Evaluating the relative strength of product-specific factors in fuel switching and stove choice decisions in Ethiopia. A discrete choice model of household preferences for clean cooking alternatives

Takama, Takeshi; Tsephel, Stanzin; Johnson, Francis X.

doi:10.1016/j.eneco.2012.07.001

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“…Despite the seeming differences between the fuel stacking and energy ladder hypothesis concerning the nature of fuel switching behavior among households, Takama et al [26] assert that both models rely on the assumption of a universal hierarchy of energy and their associated services. This hierarchy according to van der Kroon et al [12] is based on respective characteristics of the various fuel types and thus energy switching or transition is merely a move away from the least desired to the desired or best available alternative fuel.…”

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An empirical analysis of household energy choice in Ghana

Mensah

Adu

2015

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

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An empirical analysis of household energy choice in Ghana

Mensah

Adu

2015

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

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“…Education seems to play a major role in increasing modern fuel consumption and at the same time reducing biomass use [60]. There is general agreement that more highly educated people tend to adopt ICS more frequently than do less-educated people, both men and women [3,15,29,30,32,35,37,38,45,47,52,57,[61][62][63][64][65][66][67][68]. For example, a recent study by Jan et al 2017demonstrates a significant effect of primary or secondary education level on the adoption of ICS in Pakistan compared with no education [10].…”

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“…• Local culture [4][5][6]32,39,56,61,62,77,81,82,87,88,[92][93][94] The cooking practices and dietary preferences related to the local culture strongly reduce the adoption of ICS. Traditional food preparation practices are considered important components of cultural identity.…”

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Drivers and Barriers to Clean Cooking: A Systematic Literature Review from a Consumer Behavior Perspective

2018

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A lack of access to clean energy and use of traditional cooking systems have severe negative effects on health, especially among women and children, and on the environment. Despite increasing attention toward this topic, few studies have explored the factors influencing consumers’ adoption of improved cooking stoves (ICS). This systematic literature review (n = 81) aims to identify the main drivers and barriers to clean cooking from a consumer perspective. In addition, it aims to define how consumers perceive ICS with respect to traditional stoves. Thematic analysis revealed seven factors that may act as drivers or barriers to ICS adoption: economic factors; socio-demographics; fuel availability; attitude toward technology; awareness of the risks of traditional cookstoves and the benefits of ICS; location; and social and cultural influences. Perceptions focused on four topics: convenience and uses, aesthetics, health-related impacts, and environmental impacts. This review contributes to understanding of consumer behavior with regards to ICS. The findings suggest that availability and affordability of technology are not enough to enhance ICS adoption. Rather, policy makers and managers should approach customers with a less technical and a more personalized approach that takes due consideration of a local context and its social and cultural dynamics.

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“…While a positive association between household SES and use of clean cooking fuels has held [32,33,[35][36][37][38][39], the energy ladder hypothesis has been updated to a 'multiple fuel' model [40], encompassing both primary and secondary fuel use and the role of forces outside the household in the clean energy transition [41,42]. More recently, numerous frameworks have been used to address patterns of household fuel use [43][44][45][46][47][48] and larger-scale, nation-wide interventions (subsidies, regulations) have been implemented to change household clean energy decisions [41,49]. Despite the collective effort of various stakeholders, a global lag in uptake of clean cooking fuels suggests that existing policies/interventions may be too narrowly focused to promote clean cooking fuel switching [45,50,51].…”

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Household, community, sub-national and country-level predictors of primary cooking fuel switching in nine countries from the PURE study

Shupler

Hystad

Gustafson

et al. 2019

Environ. Res. Lett.

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Introduction. Switching from polluting (e.g. wood, crop waste, coal) to clean (e.g. gas, electricity) cooking fuels can reduce household air pollution exposures and climate-forcing emissions. While studies have evaluated specific interventions and assessed fuel-switching in repeated cross-sectional surveys, the role of different multilevel factors in household fuel switching, outside of interventions and across diverse community settings, is not well understood. Methods. We examined longitudinal survey data from 24 172 households in 177 rural communities across nine countries within the Prospective Urban and Rural Epidemiology study. We assessed household-level primary cooking fuel switching during a median of 10 years of follow up (∼2005-2015). We used hierarchical logistic regression models to examine the relative importance of household, community, sub-national and national-level factors contributing to primary fuel switching. Results. One-half of study households (12 369) reported changing their primary cooking fuels between baseline and follow up surveys. Of these, 61% (7582) switched from polluting (wood, dung, agricultural waste, charcoal, coal, kerosene) to clean (gas, electricity) fuels, 26% (3109) switched between different polluting fuels, 10% (1164) switched from clean to polluting fuels and 3% (522) switched between different clean fuels. Among the 17 830 households using polluting cooking fuels at baseline, household-level factors (e.g. larger household size, higher wealth, higher education level) were most strongly associated with switching from polluting to clean fuels in India; in all other countries, community-level factors (e.g. larger population density in 2010, larger increase in population density between 2005 and 2015) were the strongest predictors of polluting-to-clean fuel switching. Conclusions. The importance of community and sub-national factors relative to household characteristics in determining polluting-to-clean fuel switching varied dramatically across the nine countries examined. This highlights the potential importance of national and other contextual factors in shaping large-scale clean cooking transitions among rural communities in low-and middle-income countries.

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Evaluating the relative strength of product-specific factors in fuel switching and stove choice decisions in Ethiopia. A discrete choice model of household preferences for clean cooking alternatives

Cited by 71 publications

References 39 publications

An empirical analysis of household energy choice in Ghana

An empirical analysis of household energy choice in Ghana

Drivers and Barriers to Clean Cooking: A Systematic Literature Review from a Consumer Behavior Perspective

Household, community, sub-national and country-level predictors of primary cooking fuel switching in nine countries from the PURE study

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