Kirk R. Smith, MPH, PhD

Publications For Downloading

  1. Air Pollution in Developing Countries: Health Effects
  2. Air Pollution in Developing Countries: Climate Implications
  3. Air Pollution in Developing Countries: Measurements (See also Sections 4 and 5)
  4. Air Pollution in Developing Countries: New Monitoring Technologies
  5. Improved Cooking Stoves for Developing Countries
  6. Energy, Environment, and Climate Change Policy
  7. Environmental Health Policy, including Exposure Effectiveness (Intake Fraction), Exposure Trading and Risk Transition
  8. Exposure Effectiveness (now called Intake Fraction): Full list
  9. Health and Climate Co-Benefits from Air Pollution Control: Full list
  10. Publications since 1990: Full list

(For background materials, see http://www.whrc.org/policy/hewlett2006.htm)
1. Air Pollution in Developing Countries: Health Effects
Smith-Sivertsen T, Diaz E, Pope D, Lie RT, Diaz A, McCracken JP, Bakke P, Arana B, Smith KR, Bruce N (2009) Effect of reducing indoor air pollution on women's respiratory symptoms and lung function: The RESPIRE randomized trial, Guatemala .Am J Epidemiology 170(2): 211-220, 2009.
Environmental Risks of Respiratory Disease: Recommendations and Abstracts, Report of the Sept 2008 Workshop of the Indian Council of Medical Research, NIEHS, and CDC Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research Chandigarh, March 2009
Dherani M, Pope D, Mascarenhas M, Smith KR, Weber M, Bruce N, (2008) Indoor air pollution from unprocessed solid fuel use and pneumonia risk in children aged under 5 years: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Bull WHO86(5): 390-398 + supplementary material, 2008.
Gan Q, Smith KR, Hammond KS, Hu TW, (2008) Disease Burden from Smoking and Passive Smoking in China, in Tobacco Control Policy Analysis in China: Economics and Health. World Scientific Press, Shanghai pp 83-104, 2008.
Díaz E, Bruce N, Pope D, Lie RT, Díaz A, Smith KR, Smith-Sivertsen, T (2008) Self-rated health among Mayan women participating in a randomized intervention trial reducing indoor air pollution in Guatemala. BMC International Health and Human Rights 8-7(web published Jun 5, 2008).
Díaz E, Bruce N, Pope D, Lie RT, Díaz A, Arana B, Smith KR, Smith-Sivertsen T (2007) Lung function and symptoms among indigenous Mayan women exposed to high levels of indoor air pollution. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis 11(12):1372–1379.
Bruce N,Weber M, Arana B, Diaz A, Jenny A, Thompson L, McCracken J, Dherani M, Juarez D, Ordonez S, Klein R & Smith KR (2007) Pneumonia case-finding in the RESPIRE Guatemala indoor air pollution trial: standardizing methods for resource-poor settings. Bulletin of the World Health Organization 85:535–544.
Zhang J and Smith KR (2007) Household Air Pollution from Coal and Biomass Fuels in China: Measurements, Health Impacts, and Interventions. Environ Health Perspect 115:848–855.
McCracken JP, Smith KR, Díaz A, Mittleman MA, Schwartz J (2007) Chimney Stove Intervention to Reduce Longterm Woodsmoke Exposure Lowers Blood Pressure among Guatemalan Women. Environ Health Perspect. 115:996–1001.
Bates MN, Khalakdina A, Pai M, Chang L, Lessa F, Smith KR (2007) Risk of Tuberculosis From Exposure to Tobacco Smoke A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. Arch Intern Med. 167:335-342.
Díaz E, Smith-Sivertsen T, Pope D, Lie RT, Díaz, McCracken J, Arana B, Smith KR and Bruce N (2007) Eye discomfort, headache and back pain among Mayan Guatemalan women taking part in a randomised stove intervention trial. J. Epidemiol. Community Health 61; 74-79.
Naeher LP, Brauer M, Lipsett M, Zelikoff JT, Simpson CD, Koenig, JQ, Smith KR (2007) Woodsmoke Health Effects: A Review. Inhalation Toxicology 19:67–106.
