These changes were consistent with a shift to consumption-intensive marriages despite very modest changes in women's market work across these cohorts.
Far from implying a necessary reduction in wellbeing, some research suggests this could actually improve it: as reduced expenditure means a reduced need for income, and hence paid work, then there is the possibility for average working hours to fall, providing increased leisure time in which to pursue happiness through less consumption-intensive, but more time consuming, ways.
Thus, as household income increases, lifestyles likely shift to less GHG-intensive consumption, but more intensive on the use of metal resources.
This has diverted vast quantities of grain from human to animal consumption, requiring intensive use of fertilisers, pesticides and herbicides and, according to the Unep report, "caused a web of water and air pollution that is damaging human health".
Energy consumption of intensive farms was 19.1 GJ ha−1 and 2.7 GJ t−1 milk, of extensified and organic farms 8.7 and 5.9 GJ ha−1 along with 1.3 and 1.2 GJ t−1 milk, respectively.
The investigators found that the age of first alcohol use and of intensive alcohol consumption mediated the association between these polymorphisms and early alcohol abuse and dependence.
Several studies have identified methods of changing dietary fat consumption in small, intensive intervention settings.
At the same time, we used solar resource, abundant in the Almería region, in an efficient way, making CIESOL building consumption less energy intensive and ensuring environmental protection.
The dependence of cities on intensive consumption of energy from fossil fuels is a major cause of climate disruption, and there is increasing interest in the potential for city governments to facilitate a transition to sustainable energy.
In general, our results suggest that Ladle Furnace slag can be used as a raw material in the manufacture of Portland cement to reduce the intensive consumption of natural raw materials, energy and CO2 emissions by the cement industry.
