Memo+26+draft+overview+(Dan+F)

This study aims to explore and advance understanding on what the proper and fair approach to interactions between more developed and significantly less developed countries should entail in terms of sustainability, economics, and politics in the transfer of ideas and natural resources. This will be accomplished through a review of the existing literature on the subject, an examination of the current supposed solutions, and a collection of interviews from professionals in the field. The primary data will be taken from five countries and review the successes an failures of the clean cook stove movement in order to draw more encompassing conclusions on development through interviews with professionals in the field. This will be an efficient approach to drawing more encompassing conclusions because the stove movement has been around for a significant amount of time to draw conclusions and those conclusions have the potential to apply to many other development projects. This project will be taken up as a thesis to my academic career at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute as a dual Sustainability Studies- Economics major. This work will build on three semesters of independent undergraduate research on clean cook stoves for the developing world and experience in Ghana building parabolic solar reflectors.