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Environmental Burden of Traditional Bioenergy Use by Masera, Omar R, Bailis, Rob, Drigo, Rudi, Ghilardi, Adrian, Ruiz-Mercado, Ilse

“…Approximately 40% of the global population relies on traditional bioenergy, accounting for 9% of global energy use and 55% of global wood harvest. However,…”
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Assessing the Sustainability of Small Farmer Natural Resource Management Systems. A Critical Analysis of the MESMIS Program (1995-2010) by Astier, Marta, García-Barrios, Luis, Galván-Miyoshi, Yankuic, González-Esquivel, Carlos E., Masera, Omar R.

“…Sustainability assessment oriented to improve current systems and practices is urgently needed, particularly in the context of small farmer natural resource…”
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From Linear Fuel Switching to Multiple Cooking Strategies: A Critique and Alternative to the Energy Ladder Model by Masera, Omar R, Saatkamp, Barbara D, Kammen, Daniel M

“…Promoting sustainable development requires evaluating the technical and policy options that will facilitate the adoption and use of energy efficient and less…”
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Plant Power: Opportunities and challenges for meeting sustainable energy needs from the plant and fungal kingdoms by Grace, Olwen M., Lovett, Jon C., Gore, Charles J. N., Moat, Justin, Ondo, Ian, Pironon, Samuel, Langat, Moses K., Pérez‐Escobar, Oscar A., Ross, Andrew, Suzan Abbo, Mary, Shrestha, Krishna K., Gowda, Balakrishna, Farrar, Kerrie, Adams, Jessica, Cámara‐Leret, Rodrigo, Diazgranados, Mauricio, Ulian, Tiziana, Sagala, Saut, Rianawati, Elisabeth, Hazra, Amit, Masera, Omar R., Antonelli, Alexandre, Wilkin, Paul

“…Bioenergy is a major component of the global transition to renewable energy technologies. The plant and fungal kingdoms offer great potential but remain mostly…”
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Natural-draft flow and heat transfer in a plancha-type biomass cookstove by Núñez, José, Moctezuma-Sánchez, Miguel F., Fisher, Elizabeth M., Berrueta, Víctor M., Masera, Omar R., Beltrán, Alberto

“…The fluid flow, heat transfer, and gas-phase chemical reactions for a natural-draft plancha-type biomass cookstove are studied at steady state with a…”
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Promoting sustainable local development of rural communities and mitigating climate change: the case of Mexico’s Patsari improved cookstove project by Berrueta, Victor M., Serrano-Medrano, Montserrat, García-Bustamante, Carlos, Astier, Marta, Masera, Omar R.

“…Improved cookstoves have been identified in Mexico as a key opportunity to advance sustainable local development priorities in disadvantaged regions while…”
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Ten years of sustainability evaluation using the MESMIS framework: Lessons learned from its application in 28 Latin American case studies by Speelman, Erika N., López-Ridaura, Santiago, Colomer, Nuria Aliana, Astier, Marta, Masera, Omar R.

“…This paper focuses on sustainability evaluation and, more specifically, it describes and analyses the Indicator-based Framework for Evaluation of Natural…”
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Fugitive Emissions and Health Implications of Plancha-Type Stoves by Ruiz-García, Víctor M, Edwards, Rufus D, Ghasemian, Masoud, Berrueta, Víctor M, Princevac, Marko, Vázquez, Juan C, Johnson, Michael, Masera, Omar R

“…Plancha-type stoves have been widely disseminated in Mexico and Central America, but the contribution of fugitive emissions from these stoves to indoor air…”
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Energy performance of wood-burning cookstoves in Michoacan, Mexico by Berrueta, Víctor M., Edwards, Rufus D., Masera, Omar R.