Straif K, Baan R, Grosse Y, Secretan B, El Ghissassi F, Cogliano V, on behalf of the WHO IARC Monograph Working Group (2006) Carcinogenicity of household solid fuel combustion and of high-temperature frying. Lancet Oncology Vol 7.
Smith KR (2006) Health impacts of household fuelwood use in developing countries. Unasylva 224, Vol. 57.

The Board of the International Academy of Indoor Air Sciences (2006) Deadly Household Pollution: A Call to Action. Indoor Air 16: 2–3.

Mishra V, Smith KR, Retherford RD (2005) Effects of cooking smoke and environmental tobacco smoke on acute respiratory infections in young Indian children. Population and Environment 26(5): 375-396.
Mishra V, Retherford RD, Smith KR (2005) Cooking smoke and tobacco smoke as risk factors for stillbirth. International Journal of Environmental Health Research 15(6):397–410.
Cohen AJ, Anderson HR, Ostra B, Dev Pandey K, Krzyzanowski M, Künzli N, Gutschmidt K, Pope A, Romieu I, Samet JM, Smith KR (2005) The Global Burden of Disease Due to Outdoor Air Pollution.; Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health, Part A, 68:1–7.
Peabody JW, Riddell TJ, Smith KR, Liu Y, et al. (2005) Indoor Air Pollution in Rural China: Cooking Fuels, Stoves, and Health Status.; Archives of Environmental & Occupational Health, 60(2):86-95.
Pokhrel AK, Smith KR, Khalakdina A, Deuja A, Bates MN (2005) Case–control study of indoor cooking smoke exposure and cataract in Nepal and India.Int J Epidemiol 34:702–708.
Naeher LP, Smith KR Brauer M, Chowdhury Z, Simpson C, Koenig JQ, Lipsett M, Zelikoff JT (2005) Review of the Health Effects of Woodsmoke.
Report submitted to the Air Health Effects Division, Health Canada
Smith KR, Mehta S, Maeusezahl-Feuz M (2004) Indoor smoke from household solid fuels.
In Ezzati M, Rodgers AD, Lopez AD, Murray CJL (eds) Comparative Quantification of Health Risks: Global and Regional Burden of Disease due to Selected Major Risk Factors, Geneva: World Health Organization, Vol 2: pp. 1435-1493.
Cohen AJ, Anderson HR, Ostro B, Pandey KD, Krzyzanowski M, Kuenzli N, Gutschmidt K, Pope CA, Romieu I, Samet JM, Smith KR (2004) Mortality Impacts of Urban Air Pollution. ibid. pp.1353-1433.
Smith-Sivertsen T, Díaz E, Bruce N, Díaz A, Khalakdina A, Schei MA, McCracken J, Arana B, Klein R, Thompson L and Smith KR (2004) Reducing indoor air pollution with a randomised intervention design – A presentation of the Stove Intervention Study in the Guatemalan Highlands. Nor Epid 14 (2):137-143.
Mishra V, Dai X, Smith KR, Mika L (2004) Maternal exposure to biomass smoke and reduced birthweight in Zimbabwe. Annals of Epidemiology 14:740–747.
Schei M, Hessen JO, Smith KR, Bruce N, McCracken J, Lopez V (2004) Childhood asthma and indoor woodsmoke from cooking in Guatemala. J Expo Assess & Environ Epi 14(S-1):110-117.
International Scintific Oversight Committee (KR Smith and others)(April 2004) Health Effects of Outdoor Air Pollution in Developing Countries of Asia: A Literature Review. Special Report #15, Health Effects Institute, Boston.
Desai MA, Mehta S, Smith KR (2004) Indoor smoke from solid fuels: Assessing the burden of disease at national and local levels. Environmental Burden of Disease Series #4, Protection of the Human Environment, World Health Organization, Geneva
Smith KR (2003) Indoor air pollution and acute respiratory infections. Indian Pediatrics 40(9):815-819.
Zhang J and Smith KR (2003) Indoor air pollution: a global health concern. British Medical Bulletin 68: 209–225.
Smith KR and Mehta S (2003) The burden of disease from indoor air pollution in developing countries: comparison of estimates. Int J Hyg Environ Health 206(4-5):279-289.
