The “Paris Lifestyle”—Bridging the Gap Between Science and Communication by Analysing and Quantifying the Role of Target Groups for Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation: An Interdisciplinary Approach

Schwarzinger, Stephan; Bird, David Neil; Hadler, Markus

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“…This is in line with findings on the European level, where no "average Europeans" could be identified in a relevant number. As found in an earlier study with an Austrian dataset from 2009 (Schwarzinger et al, 2018), "mobility," again, turned out to play a crucial role for Energy Lifestyles by showing the largest relative difference in energy demand between the groups. A similarly massive impact of "mobility" was found in a Europe-wide view (Schwarzinger et al, 2019a).…”

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The Multidimensionality of Consumption: Energy Lifestyles

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This chapter enhances the previous understanding of Energy Lifestyles by identifying groups with distinct patterns of energy behavior across six areas of life. In contrast to most previous studies, the identification of groups is exclusively conducted on the basis of behavior-related data, whereas the characterization of the groups follows in a second step using psychological and socio-demographic variables. This chapter explicitly considers the multidimensionality of behavior and provides a comprehensive overview of different Energy Lifestyles and their potential roles in energy transition. The finding that there are almost no “average users” points out that policy designs must go beyond average figures based on the national emission figures and need to focus on different Energy Lifestyles.

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“…Therefore, the cluster solutions can be expected to differ considerably more in the groups' energy-relevant behaviour and impacts than what is the case with proxy models, which have shown to reveal groups with little or no differences in their energy demands or greenhouse gas emissions [44,45]. This expectation was supported by a typology generated with an impact-based approach for an Austrian sample [43]. The impact-based approach also has an advantage with regard to the comparability of resulting typologies: the relationship between certain behaviours and the resulting primary energy demand is deterministic, which means that the path between behaviour and the related consequence is known.…”

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“…Both studies were conducted practically at the same time in the same country, and both aimed at identifying energy-relevant lifestyle groups. However, they obtained incommensurable and internally inconsistent results [43]. One of the studies [44] identified four groups with nearly identical energy use patterns and impacts.…”

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Identifying Consumer Lifestyles through Their Energy Impacts: Transforming Social Science Data into Policy-Relevant Group-Level Knowledge

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The analytical framework presented herein is based on the identification of social groups with distinct patterns in their energy-relevant behaviour. This was achieved by clustering individuals according to their primary energy demands in six main areas of life. Due to the close relationship between energy-relevant behaviour and associated impacts, the suggested approach is considered better suited for the identification of groups with actual differences in their climate and energy-related behaviour than conventional approaches that cluster individuals based on their psychological or sociodemographic characteristics. Moreover, it is assumed that this focus on energy-relevant behaviour leads to a higher measuring equivalence in a country comparison or in a longitudinal setting. From an analytical point of view, the most significant benefit of the presented method over conventional lifestyle typologies is that all psychological, cultural and sociodemographic factors can be used as explanatory variables without resulting in circular reasoning. In terms of required data, the approach was designed around what could be collected by conventional survey methods. Variables such as energy use and emissions were calculated by the means of life cycle assessment (LCA) based on self-reported behaviour and equipment use.

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“…The subsequent chapter considered the different lifestyles of individuals and their energy consumption in six different areas of social life (see also Schwarzinger, Bird, & Hadler, 2019a, Schwarzinger, Bird, & Skjølsvold, 2019b. The lifestyles of Travelers and Homers turned out to use the most energy of all groups.…”

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International Outlook and Conclusions

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The final chapter of this book summarizes the main insights from previous chapters and tests whether our approach is also applicable at an international level. Our international outlook shows that the five survey items, which capture more than three quarters of Austrian greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, also work well in other European countries. Similarly, the lifestyles identified in Chap. 10.1007/978-3-030-85796-7_6 are also present in other societies. Furthermore, this chapter shows that the prevalence of these lifestyles as well as the explanatory power of the models correlate with societal factors such as political institutions, affluence, environmental degradation, and socio-demographic characteristics. The final chapter closes with a brief consideration of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on environmental attitudes and individual willingness to make sacrifices for the environment.

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The “Paris Lifestyle”—Bridging the Gap Between Science and Communication by Analysing and Quantifying the Role of Target Groups for Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation: An Interdisciplinary Approach

Cited by 7 publications

References 15 publications

The Multidimensionality of Consumption: Energy Lifestyles

The Multidimensionality of Consumption: Energy Lifestyles

Identifying Consumer Lifestyles through Their Energy Impacts: Transforming Social Science Data into Policy-Relevant Group-Level Knowledge

International Outlook and Conclusions

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