnas.org/lookup/suppl/doi:10.1073/pnas.1604537113/-/DCSupplemental.
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 Health: A 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? PRO. Thorax 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.
Pillarisetti, A; Mehta, S; Smith, KR. HAPIT, the Household Air Pollution Intervention Tool, to evaluate the health benefits and cost-effectiveness of clean cooking interventions. Ch 10 in Thomas, E., Ed, Broken Pumps and Promises: Incentivizing Impact in Environmental Health, Springer International Press, 2016, pp. 147-169.
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 protocols. Energy 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 health, Lancet 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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