Consumption Patterns
Affidavit filed by the Rajasthan State Pollution Control Board illegal and polluting kilns/crucibles along the Haryana-Rajasthan border near the Aravalli range, 01/05/2025
Short affidavit on behalf of the Rajasthan State Pollution Control Board (RSPCB) in terms of the National Green Tribunal order dated January 22, 2025. The application was registered suo motu by the NGT on the basis of a news item titled "Toxic kilns pollution Aravallis; wildlife and locals suffer" appearing …Childhood obesity: affecting choices
The statistics are grimly familiar. According to the latest National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, every other child in the USA now has a body-mass index (BMI) at or above the 85th centile on age-specific national growth charts for ideal weight gain. And a nationwide survey by the Kaiser Family …Shining for the poor too?
The authors revisit the findings of their past research on poverty and growth in India in the light of the 14 rounds of the National Sample Survey now available for the period since economic reforms began in 1991. They find that the rate of poverty reduction has increased in the …Missing the wood for the trees
The IPCCCould less meat mean more food?
Here's a simple idea you may have heard for improving food security: Eat less meat. The logic goes like this. People in the developed world eat a huge amount of animal protein. And consumption of meat, eggs, and milk is already growing globally as people in poorer nations get richer …Greenhouse gas emission footprints and energy use benchmarks for eight U.S. cities
A hybrid life cycle-based trans-boundary greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions footprint is elucidated at the city-scale and evaluated for 8 US cities. The method incorporates end-uses of energy within city boundaries, plus cross-boundary demand for airline/freight transport and embodied energy of four key urban materials [food, water, energy (fuels), and shelter …Standby consumption in households analyzed with a practice theory approach
This article focuses on the energy consumption of households and the question of how daily routines can be changed in a more sustainable direction. It discusses different theoretical approaches with which to understand consumer behavior and introduces practice theory that emphasizes sociotechnical structures as the basis for analyzing stability of …Life cycle cost disclosure, consumer behavior, and business implications : Evidence from an online field experiment
Comprehensive assessments of final consumption have identified "housing" as a major contributor to total environmental impacts. Within this category, electrical-energy-using products are important. Do consumers opt for more energy-efficient household appliances if they are provided with life cycle cost (LCC)User?producer interaction in housing energy innovations: Energy innovation as a communication challenge
Von Hippel and colleagues have highlighted the crucial role of users in innovation in different industries and types of products. They describe the innovation process in terms of the distinct domains of knowledge that producers and users possess. Producers have knowledge about technical solutions and users about their needs, the …How city dwellers affect their resource hinterland : A spatial impact study of Australian households
This article links databases on household consumption, industrial production, economic turnover, employment, water use, and greenhouse gas emissions into a spatially explicit model. The causal sequence starts with households demanding a certain consumer basket. This demand requires production in a complex supply-chain network of interdependent industry sectors. Even though the …The impact of social factors and consumer behavior on carbon dioxide emissions in the United Kingdom
In this article the authors apply geodemographic consumer segmentation data in an input?output framework to understand the direct and indirect carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions associated with consumer behavior of different lifestyles in the United Kingdom.More or better? A model for changes in household greenhouse gas emissions due to higher income
Households exert an important influence on total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Therefore, their consumption behavior is of interest in evaluations of climate policy options and projections of future emission paths. While most evaluations of household consumption and its emissions are based on expenditure only, we use a household consumption model …Sustainable consumption and production: An agenda beyond sustainable consumer procurement
Since the recent, very tangible manifestations of the multiple crises in our economic, environmental, and social systems, there is increasing recognition of the need to change how we do things. This has led to the more regular use of words such as transition, transformation, and eco-innovation, especially in areas of …Can sustainable consumers and producers save the planet?
Anthropogenic carbon emissions exemplify modern resource overexploitation. The consumption of 1.2 billion richer humans accounts for some 75% of total emissions. Instead of viewing these consumers as part of the problem, we should persuade them to contribute to the solution.Impact of the global financial and economic situation on agricultural markets and food security
Agricultural prices have fallen heavily since their peaks in the first half of 2008: some are already at the levels seen in early 2007 before the recent spike began. Thanks in part to economic downturn, prices are expected to continue falling in 2009. Prices of inputs such as fertiliser and …Regional trade opportunities for Asian agriculture
Trade in food and other agricultural products is increasingly important across East and Southeast Asia, where high-income Asian economies have driven significant agricultural expansion, and the momentous growth of the PeopleCommunication of information on China's autonumous domestic mitigation actions
This document contains the letter, regarding the communication of ChinaTrends in urban poverty under economic reforms: 1993-94 to 2004-05
Urban poverty, when directly measured by counting the persons unable to access the official nutrition norm of 2,100 calories through their total monthly spending on all goods and services, declined between 1983 and 1993-94, but rose substantially between 1993-94 and 2004-05 while poverty depth has increased. This is particularly evident …The end of cheap ecology and the crisis of long Keynesianism
It is the crisis of negative Keynesianism that is at the heart of the current critical point, and which is leaving its global institutionsUnderstanding changes in the UKs CO2 emissions: A global perspective
The UK appears to be a leading country in curbing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Unlike many other developed countries, it has already met its Kyoto obligations and defined ambitious, legally binding targets for the future. Recently this achievement has been called into question as it ignores rapidly changing patterns of …First barbecues
Book>> Catching Fire • by Richard Wrangham • Basic Books • Indian Price Rs 450 One hundred and fifty years ago, Charles Darwin theorized intelligence and adaptability make us human. But primatologist Richard Warngham thinks our human nature has a lot to do with the invention of the barbecue—some 1.9 …