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Hello, I am a student at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute majoring in Sustainability Studies and Economics. I’ve been studying appropriate technology and the global economic system for the majority of my academic career and intend to incorporate the knowledge I’ve gained into a thesis.

This email seeks to elicit crucial information from professionals in the field so that my arguments and conclusion will be properly informed. I am seeking to explore factors in resource transfer between more and less developed countries through context provided by the clean cook stove movement. By resource I am referring to social, material, and technological components that are reallocated as a direct result of interactions between different regions.

I am primarily interested in what some have referred to as the “last mile distribution” portion of the problem because I hope to use conclusions drawn from the clean cookstove movement to make more encompassing conclusions about resource transfer overall. The list of questions included below will inform the conclusions I hope to make in my thesis. The overall goal of this thesis is to establish guidelines for how resources should be transferred to developing countries to allow for sustainable and environmentally just development.

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What professional and educational background led to your work in field of globalization and development?

Where has most of your work on development taken place? What led you to do so much of your work in that location?

What types of technologies have you advocated to solve problems with development? Do you use these technologies yourself in your day-to-day life?

Have you done anything in the projects you worked on to preserve the local culture and if so, how do you ensure this?

What is the most effective system of resource transfer in your opinion and why?

Do you consider the physical resource limits of an area before implementing a plan for a project or giving advice to people of that area?

What types of institutions do you believe should govern the development of countries obtaining aid from more developed ones?

How do you decide where projects or information dissemination is needed? Do you advocate for a single solution or many possible ones when it is determined that interaction is beneficial?

How deeply do you immerse yourself (or believe people should immerse themselves) in a local culture before providing locals with a solution to whatever you are advocating to solve?

Under what definition do you consider a development project a success?

Is there follow up after a project (or various other form of resource transfer) you generally take part in and if so, what form does this usually take?

Do you feel that any level of dependency is created when some form of institution seeks to help an impoverished local community?

Which efficient stove technologies are the most important to disseminate and why?

What other people do you feel are most prominent in your field of globalization and development that could help me get better informed?

What academic papers, books, or other forms of media have had the largest impact on how you interact as a global citizen in integrating and transfer various resources?