Journal ArticleAgricultural Water Management · September 1, 2024
The main objective of this study is to understand the interlinkages between different irrigation technologies and management systems and environmental outcomes. We use a unique and comprehensive household and plot-level dataset covering ten districts of Et ...
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Journal ArticleRenewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews · March 1, 2024
Off grid solar electrification of remote, rural communities that are difficult to reach cost-effectively through grid extension is a core component of Ethiopia's energy access strategy. One emerging business model in such locations, which aims to maintain ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Cleaner Production · January 1, 2024
Interest in large-scale compressed biogas (CBG) and biogas for electricity generation is increasing due to these technologies’ potential for addressing dual energy and waste management challenges. However, sustainable operation of large-scale commercial bi ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Benefit-Cost Analysis · January 1, 2024
Energy access is often considered a catalyst for development. Yet, the binary classification of household electrification misses important variation in service quality and in how households use electricity. To examine the benefits of household electrificat ...
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Journal ArticleCommunications Medicine · December 1, 2023
Introduction: Public perception of the seriousness of the COVID-19 pandemic compared to six other major public health problems (alcoholism and drug use, HIV/AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis, lung cancer and respiratory diseases caused by air pollution and smoki ...
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Journal ArticleRenewable Energy · November 1, 2023
In light of recent growth and falling costs of solar photovoltaic technology, this paper examines the barriers and opportunities facing off-grid development in Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda, four countries whose off-grid sectors vary in maturity. We ...
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Journal ArticleDevelopment Engineering · November 1, 2023
Household air pollution from biomass cooking is the most significant environmental health risk in the Global South. Interventions to address this risk mostly promote less-polluting stoves and clean fuels, but their diffusion has proven difficult. This pape ...
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Journal ArticleNeurotoxicology and teratology · November 2023
Fluoride (F) exposure in drinking water may lead to reduced cognitive function among children; however, findings largely remain inconclusive. In this pilot study, we examined associations between a range of chronic F exposures (low to high: 0.4 to 15.5 mg/ ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Hydrology: Regional Studies · August 1, 2023
Study Region: The Kwando (Cuando) River and the western headwaters of the Zambezi River, which are data-scarce basins of southern Africa. Study Focus: A comparative analysis of the performance of two fundamentally different hydrological modelling approache ...
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Journal ArticleWater Economics and Policy · June 1, 2023
Globally, billions of people rely on piped water and sanitation services delivered by municipal water utilities, but many of these systems, particularly in low-and middle-income countries (LMICs) are plagued by chronic problems of inequitable access, inter ...
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Journal ArticleWorld Development Perspectives · June 1, 2023
The use of solid fuels for cooking is a major contributor to mortality, disease burden, and environmental harm in many countries. To tackle the problem, India expanded access to a cleaner and often subsidized alternative, liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), but ...
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Journal ArticleWater Resources Research · June 1, 2023
Impact evaluation (IE) of large infrastructure presents numerous challenges, and investments in urban piped water and sanitation are no exception. Here we present methods for more systematic assessment of the implications of such interventions, discussing ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of trace elements in medicine and biology : organ of the Society for Minerals and Trace Elements (GMS) · May 2023
BackgroundSelenium (Se) plays an important role in human health, yet Se overexposure or deficiency can lead to deleterious health effects. This study aims to determine the concentration of Se in drinking water and staple cereal grain (maize, wheat ...
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Journal ArticleNature Energy · May 1, 2023
The world remains far from meeting Sustainable Development Goals 5 (gender equality) and 7 (universal access to modern energy). Energy access may empower women even as empowered women are more likely to adopt and use modern energy services. Such bidirectio ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Environmental Economics and Management · May 1, 2023
We study the response of residential water demand to nonlinear prices by exploiting a natural experiment arising from a water pricing reform in a major Chinese city. The reform introduced an unconventional Increasing Block Tariff featuring prices set accor ...
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Journal ArticleNature Sustainability · April 1, 2023
Universal clean cooking is a key target under Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 7, with implications for several other SDGs, such as good health, gender equality and climate. Yet, 2.4 billion people globally still lack access to clean cooking. The situati ...
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Journal ArticleEnvironmental Research Letters · April 1, 2023
Gender equity is connected to modern energy services in many ways, but quantitative empirical work on these connections is limited. We examine the relationship between a multi-dimensional measure of women’s empowerment and access to improved cookstoves, cl ...
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Journal ArticleEnergy Economics · March 1, 2023
Rising household income may affect energy technology choice and total fuel consumption, with significant implications for the environment and health. Yet the causal connection between income and fuel choice is difficult to pin down, given the endogeneity b ...
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Journal ArticleSustainable Development · February 1, 2023
The energy mix in Nepal is currently dominated by the traditional and inefficient use of biomass (66.54%) and fossil fuels (27.24%), and energy poverty remains extremely high. This paper reviews relevant literature to provide an overview of the current ren ...