Ezzati M, Lopez AD, Rodgers A, Vander Hoorn S, Murray CJL, and the Comparative Risk Assessment Collaborating Group* (2002) Selected major risk factors and global and regional burden of disease. Lancet 360: 1347–60.
Romieu I, Samet JM, Smith KR, Bruce N (2002) Outdoor air pollution and acute respiratory infections among children in developing countries. J Occup Environ Med 44(7):640-649.
Smith KR (2002) Indoor air pollution in developing countries: recommendations for research. Indoor Air 12(3):198-207. See also associated editorial by KR Smith and J Sundell, p. 145-146.
Avakian MD, Dellinger B, Fiedler H, Gullet B, Koshland C, Marklund S, Oberdorster G, Safe S, Sarofim A, Smith KR, Schwartz D, Suk WA (2002) The origin, fate, and health effects of combustion by-products: a research framework. Environ Health Perspect 110(11):1155-62.
Riojas-Rodriguez H, Romano-Riquer P, Santos-Burgoa C, Smith KR (2001) Household Firewood Use and the Health of Children and Women of Indian Communities in Chiapas, Mexico. Int J Occup Environ Health 7:44-53.
Smith KR, Samet JM, Romieu I, Bruce N (2000) Indoor air pollution in developing countries and acute lower respiratory infections in children. Thorax 55(6):518-532.
Smith KR (2000) National burden of disease in India from indoor air pollution. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 97(24):13286-93.
Mishra VK, Retherford RD, Smith KR (1999) Biomass Cooking Fuels and Prevalence of Blindness in India. J. Environ. Med 1: 189–199
Mishra VK, Retherford RD, Smith KR (1999) Biomass Cooking Fuels and Tuberculosis in India. Int J Infect Dis 3:119-129
Smith KR (1999) Indoor air pollution. Pollution Management in Focus, World Bank 8(4).
Smith, KR and Youcheng Liu (1994) Indoor Air Pollution in Developing Countries. Chap. 7 of J. Samet, ed., The Epidemiology of Lung Cancer,
Marcel Dekker, NYC, 151-184.
2. Air pollution in developing countries: Climate implications
Kirk R. Smith and Evan Haigler (2008) Co-Benefits of Climate Mitigation and Health Protection in Energy Systems: Scoping Methods. Annu. Rev. Public Health 29:11–25.
Kirk R. Smith (2008) Symposium on Climate Change and Health: Mitigating, Adapting, and Suffering: How Much of Each? Annu. Rev. Public Health Vol. 29.
Edwards RD, Smith KR, Zhang J, Ma Y (2004) Implications of changes in household stoves and fuel use in China. Energy Policy 32(3):395-411.
Edwards RD, Smith KR, Zhang J, Ma Y (2003) Models to predict emissions of health-damaging pollutants and global warming contributions of residential fuel/stove combinations in China. Chemosphere 50(2):201-15.
Smith KR, Zhang J, Uma R, Kishore VVN, Joshi V, Khalil MAK (2000) Greenhouse implications of household fuels: An analysis for India. Annu Review Energy Environ 25:741-63.
Wang X and Smith KR (1999) Secondary benefits of greenhouse gas control: health impacts in China. Environ Sci Technology 33(18):3056-61.
Wang X and Smith KR (1999) Near-term Health Benefits of Greenhouse Gas Reductions: A Proposed Assessment Method and Application to Two Energy Sectors of China. World Health Organization, Geneva WHO/SDE/PHE/99-01.
Smith KR (1994) Health, energy, and greenhouse-gas impacts of biomass combustion in household stoves. Energy for Sustainable Development 1(4):23-29.
Smith KR, Khalil MAK, Rasmussen RA, Thorneloe SA, Manegdeg F, Apte M (1993) Greenhouse gases from biomass and fossil fuel stoves in developing countries: A Manila pilot study. Chemosphere 26(1-4): 479-505.
