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  • Drivers of Climate Change in Urban India

    Social Values, Lifestyles, and Consumer Dynamics in an Emerging Megacity

    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This study transcends the homogenizing (inter-)national level of argumentation (‘rich’ versus ‘poor’ countries), and instead looks at a sub-national level in two respects: (1) geographically it focuses on the rapidly growing megacity of Hyderabad; (2) in socio-economic terms the urban population is disaggregated by taking a lifestyle typology approach. For the first time, the lifestyle concept – ... Leer más

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  • Methods for Stakeholder Analysis

    Exploring actor constellations in transition and change processes towards sustainable resource use and the case of Hyderabad, India

    Series Libro 1/2009 - Emerging megacities
    Currently 23 cities exceed the 10 million inhabitants’ threshold. The number of world’s megacities is expected to grow to 39 in 2025 with 32 of these in emerging economies. While today cities cater for over half of the world’s population, they are facing ever increasing environmental problems. Whether or not an emerging megacity will be able to cope with expected climate change impacts and ... Leer más

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  • Partners for a Low-Carbon Hyderabad

    A stakeholder analysis with respect to “Lifestyle Dynamics and Climate Change”

    Series Libro 4/2009 - Emerging megacities
    This paper analyses the structure of local, regional and national stakeholders that might be relevant for a transition of Hyderabad into a low-carbon megacity. The main angle of the stakeholder selection in this report is defined by the leading question of our research: How do (local) lifestyle dynamics contribute to climate change, and how can lifestyle changes help to reduce local emissions and ... Leer más

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  • Social Representation of Climate Change

    A case study from Hyderabad (India)

    Series Libro 4/2010 - Emerging megacities
    In this report we underline the importance of studying the social representation of climate change for climate policy, especially in a democracy such as India. Social representations are, from a social science point of view, no epiphenomena of ‘real’ issues, but the very fabric of individual reality and, building on that, collective decision making. If climate change is not socially represented, ... Leer más

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  • The Climate Fix

    What Scientists and Politicians Won't Tell You About Global Warming

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  • Climate Change

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  • Status of the World's Soil Resources. Technical Summary

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  • Local Governments and Climate Change

    Sustainable Energy Planning and Implementation in Small and Medium Sized Communities

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  • Gentrification

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