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Journal ArticleWorld Development · January 1, 2023
Migration impacts left-behind populations, disrupting established norms of social interaction, participation, and inclusion. In western Nepal, labour migration is common among young men, with implications for household and community participation among tho ...
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Journal ArticleAgricultural Water Management · September 1, 2024
The main objective of this study is to understand the interlinkages between different irrigation technologies and management systems and environmental outcomes. We use a unique and comprehensive household and plot-level dataset covering ten districts of Et ...
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Journal ArticleRenewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews · March 1, 2024
Off grid solar electrification of remote, rural communities that are difficult to reach cost-effectively through grid extension is a core component of Ethiopia's energy access strategy. One emerging business model in such locations, which aims to maintain ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Cleaner Production · January 1, 2024
Interest in large-scale compressed biogas (CBG) and biogas for electricity generation is increasing due to these technologies’ potential for addressing dual energy and waste management challenges. However, sustainable operation of large-scale commercial bi ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Benefit-Cost Analysis · January 1, 2024
Energy access is often considered a catalyst for development. Yet, the binary classification of household electrification misses important variation in service quality and in how households use electricity. To examine the benefits of household electrificat ...
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Journal ArticleCommunications Medicine · December 1, 2023
Introduction: Public perception of the seriousness of the COVID-19 pandemic compared to six other major public health problems (alcoholism and drug use, HIV/AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis, lung cancer and respiratory diseases caused by air pollution and smoki ...
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Journal ArticleRenewable Energy · November 1, 2023
In light of recent growth and falling costs of solar photovoltaic technology, this paper examines the barriers and opportunities facing off-grid development in Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda, four countries whose off-grid sectors vary in maturity. We ...
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Journal ArticleDevelopment Engineering · November 1, 2023
Household air pollution from biomass cooking is the most significant environmental health risk in the Global South. Interventions to address this risk mostly promote less-polluting stoves and clean fuels, but their diffusion has proven difficult. This pape ...
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Journal ArticleNeurotoxicology and teratology · November 2023
Fluoride (F) exposure in drinking water may lead to reduced cognitive function among children; however, findings largely remain inconclusive. In this pilot study, we examined associations between a range of chronic F exposures (low to high: 0.4 to 15.5 mg/ ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Hydrology: Regional Studies · August 1, 2023
Study Region: The Kwando (Cuando) River and the western headwaters of the Zambezi River, which are data-scarce basins of southern Africa. Study Focus: A comparative analysis of the performance of two fundamentally different hydrological modelling approache ...
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Journal ArticleWater Economics and Policy · June 1, 2023
Globally, billions of people rely on piped water and sanitation services delivered by municipal water utilities, but many of these systems, particularly in low-and middle-income countries (LMICs) are plagued by chronic problems of inequitable access, inter ...
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Journal ArticleWorld Development Perspectives · June 1, 2023
The use of solid fuels for cooking is a major contributor to mortality, disease burden, and environmental harm in many countries. To tackle the problem, India expanded access to a cleaner and often subsidized alternative, liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), but ...
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Journal ArticleWater Resources Research · June 1, 2023
Impact evaluation (IE) of large infrastructure presents numerous challenges, and investments in urban piped water and sanitation are no exception. Here we present methods for more systematic assessment of the implications of such interventions, discussing ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of trace elements in medicine and biology : organ of the Society for Minerals and Trace Elements (GMS) · May 2023
BackgroundSelenium (Se) plays an important role in human health, yet Se overexposure or deficiency can lead to deleterious health effects. This study aims to determine the concentration of Se in drinking water and staple cereal grain (maize, wheat ...
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Journal ArticleNature Energy · May 1, 2023
The world remains far from meeting Sustainable Development Goals 5 (gender equality) and 7 (universal access to modern energy). Energy access may empower women even as empowered women are more likely to adopt and use modern energy services. Such bidirectio ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Environmental Economics and Management · May 1, 2023
We study the response of residential water demand to nonlinear prices by exploiting a natural experiment arising from a water pricing reform in a major Chinese city. The reform introduced an unconventional Increasing Block Tariff featuring prices set accor ...
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Journal ArticleNature Sustainability · April 1, 2023
Universal clean cooking is a key target under Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 7, with implications for several other SDGs, such as good health, gender equality and climate. Yet, 2.4 billion people globally still lack access to clean cooking. The situati ...
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Journal ArticleEnvironmental Research Letters · April 1, 2023
Gender equity is connected to modern energy services in many ways, but quantitative empirical work on these connections is limited. We examine the relationship between a multi-dimensional measure of women’s empowerment and access to improved cookstoves, cl ...
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Journal ArticleEnergy Economics · March 1, 2023
Rising household income may affect energy technology choice and total fuel consumption, with significant implications for the environment and health. Yet the causal connection between income and fuel choice is difficult to pin down, given the endogeneity b ...
