WIT Press


Regional Evaluation Of The Positive Feedback Between Climate Change And Energy Consumption

Price

Free (open access)

Volume

29

Pages

8

Published

1998

Size

759 kb

Paper DOI

10.2495/ENVMAN980031

Copyright

WIT Press

Author(s)

J. Jorge, A. Closas & C. Comejo

Abstract

It is assumed that climate change induced by anthropogenic actions will manage to a new kind of human behaviour. In particular, since the economy is sensitive to climatic variations, including leisure activities like tourism, health and energy consumption, some aspects of the "possible" climate change will be able to cause a positive feedback from an economic point of view. An example of this feedback is located in heating consumption for domestic and industrial sectors. The modifications in the heating practice will be a reality. In the winter season, corresponding to local climate, households and industries consume more or less natural resources in function of air temperature. Hence, considering one of the standard scenarios of global change, we find more than 50% of reduction in vapor co

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