Drivers of Climate Change in Urban India Social Values, Lifestyles, and Consumer Dynamics in an Emerging Megacity /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Meyer-Ohlendorf, Lutz (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2019.
• Σειρά: Springer Climate,
• Θέματα: Sustainable development.; Climate change.; Social structure.; Social inequality.; Human geography.; Sustainable Development.; Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts.; Social Structure, Social Inequality.; Human Geography.

This study transcends the homogenizing (inter-)national level of argumentation ('rich' versus 'poor' countries), and instead looks at a sub-national level in two respects: (1) geographically it focuses on the rapidly growing megacity of Hyderabad; (2) in socio-economic terms the...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Chapter1. Introduction: Climate change and lifestyle - the relevance of new concepts for socialecological research
• Chapter2. Approaches of measuring human impacts on climate change
• Chapter3. The research context: India and the megacity of Hyderabad
• Chapter4. Conceptualisation and operationalisation - A social geography of climate change: Social-cultural mentalities, lifestyle, and related GHG emission effects in Indian cities
• Chapter5. Results part I - Descriptive analysis of manifest variables and preparation of latent components for the lifestyle analysis
• Chapter6. Results part II - Income, practice, and lifestyle-oriented analysis of personal-level GHG emissions
• Chapter7. Discussion
• Chapter8. Final conclusions - Understanding inequalities in consumption-based, personal level GHG emissions.