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Journal ArticleSustainable Development · February 1, 2023
The energy mix in Nepal is currently dominated by the traditional and inefficient use of biomass (66.54%) and fossil fuels (27.24%), and energy poverty remains extremely high. This paper reviews relevant literature to provide an overview of the current ren ...
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Journal ArticleWorld Development · January 1, 2023
Migration impacts left-behind populations, disrupting established norms of social interaction, participation, and inclusion. In western Nepal, labour migration is common among young men, with implications for household and community participation among tho ...
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Journal ArticleUtilities Policy · December 1, 2022
Until recently, the price of electricity in Ethiopia was among the lowest in the world. Such low prices have contributed to a substantial financial deficit for the government-owned electric utility and led to a degradation in the quality of electricity ser ...
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Journal ArticleResources, Environment and Sustainability · December 1, 2022
Due to worsening air quality across many cities in developing countries, there is an urgent need to consider more aggressive air pollution control measures. Valuation of the benefits of clean air is crucial for establishing the rationale for such policies, ...
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Report · November 22, 2022
United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 7.1 sets a target of ensuring universal access to affordable, reliable, and modern energy services by 2030. Unfortunately, many low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) are well off course to meet this target, es ...
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Journal ArticleEnergy Policy · November 1, 2022
In low-income countries such as Ethiopia, pre-paid metering is often argued to alleviate several challenges with traditional electricity billing systems, including high non-payment rate, pilferage and fraud, administrative and enforcement costs for utiliti ...
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Journal ArticleEnergy Policy · November 1, 2022
African power sectors are plagued with financial unsustainability, low rates of grid connection, and high consumer prices relative to other regions in the Global South. Reforms to electricity tariffs are a tool for decision makers to reduce costly energy s ...
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Journal ArticleEnergy for Sustainable Development · October 1, 2022
Overcoming cooking fuel “stacking” is a major challenge impeding transitions to clean cooking in low- and middle-income countries. Though clean fuels are increasingly available in these countries' urban centers, continued use of polluting technology reinfo ...
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Report · September 14, 2022
This paper investigates challenges throughout the international climate finance landscape and recommends pathways for how investments into low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) can more effectively drive low-carbon development. The paper focuses on thre ...
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Journal ArticleEnvironmental Research Letters · August 1, 2022
In their recent paper in ERL, ‘Egypt’s water budget deficit and suggested mitigation policies for the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) filling scenarios,’ Heggy et al (2021 Environ. Res. Lett. 16 074022) paint an alarming picture of the water deficit ...
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Report · July 18, 2022
Ethiopia’s levels of agricultural productivity and energy access are among the lowest in the world. Now Ethiopia is moving forward with the new Distributed Renewable Energy-Agriculture Modalities (DREAM) project to test distributed solar mini-grids as a so ...
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Journal ArticleExposure and Health · March 1, 2022
Exposure to metals has been hypothesized as possible cause of chronic kidney disease of unknown cause (CKDu) in Sri Lanka; however, evidence is inconclusive. We measured the concentrations of nephrotoxic metals (As, Pb, and Cd), as well as Se in rice (a st ...
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Journal ArticleAntioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · December 2021
Blood biomarkers of oxidative stress and inflammation have been associated with increased risk of hypertension development; yet their application in sub-Saharan Africa has been limited due to the lack of blood collection facilities. In this study, we evalu ...
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Journal ArticleEnergy Economics · October 1, 2021
Three billion people around the world lack access to affordable and reliable clean cooking energy. The case for clean energy has largely been built around health and or environmental benefits, neglecting potentially sizeable benefit(s): when households hav ...
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Journal ArticleEnergy Economics · October 1, 2021
In many developing countries, electricity consumers experience frequent supply interruptions, leading to high coping costs and stifled investment, which contribute to energy poverty. In 2019, we implemented stated preference experiments to estimate househo ...
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Journal ArticleEconomics Letters · September 1, 2021
Economists generally believe that more choice is beneficial, yet bigger choice sets can impose opportunity, error and cognitive costs that lower demand. We study this relationship in the context of rural energy use in low-income settings. We invited approx ...
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Journal ArticleEnvironmental Science and Technology Letters · August 10, 2021
Food, energy, and water (FEW) sectors are inextricably linked, making one sector vulnerable to disruptions in another. Interactions between FEW systems, viral pandemics, and human health have not been widely studied. We mined scientific and news/media arti ...
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Journal ArticleUtilities Policy · August 1, 2021
The global population is rapidly urbanizing, increasing pressure on scarce water resources. Lahore, Pakistan, is a case in point, with limited options for increasing water supply to meet booming demand. We ask whether households are willing to pay more cos ...
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Journal ArticleOne Earth · June 18, 2021
Nearly three billion people continue to use woodfuels for their daily cooking. The global policy discourse increasingly emphasizes clean fuels, notably gas and electricity, but these are expensive, and their supply chains typically interrupted, especially ...
