Residential Electricity Consumption in Urbanizing China: Time Use and Climate-Friendly Living

by Pui Ting Wong, Yuan Xu

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367261481
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	03/18/2022
Series:	Routledge Focus on Energy Studies
Pages:	182
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

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