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Jennifer Dickie
Jen Dickie is an environmental geographer who specialises in using mixed-method approaches to bridge the disciplinary boundaries between the natural and social sciences. She is particularly interested in socio-spatial approaches to understanding how people interact with different environments. Jen has experience working with marginalised communities in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, and social and environmental justice is central to her research.
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Overcoming socio-cultural resistance towards biogas technology
Cultural taboos are often described as an insurmountable barrier to adoption of domestic toilet-linked anaerobic digesters (TLADs). This study provides a better understanding of the socio-cultural resistance towards TLADs through findings from interviews with households in Assam, and demonstrates that this resistance can be negotiable in certain circumstances. It highlights various pathways to adoption of TLADs and suggests ways in which the implementation of the national biogas programmes could become more effective.
