Interventions to mitigate indoor air pollution: A cost-benefit analysis
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چکیده
Globally, around three billion people depend upon solid fuels such as firewood, dry animal dung, crop residues, or coal, and use traditional stoves for cooking heating purposes. This fuel combustion causes indoor air pollution (IAP) severely impairs health the environment, especially in developing countries like Pakistan. A number of alternative household energy strategies can be adopted to mitigate IAP, using liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), natural gas, biogas, electric stoves, improved cook (ICS). In this study, we estimate benefit-cost ratios net present value these interventions over a ten-year period Annual costs include both fixed operating costs, whereas benefits cover health, productivity gains, time savings, savings. We find that LPG has highest ratio, followed by while ICS lowest ratio. Electric biogas have moderate nevertheless exceed one. To maximize return on cleaner burning technology, government Pakistan should consider encouraging adoption LPG, piped means reduce IAP adopt clean technologies.
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عنوان ژورنال: PLOS ONE
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['1932-6203']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0257543