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Drivers of Climate Change in Urban India

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

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Authors:
  1. Lutz Meyer-Ohlendorf

    1. Member of the Leibniz Association, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Potsdam, Germany

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  • 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

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
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  2. Introduction: Climate Change and Lifestyle – The Relevance of New Concepts for Social-Ecological Research

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    Pages 1-8

  3. Approaches of Measuring Human Impacts on Climate Change

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    Pages 9-47

  4. The Research Context: India and the Megacity of Hyderabad

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    Pages 49-79

  5. Conceptualisation and Operationalisation – A Social Geography of Climate Change: Social-Cultural Mentalities, Lifestyle, and Related GHG Emission Effects in Indian Cities

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    Pages 81-139

  6. Results Part I: Descriptive Analysis of Manifest Variables and Preparation of Latent Components for the Lifestyle Analysis

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    Pages 141-174

  7. Results Part II: Income, Practice, and Lifestyle-Oriented Analysis of Personal-Level GHG Emissions

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    Pages 175-217

  8. Discussion

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    Pages 219-243

  9. Final Conclusions: Understanding Inequalities in Consumption-Based, Personal-Level GHG Emissions

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    Pages 245-251

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 253-271
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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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“Drivers of Climate Change in Urban India appears most useful for social scientists studying climate change, or climate scientists interested in social and cultural impacts on emissions, especially those looking to apply a mixture of quantitative and qualitative research tools in specific urban settings.” (Christine Ro, E&U Enviroment & Urbanization, environmentandurbanization.org, May 06, 2019)



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  • Member of the Leibniz Association, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Potsdam, Germany

    Lutz Meyer-Ohlendorf

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

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