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Journal ArticleClimate · June 1, 2021
This work aims to assess water quality for irrigated agriculture, alongside perceptions and adaptations of farmers to climate change in the Main Ethiopian Rift (MER). Climate change is expected to cause a rise in temperature and variability in rainfall in ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of thoracic disease · June 2021
BackgroundThere are few oxidative biomarkers that can be used in resource-limited settings (e.g., rural Africa) where blood collection facilities are lacking. This study aims to evaluate the potential of malondialdehyde (MDA) in dried blood spots ...
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Journal ArticleClean Energy · March 1, 2021
Clean-cooking energy is key to meeting climate-mitigation goals and a range of development objectives, especially for improving the well-being of women and children. Inefficient burning of solid biomass for cooking releases household air pollution that is ...
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Journal ArticleInternational Journal of Water Resources Development · January 1, 2021
Water resources can play significant roles in development pathways for water-endowed, low-income countries like Nepal. This article describes three visions for water resource development in the Karnali and Mahakali Basins of Western Nepal: state-led develo ...
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Journal ArticleRenewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews · January 1, 2021
Energy has been called the “golden thread” that connects economic growth, social equity and environmental sustainability, but important knowledge gaps exist on the impacts of low- and middle-income country energy interventions and transitions. This study o ...
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Journal ArticleInternational Journal of Water Resources Development · January 1, 2021
Jordan is extremely water scarce, making careful water resources planning and management essential. This study considers the water-supply-enhancing effects of a significant urban investment, the Jordan Compact, that supports Jordan’s national objective of ...
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Journal ArticlePloS one · January 2021
Cooking with polluting and inefficient fuels and technologies is responsible for a large set of global harms, ranging from health and time losses among the billions of people who are energy poor, to environmental degradation at a regional and global scale. ...
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Journal ArticleWater Economics and Policy · January 1, 2021
Though water scarcity threats are increasing in severity across many regions of the world, allocation often remains inefficient-as in Jordan, the site of this study. One commonly discussed solution for increasing resource availability in water-scarce regio ...
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Journal ArticleLand Economics · January 1, 2021
Though there is little evidence on its effectiveness, a decentralized community water system (CWS), such as a market-based kiosk, is thought to be appropriate where piped services are infeasible or unreliable. We assess changes in household behaviors, wate ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Water Sanitation and Hygiene for Development · December 1, 2020
Community-led total sanitation (CLTS) has triggered households around the world to adopt latrines, but evidence suggests that CLTS does not usually lead to universal latrine coverage. Additional interventions, such as subsidies for the poor, may be necessa ...
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Journal ArticleNature communications · October 2020
When construction of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) is completed, the Nile will have two of the world's largest dams-the High Aswan Dam (HAD) and the GERD-in two different countries (Egypt and Ethiopia). There is not yet agreement on how these ...
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Journal ArticleEnvironmental Research Letters · October 1, 2020
Energy is crucial to household health and consumption needs, and for enabling productive uses that enhance development. Yet increasing energy use also affects climate change. While 'off-grid' renewable solutions offer the possibility of climate-sensitive d ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Benefit-Cost Analysis · September 1, 2020
We analyze the economic costs and benefits of community-led total sanitation (CLTS), a sanitation intervention that relies on community-level behavioral change, in a hypothetical rural region in sub-Saharan Africa with 200 villages and 100,000 people. The ...
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Journal ArticleEnvironmental Modelling and Software · August 1, 2020
Governments and social benefit organizations are expected to consider evidence in decision-making. In development and sustainability, evidence spans disciplines and methodological traditions and is often inconclusive. Graphical models are widely promoted t ...
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Journal ArticleEnergy for Sustainable Development · August 1, 2020
Biomass-burning improved cookstoves (ICS) are often seen as a promising intermediate technology solution along the path of household transition to cleaner cooking. This study reports on the results of an experimental evaluation of a carbon finance-enabled ...
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Journal ArticleBone Reports · June 1, 2020
Background: Various studies, mostly with animals, have provided evidence of adverse impacts of fluoride (F-) on bone density, collagen and microstructure, yet its effects on overall bone quality (strength) has not been clearly or extensively characterized ...
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Journal ArticleWater Resources and Economics · April 1, 2020
Basin-wide planning requires tools and strategies that allow comparison of alternative pathways and priorities at relevant spatial and temporal scales. In this paper, we apply a hydroeconomic model–the Western Nepal Energy Water Model–that better accounts ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists · March 1, 2020
Preference heterogeneity can influence behavior in economically significant ways, thereby influencing the effectiveness of environmental policies or interventions. We test this hypothesis in the context of efficient cooking technology in India. We use stat ...
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Journal ArticleOxford Review of Economic Policy · March 1, 2020
Dams provide a host of benefits to societies, helping to balance variability in water availability with demand for multiple uses, allowing power generation, providing and enhancing recreation opportunities, and offering protection against damaging floods. ...
