Drivers of Climate Change in Urban India (eBook)

Social Values, Lifestyles, and Consumer Dynamics in an Emerging Megacity

Lutz Meyer-Ohlendorf (Autor)

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2018 | 1st ed. 2019
XX, 271 Seiten
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-96670-0 (ISBN)

Infos

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 urban population is disaggregated by taking a lifestyle typology approach. For the first time, the lifestyle concept - traditionally being used in affluent consumer societies - is applied to a dynamically transforming and socially heterogeneous urban society. Methodically, the author includes India-specific value orientations as well as social practices as markers of social structural differentiation. The study identifies differentials of lifestyle-induced GHG emissions (carbon footprints) and underlines the ambiguity of a purely income based differentiation with regard to the levels of contribution to the climate problem.

Dr. Lutz Meyer-Ohlendorf is a social geographer at Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) in Germany.

Inhalt

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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.11.2018
• Reihe/Serie: Springer Climate
• Reihe/Serie: Springer Climate
• Zusatzinfo: XX, 271 p. 44 illus., 31 illus. in color.
• Verlagsort: Cham
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: Climate change impacts • global South • lifestyle-based carbon footprint • Lifestyle patterns of Hyderabad • Megacity Project Hyderabad • per capita greenhouse gas emissions • Personal Carbon Footprinting • Social structure analysis • sustainable consumption • Urban lifestyle dynamics
• ISBN-10: 3-319-96670-7 / 3319966707
• ISBN-13: 978-3-319-96670-0 / 9783319966700