Valuing interventions to reduce indoor air pollution-fuelwood, deforestation, and health in rural Nepal

Pakistan Development Review

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2007, Pages

  Pant, Krishna Prasad ^a  

^a National Agriculture Research and Development Fund (NARDF)   (Nepal)

Author keywords

Acute respiratory infections; Asthma; Biogas; Chronic bronchitis; Improved cook stove; Indoor air pollution; Instrumental variable

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BIOGAS; DEFORESTATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FUELWOOD; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH RISK; HEALTH STATUS; HOUSEHOLD ENERGY; INDOOR AIR; LOW INCOME POPULATION; POLLUTION CONTROL; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; RESPIRATORY DISEASE; RURAL AREA;

ASIA; EURASIA; NEPAL; SOUTH ASIA;

CATHARANTHUS ROSEUS;

EID: 69949180851     PISSN: 00309729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.30541/v46i4iipp.1169-1187     Document Type: Conference Paper

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