Output details
15 - General Engineering
University of Surrey
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Article title
The bare necessities: How much household carbon do we really need?
Type
D - Journal article
Title of journal
Ecological Economics
Article number
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Volume number
69
Issue number
9
First page of article
1794
ISSN of journal
09218009
Year of publication
2010
URL
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Number of additional authors
-
Additional information
Challenging the paradigm that technological interventions will be sufficient to meet unrestrained future demand in a low carbon economy, this study put forward the concept that it may be more appropriate to aim to meet the needs of a ‘decent life’. The study was thus agenda setting, being the first to quantify the carbon footprint of a ‘decent life’. It led to a research contract with the Joseph Rowntree Foundation to explore ‘green minimum income standards’, and also to ESRC/NERC funding for a PhD student starting October 2012 building on the concepts.
Interdisciplinary
Yes
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17 - Geography, Environmental Studies and Archaeology
Research group
None
Proposed double-weighted
No
Double-weighted statement
-
Reserve for a double-weighted output
No
Non-English
No
English abstract
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