Volume 9, Issue 26, January - December, 2023

Carbon footprint analysis of rural households with respect to fuel and energy consumption in village Chak Chua of district Jammu, J & K

Shahima Akhter¹, Piyush Malaviya^2♦

¹Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, St. Martin’s Engg. College, Dhulapally, Secunderabad, 500014, India
²Ex-Chief Scientist, NGRI, Hyderabad, India

^♦Corresponding author
Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, St. Martin’s Engineering. College, Dhulapally, Secunderabad, 500014, India

ABSTRACT

The household is a basic micro unit of the nation which can play an important role in protecting environment by curbing the emission of carbon footprints. The present study was carried out to analyze the carbon footprints of rural households with respect to fuel and energy consumption at household level in village Chak Chua of Jammu district, J&K. The study comprised of 85 households and data was collected by using a pre structured questionnaire and personal interviewing the members of the households. We also take in to account the socioeconomic status and lifestyle along with fuel and energy consumption pattern of households. Major fuel and energy source fulfilling the demand of local people in study area are petrol, diesel, kerosene, LPG, wood and electricity. Petrol and electricity constituted the major share of consumption which is 30 liter/month/house and 145kwh/house/month, respectively. Results of this study showed that the total carbon foot print among the households of study area is 0.6618 kgCO2e/capita/month. The major share in carbon foot print is observed for petrol which is 27.8 % and lowest for wood i.e., 0.1% of total carbon footprint. The findings of the present research would assist the households to become aware about their activities that contribute carbon dioxide necessitating needed changes in their lifestyle in protecting the mother earth.

Keywords: carbon footprint, rural household, fuel, energy

Climate Change, 2023, 9(26), e2cc1004

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.54905/disssi.v9i26.e2cc1004

Published: 25 September 2023