Reducing health impacts of biomass burning for cooking—the need for cookstove performance testing

Abeliotis, Konstadinos; Pakula, Christiane

doi:10.1007/s12053-013-9193-y

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“…Scaling-up the use of improved cookstoves is a central component of this effort. Improved cookstoves are cookstoves that are able to meet the household’s cooking needs, are durable and affordable, are acceptable to the household, consume less fuel than traditional stoves or a three-stone fire, and reduce household air pollution to levels that will improve health [ 17 , 18 ]. These stoves are more efficient than traditional and unimproved stoves because they require less fuel for cooking, less time for gathering fuel, and less time for cooking.…”

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Using Formative Research to Design a Behavior Change Strategy to Increase the Use of Improved Cookstoves in Peri-Urban Kampala, Uganda

Arney

Mueller

et al. 2013

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Household air pollution from cooking with biomass fuels negatively impacts maternal and child health and the environment, and contributes to the global burden of disease. In Uganda, nearly 20,000 young children die of household air pollution-related pneumonia every year. Qualitative research was used to identify behavioral determinants related to the acquisition and use of improved cookstoves in peri-urban Uganda. Results were used to design a behavior change strategy for the introduction of a locally-fabricated top-lit updraft gasifier (TLUD) stove in Wakiso district. A theoretical framework—opportunity, ability, and motivation—was used to guide the research and behavior change strategy development. Participants consistently cited financial considerations as the most influential factor related to improved cookstove acquisition and use. In contrast, participants did not prioritize the potential health benefits of improved cookstoves. The theoretical framework, research methodology, and behavior change strategy design process can be useful for program planners and researchers interested in identifying behavioral determinants and designing and evaluating improved cookstove interventions.

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Using Formative Research to Design a Behavior Change Strategy to Increase the Use of Improved Cookstoves in Peri-Urban Kampala, Uganda

Arney

Mueller

et al. 2013

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“…Fuel consumption can be driven by myriad factors (e.g., geography, climate, and cooking practices), making it highly difficult to develop an adequate one-size-fits-all estimation approach [39]. Emission factors calculated from water boiling tests do not always reflect household emissions from daily cooking activities [40,41]. Johnson et al [42] found that under daily-use conditions, improved Patsari stoves developed for use in rural Mexico performed significantly worse relative to open fires in WBT tests than they had in simulated kitchens-but they also performed significantly better in daily use when making tortillas-a far more common activity.…”

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Assessing the Climate Impacts of Cookstove Projects: Issues in Emissions Accounting

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Chandler

Lazarus

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An estimated 2.6 billion people rely on traditional biomass for home cooking and heating, so improving the efficiency of household cookstoves could provide significant environmental, social and economic benefits. Some researchers have estimated that potential greenhouse gas emission reductions could exceed 1 billion tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) per year. Carbon finance offers a policy mechanism for realizing some of this potential and could also bring improved monitoring to cookstove projects. However, there are formidable methodological challenges in estimating emission reductions. This paper evaluates the quantification approaches to three key variables in calculating emission impacts: biomass fuel consumption, fraction of non-renewable biomass, and emission factors for fuel consumption. It draws on a literature review as well as on interviews with technical experts and market actors, and identifies lessons learned and knowledge gaps. Key research needs identified include incorporating accounting for uncertainty; development of additional default factors for biomass consumption for baseline stoves; refinement of monitoring approaches for cookstove use; broadened scope of emission factors used for cookstoves; accounting for non-CO2 gases and black carbon; and refinement of estimates and approaches to considering emissions from bioenergy use across methodologies.

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“…Estimates published by de Miranda Carneiro et al (2013), based on the use of a spatiallyexplicit land use model to examine the availability of fuelwood, suggest default values for f NRB of wood-fuel on the order of 20-30%, much lower than the prior estimates. Bailis et al (2015) estimate that 27-34% of woodfuel harvested was unsustainable, with large geographic variations, and conclude that cookstove methodologies probably overstate the climate benefits.…”

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“…The primary advantage of the Water Boiling Test is its simplicity and reduced costs; the laboratory-based method is standardized and replicable. However, the laboratory results on stove performance do not necessarily translate to cooking actual meals in households, and thus the accuracy of this method is frequently called into question (Abeliotis & Pakula 2013;Johnson et al 2007). Meanwhile, the Controlled Cooking Test protocol provides a compromise, better representing local cooking while being conducted in a controlled environment.…”

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Synergies and Trade-Offs between Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation across Multiple Scales of Governance

Zia¹

2021

Adaptiveness: Changing Earth System Governance

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Reducing health impacts of biomass burning for cooking—the need for cookstove performance testing

Cited by 15 publications

References 29 publications

Using Formative Research to Design a Behavior Change Strategy to Increase the Use of Improved Cookstoves in Peri-Urban Kampala, Uganda

Using Formative Research to Design a Behavior Change Strategy to Increase the Use of Improved Cookstoves in Peri-Urban Kampala, Uganda

Assessing the Climate Impacts of Cookstove Projects: Issues in Emissions Accounting

Synergies and Trade-Offs between Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation across Multiple Scales of Governance

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