Drivers and Impacts of Sustainable Household Energy Transitions in Low and Middle-Income Countries
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Sustainability and Applications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2020) | Viewed by 4326
Special Issue Editor
Interests: Household energy transitions and air pollution impacts in developing countries; Mosquito-borne disease risks and mosquito control policy; Wildfire risk mitigation in the American West; Community perceptions of oil and gas development risks
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Many households in low- and middle-income countries rely on solid fuels to meet their daily needs for cooking, lighting, and heating services. A shift towards cleaner fuels and technologies has the potential for wide ranging benefits that may include air pollution reductions at household-to-global scales, improved human health, reduced deforestation or environmental degradation, time savings, and other social effects. This Special Issue aims to highlight interdisciplinary research and policy analysis studies that address the drivers and impacts of energy transitions in diverse settings. We encourage submissions that include or reflect some combination of the following:
- A focus on energy transitions (shifts over time within a community, country, or region), and their drivers.
- Interdisciplinary projects that incorporate social, physical, and/or health sciences.
- Projects that meaningfully engage community members, implementers, and/or policymakers in their design, implementation, and interpretation.
- Quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-methods approaches.
- Topics or methods that have been underrepresented in the literature.
Papers that are responsive to this call may address the following questions:
- What policies, programs, and interventions have enabled successful transitions to cleaner household energy systems?
- How can we evaluate the sustainability of energy transitions according to economic, social, and environmental criteria?
- What roles have public- and private-sector actors played (or what roles should they play) in successful (or less successful) energy transitions?
- What cultural factors shape household energy transitions? Are there common themes or best practices for taking cultural factors into consideration across cases?
- How do the factors that influence abandonment or disadoption of solid fuels differ from factors that influence uptake or adoption of non-solid fuels?
- How do gender dynamics influence household energy transitions? This can include dynamics at the intra-household scale, as well as larger social power structures (e.g., ownership of assets, access to financing, political decision-making).
Papers that will typically not be responsive to this call include:
- Analyses of investigator-led intervention studies (e.g., randomized controlled trials) and their impacts on a single type of outcome (e.g., health effects);
- Studies focused on measuring the negative impacts of current energy use patterns, without a focus on energy transitions.
Prof. Katherine Dickinson
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- household energy
- energy poverty
- household air pollution
- improved cookstoves
- clean fuels
- cooking, lighting, heating
- electrification