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Journal ArticleOxford Review of Economic Policy · March 1, 2020
Our purpose in this paper is to review the findings of 14 randomized controlled trials (RCTs) of community-led total sanitation (CLTS) and recent rural sanitation interventions to assess their usefulness and implications for sanitation policy-making in low ...
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Journal ArticlePloS one · January 2020
This paper presents country-level estimates of water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH)-related mortality and the economic losses associated with poor access to water and sanitation infrastructure in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) from 1990 to 2050. We examine the e ...
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Journal ArticleEcology and Society · January 1, 2020
The term “environmental flows” refers to a combination of features, including quantity, quality, and timing of water flows required to sustainably maintain a river’s health, balancing both ecological and societal needs. Incorporating basic human livelihood ...
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Journal ArticleBulletin of the World Health Organization · August 2019
ObjectiveTo evaluate the long-term impact of a community-led total sanitation campaign in rural India.MethodsLocal organizations in Odisha state, India worked with researchers to evaluate a community-led total sanitation campaign, which a ...
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Journal ArticleCurrent Opinion in Environmental Sustainability · August 1, 2019
Although health, development, and environment challenges are interconnected, evidence remains fractured across sectors due to methodological and conceptual differences in research and practice. Aligned methods are needed to support Sustainable Development ...
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Journal ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · July 2019
Improved cookstoves (ICS) can deliver "triple wins" by improving household health, local environments, and global climate. Yet their potential is in doubt because of low and slow diffusion, likely because of constraints imposed by differences in culture, g ...
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Journal ArticleScience of the Total Environment · June 25, 2019
Using data collected from a large household survey in Singapore, from a population that mostly drinks tap water but where the majority of households also boil that water, we investigate the nature and determinants of perceptions of drinking water supplies, ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Water Resources Planning and Management · June 1, 2019
This paper presents an ex ante analysis of a novel groundwater management reform being considered by irrigators in the Diamond Valley, Nevada. Groundwater extraction for irrigation in the valley has considerably exceeded the natural recharge rate since the ...
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Report · April 4, 2019
On February 21, 2019, Duke University’s Energy Access Project and Oxfam cohosted a meeting of approximately 60 energy practitioners and researchers to discuss the role of electricity access in spurring productive use. A motivation for this convening was a ...
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Journal ArticleWater Resources and Economics · April 1, 2019
Information systems can yield economic value by providing data and analyses that are useful for improving water operations and planning. Working from a simple typology of water management domains that acknowledges the coupling of supply and demand, we char ...
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Journal ArticleInternational journal of hygiene and environmental health · April 2019
Biomonitoring of chemical concentrations in humans is important for detecting, monitoring, and addressing a wide range of health threats. However, it is virtually absent across many African nations, including Ethiopia. This study aims to determine urinary ...
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Journal ArticleEcological Economics · April 1, 2019
Environmental quality is rarely prioritized along the development pathways of developing countries, even though little is known about how individuals in these settings value intact environments. In 2017, we conducted a survey with a representative sample o ...
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Journal ArticleEnvironmental science & technology · April 2019
Access to continuous water supply is key for improving health and economic outcomes in rural areas of low- and middle-income countries, but the factors associated with continuous water access in these areas have not been well-characterized. We surveyed 478 ...
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Journal ArticleEnergy Policy · October 1, 2018
Inefficient household cooking in less-developed countries harms health and productivity, the environment, and the global climate. Interventions to encourage adoption of cleaner and more fuel-efficient stoves are being implemented widely to reduce these bur ...
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Journal ArticleEcological Economics · October 1, 2018
In India, sacred groves have been considered the forested abodes of one or multiple deities and are often managed by communal governance systems. As land development has progressed, the population surrounding these and other green spaces has changed, and r ...
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Journal ArticleEnvironmental Science and Policy · August 1, 2018
Resource-constrained households are often forced to make complex tradeoffs across multiple environmental health risks. In the Ethiopian Rift Valley, households face tradeoffs between relatively plentiful but fluoride-contaminated groundwater sources and se ...
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OtherWIDER Working Paper · May 31, 2018
Interventions in remote, rural settings face high transaction costs. We develop a model of household decision-making to evaluate how non-governmental organizations (NGOs) address these implementation-related challenges and influence intervention effectiven ...
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Journal ArticleEnvironmental science & technology · May 2018
Household-specific feedback on the microbiological safety of drinking water may result in changes to water management practices that reduce exposure risks. We conducted a randomized, controlled trial in India to determine if information on household drinki ...
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Journal ArticleEcological Economics · April 1, 2018
We compare two methods—contingent valuation and averting expenditures—to measure the demand for improved water reliability in urban Jordan. Traditionally, averting expenditures (a revealed preference measure) have been considered a lower bound for demand r ...
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Journal ArticlePloS one · January 2018
IntroductionLow levels of household access to basic environmental health assets (EHAs)-including technologies such as clean cookstoves and bed nets or infrastructure such as piped water and electricity-in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) a ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Environmental Economics and Management · November 1, 2017
Providing information about environmental health risks only sometimes induces protective action. This raises questions about whether and how risk information is understood and acted upon, and how responses vary across contexts. To characterize such variati ...
