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The Relationship between Human Well-Being and Carbon Emissions
| Content Provider | MDPI |
|---|---|
| Author | Li, Qin Chen, Hongmin |
| Copyright Year | 2021 |
| Description | Governments around the world are actively exploring strategies to reduce carbon emissions and mitigate and adapt to the impacts of climate change. In addition to technological progress, promoting a transformation of residents’ behaviors to a low carbon mode is also a solution. Many people are concerned about how to reduce carbon emissions while ensuring human well-being. Starting from the comparative analysis of two main theories of human well-being, this paper sorted out existing well-being measurement methods from the perspectives of “top-down” and “bottom-up” and further sorted out research on the relationship between human well-being and energy carbon emissions. While “top-down” research is conducive to the layout of macro policies, “bottom-up” research can better help to promote the transformation of society to a low carbon life by estimating the energy consumption and carbon emissions contained in human needs. Current research discusses human well-being, human needs, energy use and carbon emissions, respectively, but they are not systematically integrated. Furthermore, this paper proposes a framework combining these aspects to analyze the relationship between human well-being and carbon emissions. In addition, this paper suggests future research directions. |
| Starting Page | 547 |
| e-ISSN | 20711050 |
| DOI | 10.3390/su13020547 |
| Journal | Sustainability |
| Issue Number | 2 |
| Volume Number | 13 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | MDPI |
| Publisher Date | 2021-01-08 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Sustainability Environmental Studies Carbon Emission Energy Use Human Needs Human Well-being Sustainable Development |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
