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An Energy Analysis of Household Consumption

Changing Patterns of Direct and Indirect Use in India

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  • © 2007

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Editors:
  1. Shonali Pachauri

    1. IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria

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  • 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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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XII
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  2. Introduction

    Pages 1-12

  3. An Overview of Energy Consumption in India

    Pages 13-38

  4. Energy Analysis and Energy Intensities for India

    Pages 39-84

  5. Total and Average Household Energy Requirements

    Pages 85-108

  6. Disaggregate Household Energy Requirements

    Pages 109-149

  7. Energy Requirements and Well Being

    Pages 151-180

  8. Conclusions and Reflections

    Pages 181-198

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 199-211
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The book presents a novel socio-economic approach to analysing the - ergy system and energy consumption in India from a household persp- tive. In doing so, it views households as the ultimate end-consumers and estimates and analyses the direct and indirect energy requirements of household consumption, both at an aggregate national level as well as at a disaggregate household level. In addition, the work incorporates two c- cial aspects often ignored by many energy studies that are characteristic of most developing countries, namely the importance of non-commercial sources of biomass energy in the energy systems of these countries, and the enormous diversity and inequity in the patterns of energy access and use across households with different lifestyles and levels of well being. This work was initiated as part of my Ph.D. thesis at the Centre for - ergy Policy and Economics (CEPE) at the Swiss Federal Institute of Te- nology in Z urich (ETHZ ). The thesis was completed at the end of 2002.

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  • IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria

    Shonali Pachauri

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