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To each their own? The greenhouse gas impacts of intra-household sharing in different urban zones
- Source :
- Journal of Cleaner Production. 135:356-367
- Publication Year :
- 2016
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2016.
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Abstract
- Decreasing household size is a global trend, driven by urbanization and multiple other socioeconomic trends. Going solo poses a great environmental challenge, as the possibility to benefit from scale economies in consumption and its greenhouse gas impacts is not taken advantage of. In other words, understanding of intra-household sharing patterns of different consumption categories is increasingly important in climate change mitigation. This paper explores the relationship between household sizes, urban structures, and greenhouse gas impacts of lifestyles. When urban areas grow outwards, the household sizes also grow. As a result of this, the increase in intra-household sharing seems to alleviate the negative GHG implications of urban sprawl, which is highly logical but yet not comprehended. Thus, the rise of collaborative consumption offers potential to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions of solo dwellers, and compensate for the lower intra-household sharing with inter-household sharing.
- Subjects :
- ta520
Natural resource economics
020209 energy
Strategy and Management
Lifestyles
02 engineering and technology
Input-output analysis
010501 environmental sciences
01 natural sciences
Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
Sharing economy
Urbanization
11. Sustainability
0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
Economics
Cities
Household size
ta218
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
General Environmental Science
Consumption (economics)
Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
business.industry
Environmental resource management
1. No poverty
Sharing
Urban sprawl
Building and Construction
Carbon footprint
Economies of scale
Climate change mitigation
13. Climate action
Greenhouse gas
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 09596526
- Volume :
- 135
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Cleaner Production
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....2d0889e167a03d53a50a156ec0563116