Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Appendices
- List of Contributors
- Preface
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Chapter 2 Environmental Valuation: A Review of Methods
- Chapter 3 Valuing the Environment as a Production Input
- Chapter 4 Should Shrimp Farmers Pay Paddy Farmers?: The Challenges of Examining Salinization Externalities in South India
- Chapter 5 Evaluating Gains from De-Eutrophication of the Dutch Canal in Sri Lanka
- Chapter 6 Pesticide Productivity and Vegetable Farming in Nepal
- Chapter 7 Forests, Hydrological Services, and Agricultural Income: A Case Study from the Western Ghats of India
- Chapter 8 Can Mangroves Minimize Property Loss during Big Storms?: An Analysis of House Damages due to the Super Cyclone in Orissa
- Chapter 9 Valuation of Recreational Amenities from Environmental Resources: The Case of Two National Parks in Northern Pakistan
- Chapter 10 Valuing the Land of Tigers: What Indian Visitors Reveal
- Chapter 11 Estimating Welfare Losses from Urban Air Pollution using Panel Data from Household Health Diaries
- Chapter 12 Children in the Slums of Dhaka: Diarrhoea Prevalence and its Implications
- Chapter 13 Red Wells, Green Wells and the Costs of Arsenic Contamination in Bangladesh
- Chapter 14 Air Quality and Cement Production: Examining the Implications of Point Source Pollution in Sri Lanka
- Chapter 15 Revisiting the Need for Improved Stoves: Estimating Health, Time and Carbon Benefits
- Chapter 16 Benefits from Reduced Air Pollution in Delhi and Kolkata: A Hedonic Property Price Approach
- Chapter 17 The Value of Statistical Life
- Chapter 18 An Assessment of Demand for Improved Household Water Supply in Southwest Sri Lanka
- Index
Chapter 15 - Revisiting the Need for Improved Stoves: Estimating Health, Time and Carbon Benefits
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 November 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Appendices
- List of Contributors
- Preface
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Chapter 2 Environmental Valuation: A Review of Methods
- Chapter 3 Valuing the Environment as a Production Input
- Chapter 4 Should Shrimp Farmers Pay Paddy Farmers?: The Challenges of Examining Salinization Externalities in South India
- Chapter 5 Evaluating Gains from De-Eutrophication of the Dutch Canal in Sri Lanka
- Chapter 6 Pesticide Productivity and Vegetable Farming in Nepal
- Chapter 7 Forests, Hydrological Services, and Agricultural Income: A Case Study from the Western Ghats of India
- Chapter 8 Can Mangroves Minimize Property Loss during Big Storms?: An Analysis of House Damages due to the Super Cyclone in Orissa
- Chapter 9 Valuation of Recreational Amenities from Environmental Resources: The Case of Two National Parks in Northern Pakistan
- Chapter 10 Valuing the Land of Tigers: What Indian Visitors Reveal
- Chapter 11 Estimating Welfare Losses from Urban Air Pollution using Panel Data from Household Health Diaries
- Chapter 12 Children in the Slums of Dhaka: Diarrhoea Prevalence and its Implications
- Chapter 13 Red Wells, Green Wells and the Costs of Arsenic Contamination in Bangladesh
- Chapter 14 Air Quality and Cement Production: Examining the Implications of Point Source Pollution in Sri Lanka
- Chapter 15 Revisiting the Need for Improved Stoves: Estimating Health, Time and Carbon Benefits
- Chapter 16 Benefits from Reduced Air Pollution in Delhi and Kolkata: A Hedonic Property Price Approach
- Chapter 17 The Value of Statistical Life
- Chapter 18 An Assessment of Demand for Improved Household Water Supply in Southwest Sri Lanka
- Index
Summary
Introduction
Indoor Air Pollution (IAP), especially smoke generated from burning solid biomass fuel in kitchens, is a major environmental health issue in Nepal. Some 85 per cent of Nepalese households are dependent on biomass fuels for cooking energy (CBS, 2004). Biomass fuels such as animal dung, crop residues and wood, which are considered the most polluting fuels, lie at the bottom of the energy ladder, and are used mostly by very poor people. In Nepal these fuels are typically burnt in open fires or poorly functioning stoves and more often with inadequate ventilation creating a dangerous cocktail of hundreds of pollutants to which women and young children are exposed on a daily basis. According to WHO (2007a, based on) estimates, IAP from solid fuel burning was responsible for the deaths of 7,500 people, 204,400 Disability-Adjusted Life Years (DALY) loss and 2.7 per cent of the national burden of diseases in Nepal 2002 data. According to NDHS 2006, Acute Respiratory Infection (ARI) has contributed to 23 per cent of the total deaths in the year 2006 among children below five years of age. In Nepal, Acute Lower Respiratory Infections (ALRI), Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and Tuberculosis are among the top 10 causes of death. There is strong evidence to suggest the role of IAP in the occurrence of such illnesses. Responses to such illnesses so far have focused on treatment rather than on prevention.
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- Environmental Valuation in South Asia , pp. 348 - 379Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011