Descripción del proyecto
Tendencias y efectos de vivir solo
Las condiciones de la vida humana están mejorando gracias al desarrollo económico, pero el consumo creciente plantea retos para el medio ambiente. Muchos expertos esperaban que, si se reducía la fertilidad, se alcanzaría la sostenibilidad. Sin embargo, los niveles de consumo no han caído entre las poblaciones más decrecientes de los países en desarrollo y desarrollados. Una razón por la que esto sucede es que, al haber más personas que viven solas, el número de hogares no se reduce. En la Unión Europea los hogares unipersonales representan un tercio de la población total. El proyecto LACONIA, financiado con fondos europeos, investigará la tendencia al alza de vivir solo explorando los motivos para hacerlo, las pautas variables, la influencia sobre el consumo y configuraciones alternativas de vivienda sostenible. El proyecto aportará información valiosa y necesaria para la sostenibilidad y para una nueva planificación urbanística.
Objetivo
Human population has wide ranging and often negative consequences for the natural environment. Population stability and decreasing fertility have thus been heralded as promising for sustainability. However, household size has been decreasing steadily in both developed and developing countries, at an accelerating pace, since the 1980s. The European Union (EU) leads this trend, with nearly a third of total households consisting of single residents. As a result of more people living alone with associated higher consumption, slowing population growth has resulted in neither fewer residences nor decelerating human impact on the environment. This MC-IF aims to investigate the trend toward living alone and create new knowledge about environmental impacts of different household configurations, drivers for different occupancy trends and alternative sustainable housing configurations. The research will be carried out in three phases, firstly by using existing population, housing and consumption databases; secondly be interviewing both high and low impact single resident households and finally by studying low impact household configurations in-depth. This will provide new knowledge on: how different household configurations impact sustainability; why people choose to live in different various configurations; and drivers and barriers for emerging sustainable alternatives. This knowledge will be valuable for policy makers planning sustainable urban environments. During period of training the ER will: Acquire specialised knowledge on sociology of consumption; deepen her mixed methods analysis; improve her multicultural and team communications skills; have policy impact; and publish scientific articles in international journals. Thus the MSCA-IF will allow her to consolidate her academic profile in order to enter the EU academic job market in a tenure-track position.
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