[Roundtable] NCEAS Roundtable (Pia Otte): Please note room change

[Mary Hunsicker]

Dear all,

Please join us for an NCEAS Roundtable this *Monday, July 21st * at 
12:15 pm in conference room #323 (3rd floor of Balboa Building).

Ms. Pia Otte
PhD Candidate
Norwegian University of Science and Technology

will present a seminar on:

"Sunrise or sunset? -- A comparative study on the successful adoption of 
institutional solar cookers in the developing world"**

Abstract: This study investigates the determining factors that lead to 
the (not) successful adoption of institutional solar cookers. 
Qualitative interviews were conducted with 24 institutions in four 
different countries (Botswana, Burkina Faso, South Africa and India) 
that had a particular
type of solar cooker installed. A Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) 
approach was employed to answer the question at hand. The analysis 
results in four core variables, the presence of which leads to the 
successful adoption of solar cookers. These are: (1) 'High Compatibility 
with Schedule of Daily Routine', (2) 'High Compatibility with Local Food 
Characteristics', (3) 'High Levels of Economic Motivation' and (4) 'High 
Levels of Environmental Motivation'. An interesting result is that 
institutions that have successfully adopted solar cookers are religious 
institutions. In these contexts, 'High Compatibility with Local Food 
Characteristics'
and 'High Levels of Environmental Motivation' take on a different 
meaning than that which
is assumed previously in the literature. The religious institutions that 
successfully adopted
solar cookers show a very strong affinity for protecting nature as part 
of their spiritual belief.
Furthermore, the condition 'High Compatibility with Local Food 
Characteristics' took on
another spiritual meaning apart from the actual objective taste; it 
became associated with
purity, one major principle of Hinduism.

Everyone is welcome to attend.

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