“…There have been few detailed assessments of the actual impacts of improved stove interventions in rural communities, although many improved stove projects have…”
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Neotropical Forest Conservation, Agricultural Intensification, and Rural Out-Migration: The Mexican Experience by García-Barrios, Luis, Galván-Miyoshi, Yankuic M, Valdivieso-Pérez, Ingrid Abril, Masera, Omar R, Bocco, Gerardo, Vandermeer, John

“…Forest loss in the tropics is one of the most critical contemporary environmental problems. Understanding the complex sociopolitical and ecological forces…”
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Energy balance and greenhouse gas emissions in organic and conventional avocado orchards in Mexico by Astier, Marta, Merlín-Uribe, Yair, Villamil-Echeverri, Laura, Garciarreal, Alfredo, Gavito, Mayra E., Masera, Omar R.

“…•Total energy use, energy ratios and GHG emissions are similar in both systems.•Both systems depend heavily on fossil fuel input, machinery and…”
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Indoor particle size distributions in homes with open fires and improved Patsari cook stoves by Armendáriz-Arnez, Cynthia, Edwards, Rufus D., Johnson, Michael, Rosas, Irma A., Espinosa, F., Masera, Omar R.

“…Particulate pollution has been clearly linked with adverse health impacts from open fire cookstoves, and indoor air concentrations are frequently used as a…”
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Understanding an improved cookstove program in rural Mexico: An analysis from the implementers' perspective by Troncoso, Karin, Castillo, Alicia, Merino, Leticia, Lazos, Elena, Masera, Omar R.

“…The adoption of innovations in rural areas depends, among many different factors, on the way development workers approach a community. Through a qualitative…”
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Modeling carbon sequestration in afforestation, agroforestry and forest management projects: the CO2FIX V.2 approach by Masera, Omar R., Garza-Caligaris, J.F., Kanninen, M., Karjalainen, T., Liski, J., Nabuurs, G.J., Pussinen, A., de Jong, B.H.J., Mohren, G.M.J.

“…The paper describes the Version 2 of the CO2FIX (CO2FIX V.2) model, a user-friendly tool for dynamically estimating the carbon sequestration potential of…”
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From cookstoves to cooking systems: the integrated program on sustainable household energy use in Mexico by Masera, Omar R., Díaz, Rodolfo, Berrueta, Víctor

“…Interest in household energy use and improved cookstoves is growing again, prompted this time by a breadth of concerns that range from local environmental,…”
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Is modernization making villages more energy efficient? A long-term comparative end-use analysis for Cheranatzicurin village, Mexico by Martínez-Negrete, Marco, Martínez, René, Joaquín, Roselio, Sheinbaum, Claudia, Masera, Omar R.

“…A detailed analysis of the change in the patterns of energy use in a Mexican village, from the year 1986 to 2012 is presented. The satisfaction of energy needs…”
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Sustainability indicators, alternative strategies and trade-offs in peasant agroecosystems: analysing 15 case studies from Latin America by Astier, Marta, Speelman, Erika N, López-Ridaura, Santiago, Masera, Omar R, Gonzalez-Esquivel, Carlos E

“…In view of the urgent need to improve agroecosystem sustainability, several efforts have been made to evaluate the effect of alternative strategies on key…”
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Energy and health transitions in development: fuel use, stove technology, and morbidity in Jarácuaro, México by Saatkamp, Barbara D., Masera, Omar R., Kammen, Daniel M.

“…The “energy ladder” relating improvements in socioeconomic status with transitions to more sophisticated stoves and to higher quality, less polluting fuels is…”
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Cradle to Grave Life Cycle Assessment of Mexican Forest Pellets for Residential Heating by Musule, Ricardo, Núñez, José, Bonales-Revuelta, Joel, García-Bustamante, Carlos. A., Vázquez-Tinoco, Juan C., Masera-Cerutti, Omar R., Ruiz-García, Víctor M.

“…This study applies environmental life cycle assessment to quantify and compare the environmental profile of the production and use of wood pellets for…”
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Assessment and Measurement Issues Related to Soil Carbon Sequestration in Land-Use, Land-Use Change, and Forestry (LULUCF) Projects under the Kyoto Protocol by García-Oliva, Felipe, Masera, Omar R.

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