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Journal ArticleThe Science of the total environment · October 2017
This study examined the relation between fluoride (F-) concentrations in fingernail clippings and urine and the prevalence and severity of enamel fluorosis (EF) among Ethiopian Rift Valley populations exposed to high levels of F- in d ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Water Resources Planning and Management · August 1, 2017
Increasing demand for water coupled with reduced water availability in many regions of the world is leading to growing water scarcity and calls for implementation of a range of technological, institutional, and economic solutions.Water-economy models (WEMs ...
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Journal ArticleEnvironmental Research Letters · June 29, 2017
Improved cookstoves and fuels, such as advanced gasifier stoves, carry the promise of improving health outcomes, preserving local environments, and reducing climate-forcing air pollutants. However, low adoption and use of these stoves in many settings has ...
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Journal ArticleEnvironmental Research Letters · March 8, 2017
While much work has examined approaches to increase uptake of a variety of household environmental, health and energy technologies, researchers and policymakers alike have struggled to ensure long-term use. Drawing on a pilot-scale experiment conducted in ...
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Journal ArticleWater International · February 17, 2017
This article employs a hydro-economic optimization model to analyze the effects of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam on the distribution and magnitude of benefits in the Eastern Nile. Scenarios are considered based on plausible institutional arrangements ...
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Journal ArticlePLoS One · 2017
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the cost-effectiveness of a quality improvement intervention aimed at reducing maternal and fetal mortality in Accra, Ghana. DESIGN: Quasi-experimental, time-sequence intervention, retrospective cost-effectiveness analysis. METHODS: ...
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Report · October 17, 2016
In Nevada’s Diamond Valley, unsustainable groundwater pumping has decreased the aquifer’s water level, raising irrigators’ pumping costs and threatening the viability of existing wells and springs. Continued extraction in excess of natural recharge will tr ...
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Journal ArticleEnvironment and Development Economics · June 1, 2016
Low demand for safe water may partly result from a perceived distaste towards or the inconvenience of treatment methods. This paper analyzes preferences for water quality improvements in peri-urban Phnom Penh. The authors first analyze data from a discrete ...
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Journal ArticlePolicy and Society · June 1, 2016
In water resources, there is a long tradition of utilization of methods to address hydrological and economic uncertainty. Less frequently considered, however, is how uncertainty rooted in political factors such as power asymmetry, the strength of instituti ...
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Journal ArticleClin J Am Soc Nephrol · March 7, 2016
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Epidemics of CKD of uncertain etiology (CKDu) are emerging around the world. Highlighting common risk factors for CKD of uncertain etiology across various regions and populations may be important for health policy and public heal ...
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Journal ArticleResource and Energy Economics · February 1, 2016
Despite widespread global efforts to promote clean cookstoves to achieve improvements in air and forest quality, and to reduce global climate change, surprisingly little is known about the degree to which these actually reduce biomass fuel consumption in r ...
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Journal ArticleWater Resources and Economics · January 1, 2016
Water scarcity driven by climate change, growing demand, and inefficient management of water and related infrastructure is a serious threat to livelihoods in the Aral Sea Basin (ASB) of Central Asia. In recent decades, downstream water shortages have becom ...
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Journal ArticleGlobal Environmental Change · January 1, 2016
Climate change is expected to have particularly severe effects on poor agrarian populations. Rural households in developing countries adapt to the risks and impacts of climate change both individually and collectively. Empirical research has shown that acc ...
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Journal ArticleIWMI Research Report · January 1, 2016
Efficient use of water resources is gaining priority in global development policy debates due to the increasing demand for water from agriculture, industry, energy production and ecosystem services. This study systematically reviews the recent hydro-econom ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2016
Key messages • The Ganga is an incredibly important resource for over 600 million people living in South Asia, and delivers a wide variety of economic benefits across the riparian countries that include irrigation, domestic and industrial water supply, hyd ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2016
Introduction The Ganges Basin and its downstream delta, covering an area of roughly 1.2 million km2 and home to more than 500 million people living in China, Nepal, India and Bangladesh, is the most populous river system in the world. People living in the ...
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Journal ArticleEnergy Economics · November 1, 2015
Because emissions from solid fuel burning in traditional stoves impact global climate change, the regional environment, and household health, there is today real interest in improved cook stoves (ICS). Nonetheless, surprisingly little is known about what h ...
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Journal ArticleAnnual Review of Resource Economics · October 5, 2015
Traditional energy technologies and consumer products contribute to household well-being in diverse ways but also often harm household air quality. We review the problem of household air pollution at a global scale, focusing particularly on the harmful eff ...
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Journal ArticleWater International · September 19, 2015
The construction of the Rogun Dam in the Amu Darya Basin to increase upstream energy generation creates potential trade-offs with existing downstream irrigation, due to the different timing of energy and irrigation water demands. The present analysis, base ...
