Cleaner Hearths, Better Homes: New Stoves for India and the Developing World
Douglas F. Barnes, Priti Kumar, Keith Openshaw |
2012
Type: Research Report
Type: Research Report
Topic: Livelihoods
Country: India
Country: India
Cleaner Hearths, Better Homes: New Stoves for India and the Developing
World has a twofold goal: describing India’s best legacy improved biomass stove
programs and recommending ways in which the international community
can promote stoves that are commercially viable, convenient for users, and
more energy efficient. By implication, there also would be a reduction of
indoor air pollution to more reasonable levels than is common today. To date,
the effectiveness of many of the world’s stove programs has been hindered
by their small scale. Even India’s best case examples faced serious challenges.
But hard-learned lessons from these cases, combined with varied experience
from stove programs around the world, can well serve the international
development community’s efforts to address the energy problems faced by
the poorest populations on our planet.