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Culture, tradition, and taboo: understanding the social shaping of fuel choices and cooking practices in Nigeria (2017)
Journal Article
Akintan, O., Jewitt, S., & Clifford, M. (2018). Culture, tradition, and taboo: understanding the social shaping of fuel choices and cooking practices in Nigeria. Energy Research and Social Science, 40, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2017.11.019

Wood fuel remains the most widely used domestic fuel amongst resource poor groups in many low-income countries, despite the environmental and health problems associated with exposure to wood smoke. Studies on household air pollution concentrate predo... Read More about Culture, tradition, and taboo: understanding the social shaping of fuel choices and cooking practices in Nigeria.

From barriers to enablers: where next for Improved cookstoves? (2017)
Journal Article
Ray, C., Sesan, T., Clifford, M., & Jewitt, S. (2017). From barriers to enablers: where next for Improved cookstoves?. Boiling Point, 2-5

The 'Barriers to the introduction and uptake of improved cookstoves (ICS) in East and Southern Africa' is a three year research project funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), Department for International Development... Read More about From barriers to enablers: where next for Improved cookstoves?.

What's for dinner? Gendered decision-making and energy efficient cookstoves in Benue State, North Central Nigeria (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Atagher, P., Clifford, M., Jewitt, S., & Ray, C. (2017, September). What's for dinner? Gendered decision-making and energy efficient cookstoves in Benue State, North Central Nigeria. Presented at 7th International Conference on Energy and Sustainability, Seville, Spain

Solid biomass collection such as firewood rests mostly on women and children in settings where traditional fuels dominates household energy choices. A 2015 World Health Organisation (WHO) report estimated that 3.5 million people globally rely on soli... Read More about What's for dinner? Gendered decision-making and energy efficient cookstoves in Benue State, North Central Nigeria.

Energy poverty, institutional reform and challenges of sustainable development: the case of India (2017)
Journal Article
Jewitt, S., & Raman, S. (2017). Energy poverty, institutional reform and challenges of sustainable development: the case of India. Progress in Development Studies, 17(2), https://doi.org/10.1177/1464993416688837

This paper assesses recent efforts by the Indian Government to tackle energy poverty and sustainable development. It focuses on the new integrated energy policy, and initiatives to disseminate improved cookstoves and develop energy alternatives for t... Read More about Energy poverty, institutional reform and challenges of sustainable development: the case of India.

Gendered priorities for ‘improved’ sanitation: insights from Kisumu Kenya (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Jewitt, S., & Ryley, H. Gendered priorities for ‘improved’ sanitation: insights from Kisumu Kenya. Presented at 38th WEDC International Conference

This paper explores how official concepts of ‘improved’ sanitation often fail to reflect the priorities of female users. As the health benefits associated with improved sanitation cannot be fully realised until all potential user groups habitually ut... Read More about Gendered priorities for ‘improved’ sanitation: insights from Kisumu Kenya.

Indonesia's contested domains: deforestation, rehabilitation and conservation-with-development in Central Kalimantan's tropical peatlands (2014)
Journal Article
Jewitt, S., Nasir, D., Page, S., Rieley, J., & Khanal, K. (2014). Indonesia's contested domains: deforestation, rehabilitation and conservation-with-development in Central Kalimantan's tropical peatlands. International Forestry Review, 16(4), https://doi.org/10.1505/146554814813484086

Tropical peat swamp forests (TPSF) in Indonesia have long faced competition between industrial demand for timber, the subsistence require- ments of local communities and, more recently, global concern about the need to conserve tropical peat carbon s... Read More about Indonesia's contested domains: deforestation, rehabilitation and conservation-with-development in Central Kalimantan's tropical peatlands.

It’s a girl thing: menstruation, school attendance, spatial mobility and wider gender inequalities in Kenya (2014)
Journal Article
Jewitt, S., & Ryley, H. (2014). It’s a girl thing: menstruation, school attendance, spatial mobility and wider gender inequalities in Kenya. Geoforum, 56, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2014.07.006

Recent attention has been drawn to possible linkages between poor sanitation in sub-Saharan African schools and low attendance rates amongst post-pubescent girls. In particular, questions have been raised about the influence of menstruation and acces... Read More about It’s a girl thing: menstruation, school attendance, spatial mobility and wider gender inequalities in Kenya.

Risk, wealth and agrarian change in India: household-level hazards vs. late-modern global risks at different points along the risk transition (2012)
Journal Article
Jewitt, S., & Baker, K. (2012). Risk, wealth and agrarian change in India: household-level hazards vs. late-modern global risks at different points along the risk transition. Global Environmental Change, 22(2), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2011.11.010

The global poor often prioritise immediate hazards of food insecurity over temporally more distant risks like global warming. Yet the influence of socio-economic factors, temporal and spatial distance on risk perception remains under-researched. Data... Read More about Risk, wealth and agrarian change in India: household-level hazards vs. late-modern global risks at different points along the risk transition.

Poo gurus? Researching the threats and opportunities presented by human waste (2011)
Journal Article
Jewitt, S. (2011). Poo gurus? Researching the threats and opportunities presented by human waste. Applied Geography, 31(2), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeog.2010.08.003

There is huge geographical variation in the extent to which excrement represents a threat to human and environmental health. In the UK, we tend to think little of such risks. By contrast, 52% of all people in Asia have no access to basic sanitation a... Read More about Poo gurus? Researching the threats and opportunities presented by human waste.