3. Air pollution in developing countries: Measurements (See also Sections 4 and 5)
Balakrishnan K, Mehta S, Kumar P, Ramaswamy P, Sambandam S, Kumar KS, Smith KR (2004) Indoor Air Pollution Associated with Household Fuel Use in India: An exposure assessment and modeling exercise in rural districts of Andhra Pradesh, India. Energy Sector Management Assistance Programme (ESMAP), World Bank, Washington DC.
Balakrishnan K, Sambandam S, Ramaswamy P, Mehta S, Smith KR (2004) Exposure assessment for respirable particulates associated with household fuel use in rural districts of Andhra Pradesh, India. J Expo Assess & Environ Epi 14(S-1):14-25.
Bruce N, McCracken J, Albalak R, Schei MA, Smith KR, Lopez V, West C (2004) Impact of improved stoves, house construction, and child location on levels of indoor air pollution exposure in young Guatemalan children. J Expo Assess & Environ Epi 14(S-1):26-33.
Tsai SM, Zhang J, Smith KR, Ma Y, Rasmussen RA, Khalil MAK (2003) Characterization of Non-methane Hydrocarbons Emitted from Various Cookstoves Used in China. Environ. Sci. Technol37:2869-2877.
Smith KR and M Jantunen (2002) Why particles? Chemosphere 49(9):867-71.
Albalak R, Bruce N, McCracken JP, Smith KR, de Gallardo T (2001) Indoor respirable particulate matter concentrations from an open fire, improved cookstove, and LPG/open fire combination in a rural Guatemalan community. Environ Sci Technol 35(13):2650-5.
Naeher LP, Smith KR, Leaderer BP, Neufeld L, Mage D (2001) Carbon monoxide as a tracer for assessing exposures to particulate matter in wood and gas cookstove households of highland Guatemala. Environ Sci Technol 35(3):575-81.
Pennise DM, Smith KR, Kithinji JP, Rezende ME, Raad TJ, Zhang J, Fan C (2001) Emissions of greenhouse gases and other airborne pollutants from charcoal making in Kenya and Brazil. J Geophysical Research-Atmosphere 106:24143-55.
Naeher LP, Leaderer BP, Smith KR (2000) Particulate Matter and CarbonMonoxide in HighlandGuatemala: Indoor and Outdoor Levels from Traditional and ImprovedWood Stoves andGas Stoves. Indoor Air 10: 200–205.
Naeher LP, Smith KR, Leaderer BP, Mage D, Grajeda R (2000) Indoor and outdoor PM2.5 and CO in high- and low-density Guatemalan villages. J Expo Anal Environ Epidemiol 10(6 Pt 1):544-551.
Smith KR, Uma R, Kishore VVN, Lata K, Joshi V, Zhang J, Rasmussen RA, Khalil MAK (2000) Greenhouse Gases from Small-scale Combustion Devices in Developing Countries, Phase IIa: Household Stoves in India. EPA-600/R-00-052, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, Washington, DC.
Tsai FC, Smith KR, Vichit-Vadakan N, Ostro BD, Chestnut LG, Kungskulniti N (2000) Indoor/outdoor PM10 and PM2.5 in Bangkok, Thailand. J Expo Anal Environ Epidemiol 10(1):15-26.
Zhang J, Smith KR, Ma Y, Ye S, Weng X, Jiang F, Qi W, Khalil MAK, Rasmussen RA, Thorneloe SA (2000) Greenhouse gases and other pollutants from household stoves in China: A database for emission factors. Atmospheric Environ 34(26):4537-49.
Smith KR, Pennise DM, Khummongkol P, Chaiwong V, Ritgeen K, Zhang J, Panyathanya W, Rasmussen RA, Khalil MAK, Thorneloe SA (1999) Greenhouse Gases from Small-scale Combustion Devices in Developing Countries. Phase III: Charcoal-Making Kilns in Thailand. EPA-600/R-99-109, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, Washington, DC.
Zhang J and Smith KR (1999) Emissions of carbonyl compounds from various cookstoves in China. Environ Sci Technol 33(14):2311-20.
Zhang J, Smith KR, Uma R, Ma Y, Kishore VVN, Lata K, Khalil MAK, Rasmussen RA, Thorneloe SA (1999) Carbon monoxide from cookstoves in developing countries: 1. Emission factors. Chemosphere 1(1-3):353-366.
