Environmental Engineering Reference
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However, it takes many behavioral alterations to change the scope of lifestyle
or to incur new ones. For example, carpooling with neighbors to travel to work
does not represent a change of lifestyle or in the way one values automobiles, but
it could eventually lead to such changes.
If one looks specifically at energy consumption related to lifestyle changes,
one can perceive that in the OECD countries, between 1975 and 2008, important
changes occurred in the final uses of energy (see
Table 13.1
).
The amount of energy used by industry, which represented 32% of consumption
in 1975, was reduced to 23% by 2008. This decline was made up, however, during
the same period by the transportation sector, by which energy consumption in-
creased from 26% to 33%. Such shifts in energy consumptions are reflected in life-
styles of the more affluent part of the world population.
Table 13.1 OECD final energy consumption shares (%)
Table 13.2 Non-OECD final energy consumption shares (%)
In non-OECD countries transportation has a smaller role, but the residential sec-
tor has greater importance (see
Table 13.2
).
