All Outputs (37)

Market mapping for improved cookstoves: barriers and opportunities in East Africa (2019)
Journal Article
Stevens, L., Santangelo, E., Muzee, K., Clifford, M., & Jewitt, S. (2020). Market mapping for improved cookstoves: barriers and opportunities in East Africa. Development in Practice, 30(1), 37-51. https://doi.org/10.1080/09614524.2019.1658717

The East African region has been a hub for the development and marketing of improved cookstoves from the 1980s. However, there are differences in the rates of uptake of stoves between Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. To investigate, we use a participatory... Read More about Market mapping for improved cookstoves: barriers and opportunities in East Africa.

“We Learnt that Being Together Would Give us a Voice”: Gender Perspectives on the East African Improved-Cookstove Value Chain (2019)
Journal Article
Sesan, T., Clifford, M., Jewitt, S., & Ray, C. (2019). “We Learnt that Being Together Would Give us a Voice”: Gender Perspectives on the East African Improved-Cookstove Value Chain. Feminist Economics, 25(4), 240-266. https://doi.org/10.1080/13545701.2019.1657924

© 2019, © 2019 IAFFE. Improved cookstoves (ICS) have been promoted for several decades, with little success. Advocates looking to drive uptake encourage greater involvement of women in ICS enterprises, on the largely unproven premise that women’s par... Read More about “We Learnt that Being Together Would Give us a Voice”: Gender Perspectives on the East African Improved-Cookstove Value Chain.

Assessment of Fluoride Concentrations in Drinking Water Sources in the Jirapa and Kassena-Nankana Municipalities of Ghana (2019)
Journal Article
Dongzagla, A., Jewitt, S., & O'Hara, S. (2019). Assessment of Fluoride Concentrations in Drinking Water Sources in the Jirapa and Kassena-Nankana Municipalities of Ghana. Groundwater for Sustainable Development, 9, Article 100272

Fluoride is an important chemical for human health. However, its deficiency or excess in the human body poses health problems. In Ghana, the geological formation in the Upper Regions exposes groundwater, the main source of drinking water to risk of e... Read More about Assessment of Fluoride Concentrations in Drinking Water Sources in the Jirapa and Kassena-Nankana Municipalities of Ghana.

Experiences with improved cookstoves in Southern Africa (2018)
Journal Article
Pailman, W., De Groot, J., Clifford, M., Jewitt, S., & Ray, C. (2018). Experiences with improved cookstoves in Southern Africa. Journal of Energy in Southern Africa, 29(4), 13-26. https://doi.org/10.17159/2413-3051/2018/v29i4a5072

This study explores user experiences with improved cookstoves, drawing on findings from household surveys conducted in South Africa, Mozambique, Malawi and Zambia. Investigations were conducted on fuel and stove preferences; experiences with improved... Read More about Experiences with improved cookstoves in Southern Africa.

Toilet training: what can the cookstove sector learn from improved sanitation promotion? (2018)
Journal Article
Sesan, T., Jewitt, S., Clifford, M., & Ray, C. (2018). Toilet training: what can the cookstove sector learn from improved sanitation promotion?. International Journal of Environmental Health Research, 28(6), 667-682. https://doi.org/10.1080/09603123.2018.1503235

Within the domain of public health, commonalities exist between the sanitation and cookstove sectors. Despite these commonalities and the grounds established for cross-learning between both sectors, however, there has not been much evidence of knowle... Read More about Toilet training: what can the cookstove sector learn from improved sanitation promotion?.

Sanitation sustainability, seasonality and stacking: improved facilities for how long, where and whom? (2018)
Journal Article
Jewitt, S., Mahanta, A., & Gaur, K. (2018). Sanitation sustainability, seasonality and stacking: improved facilities for how long, where and whom?. Geographical Journal, 184(3), 255-268. https://doi.org/10.1111/geoj.12258

Despite high-profile efforts to ‘reinvent the toilet’ (Gates Foundation, 2014) and ‘end open defecation’ (UNICEF, 2016a), WHO/UNICEF, (2017) estimated that in 2015, 2.3 billion lacked access to improved sanitation and 892 million practised open defec... Read More about Sanitation sustainability, seasonality and stacking: improved facilities for how long, where and whom?.

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

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). What's for dinner? Gendered decision-making and energy efficient cookstoves in Benue State, North Central Nigeria. In C. Brebbia, & J. Sendra (Eds.), WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment, volume 224, (101-111). https://doi.org/10.2495/ESUS170101

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.

Green Revolution Farming: Unanticipated Consequences (2015)
Book Chapter
Jewitt, S. (2015). Green Revolution Farming: Unanticipated Consequences. In K. Albala (Ed.), The SAGE Encyclopaedia of Food Issues. SAGE Publications, Inc. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781483346304.n222

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

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.

Geographies of shit: spatial and temporal variations in attitudes towards human waste (2011)
Journal Article
Jewitt, S. (2011). Geographies of shit: spatial and temporal variations in attitudes towards human waste. Progress in Human Geography, 35(5), https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132510394704

Taboos surrounding human waste have resulted in a lack of attention to spatial inequalities in access to sanitation and the consequences of this for human, environmental and economic health. This paper explores spaces where urgent environmental healt... Read More about Geographies of shit: spatial and temporal variations in attitudes towards human waste.