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DOI | 10.1038/NCLIMATE3165 |
Unequal household carbon footprints in China | |
Wiedenhofer, Dominik1; Guan, Dabo2; Liu, Zhu3; Meng, Jing4; Zhang, Ning5; Wei, Yi-Ming6,7 | |
2017 | |
发表期刊 | NATURE CLIMATE CHANGE |
ISSN | 1758-678X |
EISSN | 1758-6798 |
出版年 | 2017 |
卷号 | 7期号:1 |
文章类型 | Article |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | Austria; England; USA; Peoples R China |
英文摘要 | Households' carbon footprints are unequally distributed among the rich and poor due to differences in the scale and patterns of consumption. We present distributional focused carbon footprints for Chinese households and use a carbon-footprint-Gini coe cient to quantify inequalities. We find that in 2012 the urban very rich, comprising 5% of population, induced 19% of the total carbon footprint from household consumption in China, with 6.4 tCO(2)/cap. The average Chinese household footprint remains comparatively low (1.7 tCO(2)/cap), while those of the rural population and urban poor, comprising 58% of population, are 0.5-1.6 tCO(2)/cap. Between 2007 and 2012 the total footprint from households increased by 19%, with 75% of the increase due to growing consumption of the urban middle class and the rich. This suggests that a transformation of Chinese lifestyles away from the current trajectory of carbon-intensive consumption patterns requires policy interventions to improve living standards and encourage sustainable consumption. |
领域 | 资源环境 |
收录类别 | SCI-E ; SSCI |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000396346700019 |
WOS关键词 | BILLION HIGH EMITTERS ; CO2 EMISSIONS ; SUSTAINABLE CONSUMPTION ; DIOXIDE EMISSIONS ; INCOME INEQUALITY ; URBAN ; TRADE ; DETERMINANTS ; REDUCTIONS ; BEHAVIOR |
WOS类目 | Environmental Sciences ; Environmental Studies ; Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences |
WOS研究方向 | Environmental Sciences & Ecology ; Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences |
引用统计 | |
文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/33521 |
专题 | 资源环境科学 |
作者单位 | 1.Alpen Adria Univ Klagenfurt, IFF Vienna, Inst Social Ecol SEC, Schottenfeldgasse 29, A-1070 Vienna, Austria; 2.Univ East Anglia, Sch Int Dev, Water Secur Res Ctr, Norwich NR4 7JT, Norfolk, England; 3.CALTECH, Resnick Sustainabil Inst, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA; 4.Univ East Anglia, Sch Environm Sci, Norwich NR4 7JT, Norfolk, England; 5.Jinan Univ, Coll Econ, Guangzhou 510632, Guangdong, Peoples R China; 6.Beijing Inst Technol, Ctr Energy & Environm Policy Res, Beijing 100081, Peoples R China; 7.Beijing Inst Technol, Sch Management & Econ, Beijing 100081, Peoples R China |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Wiedenhofer, Dominik,Guan, Dabo,Liu, Zhu,et al. Unequal household carbon footprints in China[J]. NATURE CLIMATE CHANGE,2017,7(1). |
APA | Wiedenhofer, Dominik,Guan, Dabo,Liu, Zhu,Meng, Jing,Zhang, Ning,&Wei, Yi-Ming.(2017).Unequal household carbon footprints in China.NATURE CLIMATE CHANGE,7(1). |
MLA | Wiedenhofer, Dominik,et al."Unequal household carbon footprints in China".NATURE CLIMATE CHANGE 7.1(2017). |
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