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Journal ArticleClimate Dynamics · July 2015
Kiremt-season (June–September) precipitation provides a significant water supply for Ethiopia, particularly in the central and northern regions. The response of Kiremt-season precipitation to climate change is thus of great concern to water resource manage ...
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Journal ArticleThe Science of the total environment · June 2015
Chronic kidney disease of unknown ("u") cause (CKDu) is a growing public health concern in Sri Lanka. Prior research has hypothesized a link with drinking water quality, but rigorous studies are lacking. This study assesses the relationship between nephrot ...
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Journal ArticleMiddle East Development Journal · January 2, 2015
Faced with increasing water scarcity, policy makers in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) are increasingly interested in tapping non-conventional water resources, such as recycled wastewater, to meet demands for water. Yet despite its perceived advant ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of health communication · January 2015
Despite the potential of improved cookstoves to reduce the adverse environmental and health impacts of solid fuel use, their adoption and use remains low. Social marketing-with its focus on the marketing mix of promotion, product, price, and place-offers a ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2015
Introduction In economics, an individual’s demand is generally deemed to be equivalent to his/her willingness (and ability) to pay (WTP) for a specific unit of a good or service. The concept of demand is theoretically simple; in practice, however, measurin ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2015
Introduction Cost-benefit analysis (CBA) and Cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) are two specific methodologies that aim to provide guidance on how to best allocate scarce resources across potential interventions or investments (Petitti 1999, Boardman et al. ...
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Journal ArticleSci Total Environ · October 15, 2014
This cross-sectional study explores the relationships between children's F(-) exposure from drinking groundwater and urinary F(-) concentrations, combined with dental fluorosis (DF) in the Main Ethiopian Rift (MER) Valley. We examined the DF prevalence and ...
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Journal ArticleEnvironmental Research Letters · October 1, 2014
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Though there are surprisingly few estimates of the economic benefits of coordinated infrastructure development and operations in international river basins, there is a widespread belief that improved cooperation is beneficial for managing water scarcity an ...
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Journal ArticleSci Total Environ · August 1, 2014
Elevated level of fluoride (F(-)) in drinking water is a well-recognized risk factor of dental fluorosis (DF). While considering optimization of region-specific standards for F(-), it is reasonable, however, to consider how local diet, water sourcing pract ...
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Journal ArticleWater International · July 1, 2014
Hydropower and irrigation developments to address rising demand for food and energy are modifying the water balance of the Mekong Basin. Infrastructure investment decisions are also frequently made from a sub-catchment perspective. This paper compares rive ...
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Journal ArticleBulletin of the World Health Organization · April 2014
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Existing and proposed metrics for household drinking-water services are intended to measure the availability, safety and accessibility of water sources. However, these attributes can be highly variable over time and space and this variation complicates the ...
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Journal ArticleTropical medicine & international health : TM & IH · February 2014
ObjectivesThe objective of this study was to investigate the quality of on-plot piped water and rainwater at the point of consumption in an area with rapidly expanding coverage of 'improved' water sources.MethodsCross-sectional study of 9 ...
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Journal ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health · January 2014
Improved cook stoves (ICS) have been widely touted for their potential to deliver the triple benefits of improved household health and time savings, reduced deforestation and local environmental degradation, and reduced emissions of black carbon, a signifi ...
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Journal ArticleWater Resources Research · January 1, 2014
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This article presents a methodology for planning new water resources infrastructure investments and operating strategies in a world of climate change uncertainty. It combines a real options (e.g., options to defer, expand, contract, abandon, switch use, or ...
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Journal ArticleWater Policy · January 1, 2014
The escalation of tensions between Ethiopia and Egypt over the construction of the Grand Renaissance is at least partly based on a misunderstanding of the nature of the risks this dam poses to Egypt. There is a two-part, win-win deal that can defuse tensio ...
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Journal ArticleWater Policy · October 17, 2013
It is often argued that the true benefits of water resource development in international river basins are undermined by a lack of consideration of interdependence in water resource planning. Yet it has not been adequately recognized in the water resources ...
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Journal ArticleWater Policy · October 17, 2013
This paper presents the first basin-wide assessment of the potential impact of climate change on the hydrology and production of the Ganges system, undertaken as part of the World Bank's Ganges Strategic Basin Assessment. A series of modeling efforts - dow ...
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Journal ArticleWater Policy · October 17, 2013
This paper summarizes the results of the Ganges Strategic Basin Assessment (SBA), a 3-year, multi-disciplinary effort undertaken by a World Bank team in cooperation with several leading regional research institutions in South Asia. It begins to fill a cruc ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of water and health · September 2013
This paper studies household demand for improved water quality in peri-urban Cambodia, with particular attention paid to the influence of water quality on willingness to pay (WTP). Utilizing data from 915 household surveys, we analyze responses to a contin ...
