Domestic environments, urban air and climate change

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ID3864563
AuthorsAwadhendra Sharan (corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume55
Issue3
Pages373-391
Publication date2021-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueContributions to Indian Sociology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0069-9659 • E-ISSN: 0069-9667
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/00699667211057880
OpenAlexW4214915820
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited29

Climate change and the pandemic, each in its own way, has powerfully drawn our attention to the imbrication of human lives with non-humans. In this article, I attempt to address these linkages through a focus on energy use and environment in Indian cities, especially in domestic settings. The introduction section of the article presents its background. The second section discusses weather and the colonial science of climatology in thinking about ventilation and thermal comfort, and ends with an account of air conditioning in Indian cities. The third section offers a history of efforts at mitigating indoor air pollution through a transition in energy use from biomass to the use of gas and electricity. In conclusion, I draw attention to the translation that is involved in thinking about energy, urbanism and climate change historically and in the contemporary period

Climate change · Geography · Meteorology · Political science · Thermal comfort · Urbanism · Architecture · Ecology · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Urban Agriculture and Sustainability · Water Governance and Infrastructure

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