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Impacts of family household dynamics on residential energy demands in Hebei Province of China

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Zeng, Y; Yang, H; Wang, Z; Li, L
Published in: Genus
December 1, 2021

This article presents analyses and projections of the residential energy demands in Hebei Province of China, using the ProFamy extended cohort-component method and user-friendly free software and conventional demographic data as input. The results indicate that the future increase in residential energy demands will be dominated by large increase in small households with 1–2 persons. We found that increase of residential energy demands will be mainly driven by the rapid increase of older adults’ households. Comparisons between residential energy demand projections by household changes and by population changes demonstrate that projections by population changes seriously under-estimate the future residential energy demands. We recommend that China needs to adopt policies to encourage and facilitate older parents and adult children to live together or near-by, and support rural-to-urban family migration. Promoting inter-generation co-residence or living near-by between older parents and young adults would result in a mutually beneficial outcome for both older and younger generations as well as to effectively reduce energy demands. We suggest governments to carefully formulate strategies on efficient residential energy use to cope with the rapid households and population aging, and strengthen data collections/analyses on household residential energy demands for sound policy-making and sustainable development.

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Genus

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2035-5556

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0016-6987

Publication Date

December 1, 2021

Volume

77

Issue

1

Related Subject Headings

  • Demography
  • 4403 Demography
  • 4206 Public health
  • 1603 Demography
 

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Zeng, Y., Yang, H., Wang, Z., & Li, L. (2021). Impacts of family household dynamics on residential energy demands in Hebei Province of China. Genus, 77(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s41118-021-00148-0
Zeng, Y., H. Yang, Z. Wang, and L. Li. “Impacts of family household dynamics on residential energy demands in Hebei Province of China.” Genus 77, no. 1 (December 1, 2021). https://doi.org/10.1186/s41118-021-00148-0.
Zeng, Y., et al. “Impacts of family household dynamics on residential energy demands in Hebei Province of China.” Genus, vol. 77, no. 1, Dec. 2021. Scopus, doi:10.1186/s41118-021-00148-0.
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Published In

Genus

DOI

EISSN

2035-5556

ISSN

0016-6987

Publication Date

December 1, 2021

Volume

77

Issue

1

Related Subject Headings

  • Demography
  • 4403 Demography
  • 4206 Public health
  • 1603 Demography