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Journal ArticlePLoS One · 2013
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The problem of inadequate access to water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) in less-developed nations has received much attention over the last several decades (most recently in the Millennium Development Goals), largely because diseases associated with such ...
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Journal ArticleEnviron Int · August 2012
This study aims to assess the link between fluoride content in groundwater and its impact on dental health in rural communities of the Ethiopian Rift. A total of 148 water samples were collected from two drainage basins within the Main Ethiopian Rift (MER) ...
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Journal ArticleThe American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene · July 2012
How does specific information about contamination in a household's drinking water affect water handling behavior? We randomly split a sample of households in rural Andhra Pradesh, India. The treatment group observed a contamination test of the drinking wat ...
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Journal ArticleEnvironmental and Resource Economics · January 1, 2012
Previous studies have found that contingent valuation (CV) respondents who are given overnight to reflect on a CV scenario have 30-40% lower average willingness-to-pay (WTP) than respondents who are interviewed in a single session. This "time to think" (TT ...
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Journal ArticlePLoS One · 2012
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Current attention to improved cook stoves (ICS) focuses on the "triple benefits" they provide, in improved health and time savings for households, in preservation of forests and associated ecosystem services, and in reducing emissions that contribute to gl ...
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Journal ArticleWorld Development · 2012
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The paper challenges the conventional wisdom that water and sanitation improvements and other preventive health interventions are always a wise economic investment. Costs and benefits are presented for six water, sanitation, and health programs-handwashing ...
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Journal ArticleWater Resources Research · December 10, 2010
This research develops a hydroeconomic modeling framework for integrating climate change impacts into the problem of planning water resources infrastructure development. It then illustrates use of that framework in evaluation of two alternative sizes of a ...
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Journal ArticleProcedia in Vaccinology · August 5, 2010
Ignoring the indirect effects of vaccination has led to two types of inaccuracies in cholera vaccine policy analysis in endemic settings. First, when herd protection is ignored, the social benefits and cost-effectiveness of vaccination programs are underes ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Development Economics · March 1, 2010
This paper reports the results of the first study that estimates households' private demand for cholera vaccines using the travel cost method. We take advantage of an unusual natural experiment. In January 2004, more than 41,000 residents from various loca ...
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Journal ArticleWater Alternatives · January 1, 2010
It has long been known that the economic assessment of large projects is sensitive to assumptions about discounting future costs and benefits. Projects that require high upfront investments and take years to begin producing economic benefits can be difficu ...
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Journal ArticleFoundations and Trends in Microeconomics · November 19, 2009
This paper argues that there are many challenges to designing and implementing water and sanitation interventions that actually deliver economic benefits to the households in developing countries. Perhaps most critical to successful water and sanitation in ...
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Journal ArticleValue in health : the journal of the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research · September 2009
ObjectivesWe evaluated the cost-effectiveness of a low-cost cholera vaccine licensed and used in Vietnam, using recently collected data from four developing countries where cholera is endemic. Our analysis incorporated new findings on vaccine herd ...
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Journal ArticleWorld Bank Economic Review · August 12, 2009
Economic and epidemiological data collected in Beira, Mozambique, are used to conduct this first social cost-benefit analysis for cholera vaccination in Sub-Saharan Africa. The analysis compares the net economic benefits of three immunization strategies wi ...
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Journal ArticleVaccine · May 2009
This paper presents the first cost-benefit comparison of improved water supply investments and cholera vaccination programs. Specifically, we compare two water supply interventions -- deep wells with public hand pumps and biosand filters (an in-house, poin ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2009
The 1980s were designated the International Water and Sanitation Decade, and the international community committed itself to ensuring that everyone in the world would have access to at least basic water and sanitation services by 1990. This target was not ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of policy analysis and management : [the journal of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management] · January 2009
Although it is well known that vaccines against many infectious diseases confer positive economic externalities via indirect protection, analysts have typically ignored possible herd protection effects in policy analyses of vaccination programs. Despite a ...
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Journal ArticleWater Resources Research · December 1, 2008
Many rural water supply interventions in developing countries have been marked by a poor record of sustainability. Considerable progress has been made over the past several decades on the development of lower-cost technologies that are easier for communiti ...
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Journal ArticleVaccine · November 2008
The burden of typhoid fever remains high in impoverished settings, and increasing antibiotic resistance is making treatment costly. One strategy for reducing the typhoid morbidity and mortality is vaccination with the Vi polysaccharide vaccine. We use a we ...
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Journal ArticleVaccine · March 2007
In the summer of 2005, we interviewed 996 randomly selected respondents in Beira, Mozambique concerning their willingness and ability to pay for cholera vaccine for themselves and for other household members. Respondents were told that two doses of the vac ...
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Journal ArticleEnvironmental and Resource Economics
Diarrheal illnesses and acute respiratory infections are among the top causes for premature death and disability across the developing world, and adoption of various technologies for avoiding these illnesses remains extremely low. We exploit data from a un ...
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