Residential Electricity Consumption in Urbanizing China

This book forges a link between residential CO2 emissions and time use, focussing on China as a key case study. Residential Electricity Consumption in Urbanizing China will be of great interest to scholars of climate policy, energy studies, time use and urban planning.

Autorentext

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.

Klappentext

This book forges a link between residential CO2 emissions and time use, focussing on China as a key case study. Residential Electricity Consumption in Urbanizing China will be of great interest to scholars of climate policy, energy studies, time use and urban planning.

Inhalt

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