An Energy Analysis of Household Consumption (2007) Changing Patterns of Direct and Indirect Use in India Shonali Pachauri ISBN: 978-1-4020-4031-7 (hardcover)

With energy consumption set to become one of the biggest issues in the daily lives of householders around the world, this book could not be more relevant – despite the fact that it focuses on India.

Pachauri adopts a socio-economic approach to analyzing the energy system and energy consumption in India from a household perspective.

In addition, the work incorporates two crucial aspects often ignored by many traditional modeling approaches that are characteristic of most developing countries, namely the importance of non-commercial sources of energy, mostly biofuels, and the very large diversity in the patterns of energy use in households with widely diverging lifestyles and well-being.

Adopting a household perspective allows for analyzing how energy use and consumption patterns are linked with the quality of life of individual households or persons and provides a novel view of the energy system and development in India.

The works makes a first significant step in identifying key driving forces and trends in economic, technical, demographic, and lifestyles factors that heve had an impact on energy use patterns in India over the last couple of decades. The results should be of interest to inform academics, researchers, policy makers and practitioners as well as those interested in energy analysis and development policy.

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