Abstract

Approximately 3 billion people, most of whom live in Asia, Africa, and the Americas, rely on solid fuels (i.e. wood, crop wastes, dung, charcoal) and kerosene for their cooking needs. Exposure to household air pollution from burning these fuels is estimated to account for approximately 3 million premature deaths a year. Cleaner fuels - such as liquefied petroleum gas, biogas, electricity, and certain compressed biomass fuels - have the potential to alleviate much of this significant health burden. A wide variety of clean cooking intervention programs are being implemented around the world, but very few of these efforts have been analyzed to enable global learning. The Clean Cooking Implementation Science Network (ISN), supported by the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) and partners, identified the need to augment the publicly available literature concerning what has worked well and in what context. The ISN has supported the development of a systematic set of case studies, contained in this Special Issue, examining clean cooking program rollouts in a variety of low- and middle-income settings around the world. We used the RE-AIM (reach, effectiveness, adaptation, implementation, maintenance) framework to coordinate and evaluate the case studies. This paper describes the clean cooking case studies project, introduces the individual studies contained herein, and proposes a general conceptual model to support future planning and evaluation of household energy programs.

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Scale (ratio)Clean energyEnvironmental scienceEnergy (signal processing)Natural resource economicsBusinessEnvironmental economicsAgricultural economicsEconomicsGeographyEnvironmental protectionMathematicsCartographyStatistics

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2018
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46
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1-10
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Ashlinn Quinn, Nigel Bruce, Elisa Puzzolo et al. (2018). An analysis of efforts to scale up clean household energy for cooking around the world. Energy Sustainable Development/Energy for sustainable development , 46 , 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.esd.2018.06.011

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10.1016/j.esd.2018.06.011