Environmental and Health Risks of Solid Fuel Use

Health and Environmental Risks of Solid Fuel Use


Nicaragua: A girl carrying a PM2.5 pump to evaluate indoor air pollution from wood cooking stoves. (Prolena)	Guatemala fire and plancha (Janet Socorro de García, Ecofogon)

Emissions Studies

Cooking and Carbon Expert Workshop: Generating Carbon Credits from Cooking, Phillip Mann, Univeristy of Oxford November 2005
Resource list for the health issues related to inhaled smoke, Dr. Peter Coughlin, EconPolicy Research Group, Lda., Maputo, Mozambique, November 2005
Stove Camp Results and Photos, Dean Still, Aprovecho/ETHOS, August 2005
- Emissions Hood Summary (Aug 30, 2005)
- Photos of Test Equipment (Sep 1, 2005)
Clearing the Air, How epidemiology, engineering, and experimentfingered fine particles as airborne killers by Jonathon Shaw, BryanWillson May 2005
Impacts of Greenhouse Gas and Particulate Emissions from Woodfuel Production and End-use in Sub-Saharan Aftrica, Robert Bailis, David Pennise, Majid Ezzati, Daniel M. Kammen, Evans Kituyi 2004.
E. Park, K. Lee, 2003 Particulate exposure and size distribution from wood burning stoves in Costa Rica See Indoor Air Quality References
MUST READ: CO FactSheet, Rob Bailis June 2003 (pdf) (ppt)
How Charcoal Fires Heat the World Environmental Science and Technology Online April 2003 and Rob Bailis, Majid Ezzati, Daniel Kammen, Greenhouse Gas Implications of Household Energy Technology in Kenya, Environmental Science and Technology 2003, 37, 2051-2059
Tami Bond's Web Page includes emissions testing and ETHOS presentations. April 2004
- Emissions Testing for Real People, February 2004
- Measuring Emissions and Exposure, ETHOS, 2004
- Stove Testing Recommendations, ETHOS, 2003
- Emissions Testing of Rocket Stoves, ETHOS, 2002, with Ken Goyer, Larry Winiarski, Dean Still
- Stove Testing Recommendations, ETHOS 2002
Particulate Emissions from Residential Combustion of Coal, Tami Bond (2002) U of Washington
GREENHOUSE GASES FROM SMALL-SCALE COMBUSTION DEVICES IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES: PHASE IIA Household Stoves in India USEPA June 2000
Biomass Combustion: Particulate Matter Emissions (PM2.5) (1997) Aeosol Research Lab, India
TERI Emission Factors for Greenhouse Gases From Small Scale Combustion
Emissions of Rural Woodburning Cooking Devices (Thesis) Grant Ballard Tremeer
Wood Stoves (USA)
- EPA List of Certified Wood Heating Appliances, US EPA Wood Stoves
- Omni-Test Laboratories: Appliance Testing and Emissions Publications

Exposure and Health Studies

Epidemiologic Approaches to Research on Air Quality,Jonathan M. Samet, MD, MS
February 17 and 24, 2005, Johns Hopkins University, Resources for the Future February 2005
World Health Program on Indoor Air Pollution 2005
2nd Indoor Air Thematic Briefing on Health and the Burden of Disease, WHO 2005
WHO Statement on Indoor Air Pollution Women's Day, October 14, 2004, WHO/UNDP (ITDG)
Smoke in the Kitchen: Health impacts of indoor air pollution in developing countries, Global Village Energy Partnership, DFID, London, July 30, 2004, Nigel Bruce, Liz Bates, Linda Doroski
Indoor Air Pollution, African Development Bank (ADB) FINESSE Africa Newsletter, July 2004
Effect of Indoor Air Pollution from Biomass Combustion on Prevalence of Asthma in the Elderly, Vinod Mishra, East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA , Environmental Health Perspectives, Volume 111, Number 1 January 2003
What's Cooking? A review of the health impacts of indoor air pollution and technical interventions for its reduction WELL Study produced under Task 512 by Jessica Budds, Adam Biran and Jonathan RouseOctober 2001
Household Energy and Use: An Introduction, Nigel Bruce, 2002, Sparknet
M Ezzati Mpala Research Station, Kenya
Impact of Air Pollution on Child Respiratory Health, Barnes (pdf 153k) Venter Forest Services, December 2002
Evaline Were Diang'a Health Impacts of Indoor Emissions from Biomass Combustion
Bibliography Indoor Air Quality TERIN
Health and Environmental Effects of Cooking Stove Use in Developing Countries Donna M. Staton & Marcus H. Harding
Jyoti Parikh: EXPOSURE TO AIR POLLUTANTS FROM COMBUSTION OF COOKING FUELS: A CASE STUDY OF RURAL TAMIL NADU, INDIA
Health Effects of Air Pollution: Burning Biomass (1999) World Resources Institute
A Review of Particulate Matter and Health: Focus on Developing Countries Lily Panyacosit (2000) Interim Report IR-00-005, IIASA, Austria
Indoor Air Pollution Risks in Rural China (2000) Society for Risk Analysis (abs)
Cooking With Biomass Stoves And Tuberculosis: A Case Control Study [R. Pérez-Padilla, C. Pérez-Guzmán, R. Báez-Saldaña, International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease 2001;5(5):441-447]
Addressing the Impact of Household Energy and Indoor Air Pollution on the Health of the Poor – Implications for Policy Action and Intervention Measures, Y. von Schirnding, N. Bruce, K. Smith, G. Ballard-Tremeer, M. Ezzati, K. Lvovsky (July 2001) WHO Commission on Macroeconomics and Health WG5 : 12 (pdf)

