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DOI10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2018.06.006
Carbon mitigation in domains of high consumer lock-in
Ivanova, Diana1; Vita, Gibran1; Wood, Richard1; Lausselet, Carine1; Dumitru, Adina2; Krause, Karen3; Macsinga, Irina4; Hertwich, Edgar G.5
2018-09-01
发表期刊GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS
ISSN0959-3780
EISSN1872-9495
出版年2018
卷号52页码:117-130
文章类型Article
语种英语
国家Norway; Spain; Germany; Romania; USA
英文摘要

As climate policy needs to address all feasible ways to reduce carbon emissions, there is an increasing focus on demand-side solutions. Studies of household carbon footprints have allocated emissions during production to the consumption of the produced goods, and provided an understanding of what products and consumer actions cause significant emissions. Social scientists have investigated how attitudes, social norms, and structural factors shape salient behavior. Yet, there is often a disconnect as emission reductions through individual actions in the important domains of housing and mobility are challenging to attain due to lock-ins and structural constraints. Furthermore, most behavioral research focuses on actions that are easy to trace but of limited consequence as a share of total emissions. Here we study specific alternative consumption patterns seeking both to understand the behavioral and structural factors that determine those patterns and to quantify their effect on carbon footprints. We do so utilizing a survey on consumer behavioral, attitudinal, contextual and socio-demographic factors in four different regions in the EU. Some differences occur in terms of the driving forces behind behaviors and their carbon intensities. Based on observed differences in mobility carbon footprints across households, we find that the key determining element to reduced emissions is settlement density, while car ownership, rising income and long distances are associated with higher mobility footprints. For housing, our results indicate that changes in dwelling standards and larger household sizes may reduce energy needs and the reliance on fossil fuels. However, there remains a strong need for incentives to reduce the carbon intensity of heating and air travel. We discuss combined effects and the role of policy in overcoming structural barriers in domains where consumers as individuals have limited agency.


英文关键词Climate change mitigation Lock-In Consumer behavior Carbon intensity Determinants Policy measures
领域气候变化
收录类别SCI-E ; SSCI
WOS记录号WOS:000449444900012
WOS关键词GREENHOUSE-GAS EMISSIONS ; LIFE-CYCLE ASSESSMENT ; CLIMATE-CHANGE ; ENVIRONMENTAL ATTITUDES ; ENERGY-REQUIREMENTS ; CONSUMPTION ; URBAN ; IMPACT ; POLICY ; FOOTPRINT
WOS类目Environmental Sciences ; Environmental Studies ; Geography
WOS研究方向Environmental Sciences & Ecology ; Geography
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条目标识符http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/37911
专题气候变化
作者单位1.Norwegian Univ Sci & Technol NTNU Trondheim, Trondheim, Norway;
2.Univ A Coruna UDC, La Coruna, Spain;
3.Otto von Guericke Univ Magdeburg OVGU, Magdeburg, Germany;
4.West Univ Timisoara UVT, Timis, Romania;
5.Yale Univ, Sch Forestry & Environm Studies, New Haven, CT 06511 USA
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Ivanova, Diana,Vita, Gibran,Wood, Richard,et al. Carbon mitigation in domains of high consumer lock-in[J]. GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS,2018,52:117-130.
APA Ivanova, Diana.,Vita, Gibran.,Wood, Richard.,Lausselet, Carine.,Dumitru, Adina.,...&Hertwich, Edgar G..(2018).Carbon mitigation in domains of high consumer lock-in.GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS,52,117-130.
MLA Ivanova, Diana,et al."Carbon mitigation in domains of high consumer lock-in".GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS 52(2018):117-130.
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