Drivers of Climate Change in Urban India : Social Values, Lifestyles, and Consumer Dynamics in an Emerging Megacity Hardback
by Lutz Meyer-Ohlendorf
Part of the Springer Climate series
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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.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:271 pages, 31 Illustrations, color; 13 Illustrations, black and white; XX, 271 p. 44 illus., 31 illu
- Publisher:Springer International Publishing AG
- Publication Date:01/12/2018
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- ISBN:9783319966694
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Item not Available
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:271 pages, 31 Illustrations, color; 13 Illustrations, black and white; XX, 271 p. 44 illus., 31 illu
- Publisher:Springer International Publishing AG
- Publication Date:01/12/2018
- Category:
- ISBN:9783319966694