Zhang J, Smith KR, Uma R, Ma Y, Kishore VVN, Lata K, Khalil MAK, Rasmussen RA, Thorneloe SA (1999) Carbon monoxide from cookstoves in developing countries: 2. Potential chronic exposures. Chemosphere 1(1-3):367-375.
McCracken JP and Smith KR (1998) Emissions and efficiency of improved woodburning cookstoves in highland Guatemala. Environment International 24(7):739-747.
Schare S and Smith KR (1995) Particulate emission rates of simple kerosene lamps. Energy for Sustainable Development Vol II No. 2:33-35.
Smith KR and Aggarwal AL (1983) Air Pollution and Rural Biomass Fuels in Developing Countires: A Pilot Village Study in India and Implications for Research and Policy. Afmospheric Environment 17(11): 2343-2362.
4. Air pollution in developing countries: New monitoring technologies
Piccolo-Allen G, Rogers JV, Edwards R, Clark MC, Allen T, Mercado-Ruiz I, Naumoff Shields K, Canuz E, Smith KR
(2009) An Ultrasound Personal Locator for Time-Activity Assessment. Internl J Occup and Environ Health 15 (2): 122-132.
Ruiz-Mercado I, Lam NL, Canuz E, Davila G, Smith KR
(2008) Low-cost temperature loggers as stove use monitors (SUMs). Boiling Point 55:16-19.
Chowdhury Z, Edwards R, Johnson M, Naumoff Shields K, Allen T, Canuz E, Smith KR
(2007) An inexpensive light-scattering particle monitor: field validation. J Environ Monit 9:(10), 1099-1106.
Edwards R, Smith KR, Kirby B, Allen T, Litton CD, Hering S
(2006) An Inexpensive Dual-chamber Particle Monitor: Laboratory Characterization. Journal of the Air and Waste Management Association 56:789-799.
Litton CD, Smith KR, Edwards R, Allen T (2004) Combined optical and ionization measurement techniques for inexpensive characteristics of micrometer and submicrometer aerosols. Aerosol Science and Technology 38:1054–1062.
5. Improved cooking stoves for developing countries
McCracken JP,Schwartz J,Bruce N, Mittleman M, Ryan LM, Smith KR (2009) Combining individual- and group-level exposure information: Child carbon monoxide in the Guatemala woodstove randomized control trial (RESPIRE) Epidemiology
20 (1): 127-136, 2009.
Granderson J, Sandhu JS, Vasquez D, Ramirez E, Smith KR (2009) Fuel use and design analysis of improved woodburning cookstoves in the Guatemalan Highlands Biomass and Bioenergy
33: 306-315, 2009.
Smith KR (2007) You don’t get what you expect, you get what you inspect. Energy for Sustainable Development
11(2):3-4.
Smith KR, Dutta K, Chengappa C, Gusain PPS, Masera O, Berrueta V, Edwards R, Bailis R, Naumoff Shields K (2007) Monitoring and evaluation of improved biomass cookstove programs for indoor air quality and stove performance: conclusions from the Household Energy and Health Project. Energy for Sustainable Development
;11(2):5-18.
Dutta K, Naumoff Shields K, Edwards R, Smith KR (2007) Impact of improved biomass cookstoves on indoor air quality near Pune, India. Energy for Sustainable Development11(2):19-32.
Chengappa C, Edwards R, Bajpai R, Naumoff Shields K, Smith KR (2007) Impact of improved cookstoves on indoor air quality in the Bundelkhand region in India. Energy for Sustainable Development;11(2):33-44.
Masera O, Edwards R, Armendáriz Arnez C, Berrueta V, Johnson M, Rojas Bracho L, Riojas-Rodríguez H, Smith KR (2007) Impact of Patsari improved cookstoves on indoor air quality in Michoacán, Mexico. Energy for Sustainable Development;11(2):45-56.
Bailis R, Berrueta V, Chengappa C, Dutta K, Masera O, Still D, Smith KR (2007) Performance testing for monitoring improved biomass stove interventions: experiences of the Household Energy and Health Project Energy for Sustainable Development;11(2):57-70
Edwards R, Hubbard A, Khalakdina A, Pennise D, Smith KR (2007) ?Design considerations for field studies of changes in indoor air pollution due to improved stoves. Energy for Sustainable Development;11(2):71-81.
