Overview
- The first work of its kind that carries out such an analysis of the direct and indirect energy requirements of household consumption in India at both an aggregate national level and disaggregate household level and for a time horizon covering the last two decades
- Allows for analyzing how energy use patterns and energy consumption are linked with the quality of life of individual households or persons and provides a novel view of the energy system and development in India by adopting a household perspective
- Makes a first step in identifying the key driving forces and some important trends in technical, economic, demographic, and lifestyles changes that are having an impact on the patterns and use of energy within the country over the last couple of decades
Part of the book series: Alliance for Global Sustainability Bookseries (AGSB, volume 13)
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Book Title: An Energy Analysis of Household Consumption
Book Subtitle: Changing Patterns of Direct and Indirect Use in India
Editors: Shonali Pachauri
Series Title: Alliance for Global Sustainability Bookseries
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5712-0
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2007
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-4301-7Published: 01 June 2007
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-9689-8Published: 02 November 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-5712-0Published: 17 August 2007
Series ISSN: 1571-4780
Series E-ISSN: 2215-1699
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 211
Topics: Environmental Management, Energy Policy, Economics and Management, Environment, general, Development Economics, Microeconomics, Energy, general