Adoption and Use of Improved Stoves and Biogas Plants in Rural India

Somnath Hazra (), Ipsita Das, Jessica Lewis and Ashok Singha

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Abstract: Household air pollution remains a dominant health risk, particularly in South Asia. Increasing international attention has focused on improved cookstoves (ICS) as a vehicle for reducing household air pollution, regional environmental and climate impacts. This analysis of ICS adoption adds to the limited literature informing cookstove dissemination programs. In a sample of households from Odisha, India, we find households with ICS have higher socioeconomic and educational status, while households with only a traditional stove spend more money on fuel and more time in hospitals treating respiratory disease.

Keywords: Improved cookstove; biogas; adoption; household air pollution; fuelwood consumption; impact analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014-12
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