Edwards RD, Liu Y, He G, Yin Z, Sinton J, Peabody J, Smith KR(2007) Household CO and PM measured as part of a review of China’s National Improved Stove Program. Indoor Air;17: 189–203.
Household Energy and Health Project (2006) Monitoring and Evaluation of Improved Cookstove Programs for Indoor Air Quality and Stove Performance. Indoor Air Pollution Group, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley,pp.41.
Mehta S, Gore F, Pruss-Ustun A, Rehfuess E, Smith KR (2006) Modeling household fuel use toward reporting of the Millennium Development Goal indicator. Energy for Sustainable Development
10(3):36-45.
Smith KR, Rogers J, Cowlin SC (2005) Household Fuels and Ill-Health in Developing Countries: What improvements can be brought by LP Gas? World LP Gas Association and Intermediate Technology Development Group (Practical Action), Paris. 59 pp.
Cowlin SC, Kaufmann RB, Edwards R, Smith KR (2005) Impact of Improved Stoves on Indoor Air Quality in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Energy Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP), World Bank, Washington DC.
Sinton JE, Smith KR, Peabody JW, Yaping L, Xiliang Z, Edwards R, Quan G (2004) An assessment of programs to promote improved househld stoves in China. Energy for Sustainable Development 8(3):33-52.
Boy E, Bruce N, Smith KR, Hernandez R (2000) Fuel efficiency of an improved wood-burning stove in rural Guatemala: implications for health, environment, and development. Energy for Sustainable Development 4(2):23-31.
Barnes D, Openshaw K, Smith KR, van der Plas R (1994) What Makes People Cook With Improved Biomass Stoves? A Comparative International Review of Stove Programs. World Bank technical paper; no. 242. Energy series.
Smith KR, Shuhua G, Huang K, Daxiong Q (1993) One hundred million improved cookstoves in China: How was it done? World Development 21(6):941-61.
Selected Publications Dealing with Improved Cookstoves Before 1997
6. Energy, Environment, and Climate Change Policy
Smith KR(2009) Methane controls before risky geoengineering, please,. Commonwealth Health Ministers’ Update 2009 New Scientist, 27 June, #2714, pp 24-25, 2009
Smith KR,Balakrishnan K
(2009) Mitigating Climate, Meeting MDGs, and Moderating Chronic Disease: The Health Co-benefits Landscape. Commonwealth Health Ministers’ Update 2009 Commonwealth Secretariat, London, pp. 59-65
Catalano R, Bruckner T, Smith KR (2008) Ambient Temperature Predicts Sex Ratios and Male Longevity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 105(6):2244–2247.
Banerjee R, Sagar A, Smith KR (eds), Development and Climate Change Benefits of Clean Energy in India, (part of the Woods Hole Research Center Project, Linking Climate Policy with Development Strategy in Brazil, China, and India: JP Holdren, PI). Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, 2007.
Patz JA, Gibbs HK, Foley JA, Rogers JV, and Smith KR (2007) Energy Climate Change and Global Health: Quantifying a Growing Ethical Crisis. EcoHealth 4:397–405.
Confalonieri, U., B. Menne, R. Akhtar, K.L. Ebi, M. Hauengue, R.S. Kovats, B. Revich and A. Woodward (2007) Human health, Ch 8,; In Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. Contribution of Working Group II to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. M.L. Parry, O.F. Canziani, J.P. Palutikof, P.J. van der Linden and C.E. Hanson, Eds., Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 391-431.
Wilkinson P, Smith KR, Joffe M, Haines A (2007) A global perspective on energy: health effects and injustices. Series on Energy and Health #1, Lancet 370: 5-18.
Wilkinson P, Smith KR, Beevers S, Tonne C, Oreszczyn T (2007) Energy, energy efficiency, and the built environment. Series on Energy and Health #4, Lancet 370: 42-54,.
