Review on People’s Lifestyle and Energy Consumption of Asian Communities: Case Study of Indonesia, Thailand, and China

Novianto, Didit; Gao, Weijun; Kuroki, Shin-Ichiro

doi:10.4236/epe.2015.710045

Cited by 18 publications

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“…It is known that food availability and food accessibility are the indicators of food security that depict the situation of farm household, while food consumption is the indicator of direct impact of food security, reflected by the quantity and quality of farm household food consumption. The result found that significant relationship was found 78.78 % (Table 2) between household food security, food consumption pattern and exogenous variables (household size, access to food family expenditure, energy consumption (Novianto et al, 2015), and protein consumption (Bahta et al, 2017).…”

Section: Level Of Household Food Securitymentioning

confidence: 98%

Climate change adaptation strategy for sustainability and food security of cassava farming households in Lampung, Indonesia

Murniati¹,

Widjaya²,

Adawiyah³

et al. 2019

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Climate change causes significant impact on fluctuating agricultural production and food security. This study aimed to assess farmer's adaptation strategies to the impact of climate change in cassava farming and to analyze food security level of cassava farming households. The research was conducted in Gunung Agung Village and Gunung Batin Village, Terusan Nunyai Subdistrict, Central Lampung Regency. A total of 66 cassava farmers were selected through simple random sampling. Data analysis applied were descriptive analysis of food security level according to the definition of FAO and Ordinal Logit (Ologit) analysis. Results showed that an average of 5 climate change adaptation strategies were applied by cassava farmers. Food security level of majority of casava farming households was found to fall into the less secure category. Climate change adaptation strategy (1.56), land size (5.36), and price of rice (-0.004) were identified to affect food security of cassava farming households.

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Section: Level Of Household Food Securitymentioning

confidence: 98%

Climate change adaptation strategy for sustainability and food security of cassava farming households in Lampung, Indonesia

Murniati¹,

Widjaya²,

Adawiyah³

et al. 2019

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“…Several studies of residential energy consumption have been conducted in Southeast Asia [5][6][7][8][9]. The MECON project investigated ways of increasing energy efficiency among low-income households who have access to grid electricity in the Greater Mekong Subregion (Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Qualitative Study on Electricity Consumption of Urban and Rural Households in Chiang Rai, Thailand, with a Focus on Ownership and Use of Air Conditioners

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This study investigated the differences in household energy consumption between urban and rural households in northern Thailand, with a particular focus on air-conditioner ownership and use. In-depth visits to 32 households in Chiang Rai were undertaken in 2016 and 2017. The data collection covered six aspects: household attributes, ownership of electric appliances, use of air conditioners (ACs), intentions to conserve electricity, desire to purchase electric appliances in the future, and prospects for a future lifestyle. Traditional stilt houses can still be found in rural areas, but ACs have been introduced as rural houses have modernized. The typical period of AC use in rural areas was 2 to 4 months during summer. In urban households, ACs were used for a longer period, from 3 to 12 months each year. In addition, rural households usually used ACs for only a few hours each day before sleeping, whereas urban households often used them while they slept and some used them throughout the day. Households with children and grandchildren tended to use the AC for longer periods. These results suggest that promotion of environmentally friendly lifestyles for younger adults to control overuse of ACs would be key to reducing energy consumption in the future.

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“…The motivation to use PSS could be changed according to the specific needs and focus of residents in Bangkok, and the environmental impacts from the use of PSS may also produce different results from other countries where most consumers own a PW. However, few studies have investigated the environmental impact of the use of PSS and PW in laundry habits in countries in which PW have yet to become widespread, such as Thailand [3,22]. The study aimed to define the use of CL and LS and to clarify the environmental implications of PSS in laundry habits in Bangkok, Thailand.…”

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Environmental Implications of Laundry Habits in Bangkok: Use Patterns of Products and Services

Moon¹,

Amasawa²,

Hirao³

2019

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This study aimed to define the use of products and services of PSS associated with laundry businesses such as coin-operated self-service laundromats (CL) and laundry services (LS) in order to get a better understanding of the environmental implications of PSS in laundry habits in Bangkok, Thailand. The motivation to use product-service systems (PSS) could vary according to the specific consumer needs often defined by cultures, and therefore the environmental impacts from the PSS use would result differently from country to country. Questionnaires and in-depth interviews were conducted with Bangkok residents to determine the laundry habits related to the use of PSS. As a result, the use of private washing machines (PW) was found to be in the main option and CL and LS were used as an additional option in the laundry habits. Regarding the environmental potential, the respondent who uses CL and LS frequently tended to do laundry less often than those who only use PW. Meanwhile, CL and LS users adopted the use of tumble dryer more often, and the need to use was high compared to others who do not use PSS. The need to improve the quality of laundry is expected to increase with the improvement of quality of living in Bangkok in the near future. However, at the same time, these observations imply that change of consumer behaviors related to the use of PSS can affect energy consumption and environmental burdens. To further clarify sustainable consumption and production systems, a quantitative analysis of the environmental impact of the laundry habits remains as a future task.

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Review on People’s Lifestyle and Energy Consumption of Asian Communities: Case Study of Indonesia, Thailand, and China

Cited by 18 publications

References 22 publications

Climate change adaptation strategy for sustainability and food security of cassava farming households in Lampung, Indonesia

Climate change adaptation strategy for sustainability and food security of cassava farming households in Lampung, Indonesia

Qualitative Study on Electricity Consumption of Urban and Rural Households in Chiang Rai, Thailand, with a Focus on Ownership and Use of Air Conditioners

Environmental Implications of Laundry Habits in Bangkok: Use Patterns of Products and Services

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