The Study Of Family Low-carbon Lifestyle

Since industrial society, because the human depends on routine energy leading to excessive carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions, which triggered the greenhouse effect causing global warming. As the significant feature of the climate change problems, global warming is the most serious and most far-reaching challenge that the human currently faces.Under the background of the international cooperation in dealing with global climate changes and in response to the society construction of conserving resources and friendly environment, the research studies the low-carbon lifestyle of residents in D district using quantitative and qualitative research methods.This paper consists of six chapters. The first chapter is the introduction, which puts forward the research background of family low-carbon lifestyle and the specific problems, and describes the research methods briefly.The second chapter reviews the domestic and foreign researches relating to lifestyle. through combing the literatures, summing up the points, the author puts forward personal views and opinions, and make up corresponding assessments. The three chapters from the third to the fifth are the main parts of this thesis.In the third chapter, the author mainly starts from the nine indicators (gender, age, educational background, pattern of consumption, low-carbon habits, low-carbon awareness, low-carbon beliefs, low-carbon attitudes and low-carbon will), basing on questionnaire survey, uses SPSS statistical analysis methods (fundamental frequency analysis and chi-square test), gives general overviews of the status of family low-carbon lifesyle in D community. In general, the family low-carbon lifesyle in D community conforms to the standards of ’scientific, rational and reasonable’ on the whole, which is worth to advocate. In terms of daily life such as basic necessities, or in the repeates utilization, etc., the residents of the district show the principles of reasonable consumption and reuse which is moderate to the requirements of low-carbon life. In low-carbon attitudes and low-carbon will, they also demonstrate considerable recognition, support and positive attitude of voluntary action. The author also uses crossing analysis methods, analyses the differences in different genders, ages and educational backgrounds.Through to the researching and analysing toward individual familys and individuals of D area, the fourth chapter gives the features of the high-income and wealthy class’ lifestyle:wasing pattern, partial materials, heavy personal enjoyment, conspicuous pattern and the popularity of face consumption. Thus the researcher presents the difficulties and challenges of low-carbon life facing with, which is named:differently difficultiy of transformation of groups’ life; the discontent voices from the public because of the behavior of government not to low carbon and the views from some people that low-carbon concept is advancing and from reality.In the fifth chapter, the author puts forward the suggestions and countermeasures to guide people choose low-carbon life from government, industry, environmental orgnization, family and individual duties as well as building low-carbon culture. In the construction of low-carbon culture, the author draws lessons from Chinese traditional culture, mainly the core idea of ’harmony between humans and nature’.Bacing on the construction of ecological culture and learning from foreign successful experience of building low-carbon society, the author puts forward the connotation of low-carbon culture. Low-carbon culture embodies in the low-carbon values, low-carbon power, low-carbon awareness, low-carbon attitudes, low-carbon abilities and low-carbon behaviors. The author explorates the routes of building low-carbon culture from the theoretical research of low-carbon culture, the creation and innovation the concept of low-carbon culture, vigorously promoting and attaching to the education of low-carbon culture in order to provide spiritual impetus and intellectual support to develop low-carbon economy and build low-carbon society. The sixth chapter is the part of conclusion and discussion. The author puts forward clearly to the conclusions of the study:the powerful actors are middle-aged persons from the working-class of middle-income familiesand, who play leading role in family low-carbon life; the smallest low-carbon potential is the poor;relatively the larger low-carbon potential is high income group and rich class; the largest low-carbon potential is government; the young and the wealthy class who have leisure lead the low-carbon fashion. The author also raises the possible contribution and deficiency, and gives corresponding suggestions for follow-up study.