Haines A, Smith KR, Anderson D, Epstein PR, McMichael AJ, Roberts I, Wilkinson P, Woodcock J, Woods J (2007) Policies for accelerating access to clean energy, improving health, advancing development, and mitigating climate change. Series on Energy and Health #6, Lancet 370: 66-83.
Smith KR (May 2006) Rural Air Pollution: A Major But Often Ignored Development Concern.Testimony at the Commission on Sustainable Development Session on Integrated Approaches to Addressing Air Pollution, United Nations, New York.
Smith KR (2006) Chapter 10: Women's Work: The Kitchen Kills More than the Sword. in Jaquette JS and Summerfield G, eds, Women and Gender Equity in Development Theory and Practice, Duke University Press, Durham, pp. 202-215.
Smith KR and others (2006) Energy and Air Pollution. Geo Yearbook 2006. United Nations Environment Programme, Nairobi.
Green D and Smith KR (2002) The Implications of Graduation: Why Developing Nations Will Never Produce More Greenhouse Gases Than Developed Countries. J of Energy and Development 28(1):15-40.
Kaltschmitt M, Thran D, Smith KR (2002) Renewable Energy from Biomass. Encyclopedia of Physical Sciences and Technology, Third Edition, Volume 14. Academic Press/Elsevier, Burlington, MA.
Smith KR (2002) In Praise of Petroleum? Science 298(5600):1847.
Holdren JP and Smith KR (2000) Chapter 3: Energy, the Environment & Health. World Energy Assessment: Energy & the Challenge of Sustainability. UNDP/CSD/WEC, New York.
Reddy AKN, Smith KR, Williams RH (2000) Chapter 10: Rural Energy in Developing Countries. World Energy Assessment: Energy & the Challenge of Sustainability. UNDP/CSD/WEC, New York.
Smith KR (1996) The Natural Debt: North and South, Ch. 16 in T. Giambelluca & A. Henderson-Sellers, eds. Climate Change: Developing Southern Hemisphere Perspectives, J. Wiley & Sons, UK, pp. 423-448.
Kammen DM, Smith KR, Rambo AT, Khalil MAK (1994) Preindustrial Human Environmental Impacts: Are There Lessons for Global Change Science and Policy? Chemosphere, 29(5):827-832.
Smith KR (1994) Pre-Industrial Missing Carbon and Current Greenhouse Responsibilities. Chemosphere, 2(5):1135-1143.
Hayes P & Smith KR, eds., (1993) Global Greenhouse Regime: Who Pays? Earthscan Publications Ltd, London and United Nations University Press.
Smith KR (1991) Allocating Responsibility for Global Warming: The Natural Debt Index. AMBIO, 20(2):95-96.
7. Environmental Health Policy, including Exposure Effectiveness (Intake Fraction) and Risk Transition
Comparative Environmental Health Assessments: A brief introduction and application in China, Annals of the NY Academy of Sciences 1140: 31-39, 2008
1: 17-18, 2008
WHO Air Quality Guidelines: Moving indoors; Air Quality, Atmosphere, and Health,
1: 17-18, 2008
Four Discussion Pieces on Setting Air Quality Guidelines; HEI Annual Conference, San Francisco, April 9, 2006
*Based on discussion pieces prepared for the WHO Air Quality Guidelines Expert Committee Meeting, October 2005, Bonn.
von Ehrenstein OS, Jenny AM, Basu A, Smith KR, Hira-Smith H, Smith AH (2006) Capacity Building in Environmental Health Research in India and Nepal. Int J Occup Environ Health 12:300–306.
Smith KR and Ezzati M (2005) How Environmental Health Risks Change With Development: The Epidemiologic and Environmental Risk Transitions Revisited. Annu Rev Environ Resour, 30:291–333.
Bodnar A, Castorina R, Desai M, Duramad P, Fischer S, Klepeis N, Liang S, Mehta S, Naumoff K, Noth EM, Schei M, Tian L, Vork KL, Smith KR (2004) Lessons learned from "the skeptical environmentalist": an env. health perspective. Int J Hyg Env Health 207(1):57-67.
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Smith, K.R. The Potential of Human Exposure Assessment for Air Pollution Regulation. WHO/EHG/95.09 Office of Global and Integrated Environmental Health, WHO, Geneva. 1995.

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