Fuels and Indoor Air Quality

Shubham Chaudhuri and Alexander S.P. Pfaff, January 2003. Fuel-choice and indoor air quality: a household-level perspective on economic growth and the environment Department of Economics and School of International and Public Affairs Columbia University

Organizations

ITDG
- ITDG Study on Smoke, Health and Household Energy in Kenya, Sudan and Nepal
- Reducing Exposure to Indoor Air Pollution
Partnership for Clean Air, US EPA Brenda Doroski, John Mitchell
World Health Organization Report October 2002
Center for Enterpreneurship in International Health and Development, UC Berkeley, Danan Harmon Charron
UC Berkely, Kirk Smith
- Stove Intervention Study in the Guatemalan Highlands
- Lowering Exposure of Children to Indoor Air Pollution to Prevent Acute Respiratory Infection Environmental Health Project (pdf)
- Overview of the Indian National Burden of Disease from Indoor Air Pollution Kirk R. Smith (July 12/98)
US EPA, UC Berkeley, Princeton, Dan Kammen
- US EPA Indoor Air Pollution Respiratory Research, Dan Kammen
- Research Development and Commercialization of the Kenya Ceramic Jiko and Other Improved Stoves in Africa
- M. Ezzatti, D Kammen, Indoor Air Pollution from Biomass Combustion and Acute Respiratory Infections in Kenya: an Exposure-response Study (pdf)
- UC Berkely Stove Intervention Study in the Guatemalan Highlands
- D Kammen Energy as an Instrument of Socioeconomic Development UNDP II/5 From Energy Efficiency to Social Utility:Lessons from Cookstove Design, Dissemination, and Use
World Bank
- Indoor Air Pollution at a Glance Sept 2003 (pdf November 2003)
- Indoor Air Pollution: Energy and Health for the Poor. An ESMAP World Bank Initiative (Newsletter). http://wbln1018.worldbank.org/sar/sa.nsf
- India Indoor Air Pollution Newsletter, March 2002
World Meteorological Organization, Commission for Climatology (2001) CLIMATE INFORMATION FOR BIOMASS ENERGY APPLICATIONS, SANDRA ROBLES-GIL, COMISION NACIONAL DEL AGUA, Mexico
World Resources Institute Health Effects of Air Pollution

Other Publications

The Urban Household Energy Transition Social and Environmental Impacts in the Developing World Douglas F. Barnes, Kerry Krutilla, and William F. Hyde, 2005/152 pages, ISBN 1-933115-06-8 RFF Press, Resources for the Future
INDOOR AIR POLLUTION IN INDIA – A MAJOR ENVIRONMENTAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH CONCERN, ICMR Bulletin ISSN 0377-4910 Vol.31, No.5 May, 2001
How Charcoal Fires Heat the World Environmental Science and Technology Online April 2003 and Rob Bailis, Majid Ezzati, Daniel Kammen, Greenhouse Gas Implications of Household Energy Technology in Kenya, Environmental Science and Technology 2003, 37, 2051-2059
Natural Resource Regeneration: Its Impact on Behavioral Changes in the use of Cooking Fuels and Health (2001) Marcella D’Souza
ENERGY, ENVIRONMENT AND CLIMATE CHANGE ISSUES: PHILIPPINES, Asian Regional Research Programme in Energy, Environment and Climate (ARRPEEC), SIDA (Swedish International Development Co-operation Agency)
Air Pollution From Cookstoves: Energy Alternatives and Policy in Rural China, Melissa Chan (2000) Carnegie Mellon

GENERAL

Guidelines for Air Quality WHO Geneva 2000