The revolution from the kitchen: Social processes of the removal of traditional cookstoves in Himachal Pradesh, India

Drivers and Barriers to Clean Cooking: A Systematic Literature Review from a Consumer Behavior Perspective

“…Since energy poverty and limited clean cooking is largely a concern of developing and emerging countries [28], income seems to have a major role in consumer behavior. There is general agreement that household income represents a driver for the adoption of ICS [10,15,[28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39]. Higher-income households adopt sustainable cooking systems more frequently than do lower-income households.…”

“…Sometimes, lack of knowledge about the availability of alternate technologies, rather than lack of availability of ICS for purchasing in a certain area, represents a barrier to ICS adoption [9,75]. Regardless of the availability of new cooking technologies, several studies on ICS have focused on technology adoption, showing that consumers' attitudes toward new technologies and innovation in general may affect their decision to purchase ICS [39,76]. Specifically, consumers' resistance toward new technology is associated with a lower intention to adopt new cooking systems.…”

“…Similarly, Goswami et al (2017) report that trust in a new technology increases the probability of switching to ICS [77]. A positive attitude toward technology is usually associated with higher social class; for example, an interesting study conducted in India found that lower social classes are more likely to reject traditional technology than elites [39].…”

“…Cooking practices and taste/dietary preference related to the local culture are involved in decision making about ICS adoption [4,32,77,88]. In particular, some studies have found that attachment to the particular taste of food cooked on traditional stoves may act as a barrier to the adoption of LPG stoves [12,39,61,81], highlighting that it is not possible to prepare certain traditional dishes with ICS [88]. For example, Goswami et al (2017) explain that the preference for a traditionally cooked chapatti (a type of unleavened flatbread) creates a bias against the use of ICS [77].…”

Energy access transitions in South Asia: a study of positive deviance and the enabling mechanisms for social change at the community level

“…Traditional cooking practices in developing countries, performed through daily and weekly routines involving the collection of fuelwood and use of traditional stoves, would appear deeply embedded within social norms and a difficult practice to transform. For example, several studies based in India have found that many people have no means, or choose not to abandon the traditional means of cooking (Bhojvaid et al, 2014a, Wang and Bailis, 2015, Cheng and Urpelainen, 2014, despite the recognised, potential benefits for making such a transition (Shankar et al, 2014). As the studies show, this choice may be influenced in part by any number of possible drivers that are context and situationally specific (Rhodes et al, 2014).…”