1st Edition
Residential Electricity Consumption in Urbanizing China Time Use and Climate-Friendly Living
182 Pages
96 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
182 Pages
96 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
182 Pages
96 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book forges a link between residential CO 2 emissions and time use, focussing on China as a key case study.
To provide a better understanding of the energy implications of the lifestyle differences between urban and rural China, Pui Ting Wong and Yuan Xu utilise time-use methodology as an alternative way to explore the links between individual lifestyle and residential electricity... Read more
1 Introduction, 2 Time use in evolving China, 3 Estimating residential electricity and CO2 intensity of time-use activity, 4 Residential CO2 emissions of lifestyles, 5 The climate impacts of lifestyles from demographic changes, 6 Time-use management for carbon mitigation
Biography
Pui Ting Wong is a Ph.D. student in the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, LMU Munich, Germany.
Yuan Xu is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and Resource Management at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is also leading the Environmental Policy and Governance Programme in the Institute of Environment, Energy, and Sustainability.
