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Addressing the Impact of Household Energy and Indoor Air Pollution on the Health of the Poor: Implications for policy action and intervention measures
Use of biomass fuels and coal burning indoors leads to levels of indoor air pollution many times higher than international ambient air quality standards allow for, exposing poor women and children on a daily basis to a major public health hazard. This exposure increases the risk of important diseases, and is estimated to account for…
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Review of Interventions to Reduce the Exposure of Women and Young Children to Indoor Air Pollution in Developing Countries
The aim of this paper is to facilitate discussion about potential interventions for reducing human exposure to indoor air pollution in low-income countries (LIC) within a conceptual framework that may be applied to a wide variety of interventions. This main goal may be divided into the following sub goals: To establish a conceptual framework for…
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From the Kitchen to the Boardroom: reflections on power relations in gender and energy practice and policy
The author argues that, in order to succeed in identifying energy needs, it is not sufficient to accurately describe women’s roles but that the emphasis should be on the broader context of the social and power relationships involved in day-to-day activities. She compares and contrasts the domestic responsibilities of two women, one from a middle-class…
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Wood Energy, Women, and Health
This special edition of Wood Energy News on ‘Wood Energy, Women, and Health’ focuses on the health hazards related to the supply and use of biomass energy. It is mostly women who are at risk, and so gender aspects must be major considerations in addressing the problems involved in gathering,transporting, processing etc.
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Gender and energy planning
This paper highlights a number of different positions that can be taken regarding the reason for and purpose of a gender approach in energy planning. The two extreme positions ‘gender for efficiency’ and ‘gender for equity’ are described. Most energy planners are found somewhere in between these extremes. Next the question of how the gender…
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Gender and wood energy
This special edition of Wood Energy News on ‘Gender and Wood Energy’ focuses on a number of issues: it aims to answer why gender in wood energy development is important to take into account, presents gender analysis tools, describes the institutionalisation of the gender approach, country papers on gender and wood energy, and presents the…