Abstrakt
The main objective of this book is to examine residential consumption of selected commodities and services that have significant environmental effects, in the Czech Republic. The secondary goals of this book are basically threefold.
First, this book aims to point to the environmental effects of specific residential consumption behaviours. Second, it aims to show how this consumption is distributed within the Czech population in terms of socio-economic and demographic lines.
Finally, this book also provides some examples of various policy measures and intervention tools that can be applied to consumption behaviours. This book is sub-divided into seven chapters.
The first two chapters introduce the reader to the analysis of environmental effects of consumption behaviour and to the analysis of distribution of consumption behaviour in society. The remaining five chapters deal with selected examples of consumption behaviour, including energy and transportation demand, energy-saving curtailments and energy-efficiency investments, personal car ownership, and also organic food consumption.
The chapters, specifically those that address selected examples of consumption behaviour, are based on a review of Czech and international literature, and our own analysis of data collected by the authors and also the statistical data that are publicly available.