Drivers of Climate Change in Urban India

Presents the first lifestyle typology in the Indian context
Provides a lifestyle-specific analysis of individual level carbon footprints applied to the Global South

Offers a new methodology on segmenting lifestyles based on Indian specific value orientations and social practices

Comprehensively analyzes a representative survey on personal level carbon footprints in urban India

Presents the first lifestyle typology in the Indian context Provides a lifestyle-specific analysis of individual level carbon footprints applied to the Global South Offers a new methodology on segmenting lifestyles based on Indian specific value orientations and social practices Comprehensively analyzes a representative survey on personal level carbon footprints in urban India

Autorentext
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.