Clean fuels for resource-poor settings: A systematic review of barriers and enablers to adoption and sustained use

Environmental Research

Volumn 146, Issue , 2016, Pages 218-234

  Puzzolo, Elisa ^a,b   Pope, Daniel ^a   Stanistreet, Debbi ^a   Rehfuess, Eva A ^c   Bruce, Nigel G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b The Global LPG Partnership (GLPGP)   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adoption; Clean fuels; Developing countries; Household air pollution; Scaling up

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; ALCOHOL FUEL; BIOGAS; FUEL; LIQUEFIED PETROLEUM GAS; PETROLEUM DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ALCOHOL DERIVATIVE; BIOFUEL; NATURAL GAS;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; DEVELOPING WORLD; FUEL; POLLUTION CONTROL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

AFRICA; ASIA; COOKING; DATA EXTRACTION; ELECTRICITY; ENERGY RESOURCE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HOUSEHOLD; KNOWLEDGE; LAW; MARKET; PERCEPTION; POVERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; REVIEW; RURAL AREA; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TAX; URBAN AREA; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DEVICES; FAMILY SIZE; HUMAN; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PROCEDURES; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOLAR ENERGY; UTILIZATION;

AFRICA; ASIA; LATIN AMERICA;

AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR; ALCOHOLS; BIOFUELS; COOKING; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; HUMANS; NATURAL GAS; POVERTY; SEX FACTORS; SOLAR ENERGY;

EID: 84953888920     PISSN: 00139351     EISSN: 10960953     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2016.01.002     Document Type: Review

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