30 JULY 2010 VOL 329 SCIENCE www.sciencemag.org Sustainability: A Household Word I THANK Q. WANG AND G. P. PETERS ET AL. (“China’s environmental civilian activism” and “Effects of China’s economic growth,” Letters, 14 May, p. 824) for responding to my Policy Forum, “China’s road to sustainability” (2 April, p. 50). Their Letters reiterated important forces affecting sustainability, which I have...

It is important to understand and forecast a typical or a particularly household daily consumption in order to design and size suitable renewable energy systems and energy storage. In this research for Short Term Load Forecasting (STLF) it has been used Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) and, despite the consumption unpredictability, it has been shown the possibility to forecast the electricity c...

AIMS Parental attitudes and behaviour with regard to young people and alcohol are associated with teenagers' drinking behaviour. This study examined the association between sociodemographic factors among parents and parental attitudes and behaviour with regard to alcohol and adolescents. METHODS Postal questionnaires were sent to parents of children aged 12-16 years in six Swedish municipalit...

This paper examines the determinants of sexual behaviour with special reference to the effect of household socio-economic status as a proxy for poverty. The data are derived from the Nigeria Demographic and Health Survey; the analysis is restricted to 1,831 never married females age 1524. Both descriptive and analytical methods are used to assess the effects of each poverty-related factor when ...

This paper estimates a demand system of food commodities based on the Vietnamese household survey data. When estimating consumer behaviour for developing economies, one of the problems that researchers often come across is the unavailability of price data. A common practice has been to use unit values, ratios of expenditures to quantities purchased, as proxies for market prices. However, Deaton...

The electricity market in the UK is undergoing dramatic changes and requires a transformation of existing practices to meet the current and forthcoming challenges. One aspect of the solution is the deployment of demand side management (DSM) programmes to influence domestic behaviour patterns for the benefit of the overall network. Effective deployment of DSM requires segmentation of the populat...

The aim of this paper was to compare self-reported household pesticide use or non-use in a questionnaire with reported household pesticide use from an in-depth interview, in order to elucidate any differences, and to study any differential reporting of pesticides. In the in-depth interview we asked for pesticide use, behaviour adopted while using pesticides and risk perceptions as possible fact...

In this paper a dynamic household model in connection with a comprehensive urban housing market model for Amsterdam is presented. Household dynamics is modelled here by using the methodology of multidimensional demography. A consistent analysis of the components of a dynamic spatial housing market system incorporating various submodules, multiple factors, spatial aggregation levels, and degrees...

Intelligent technologies are increasingly facilitating sustainable water management strategies in Australia. While this innovation can present clear cost benefits to utilities through immediate leak detection and deference of capital costs, the impact of this technology on households is less distinct. By offering real-time engagement and detailed end-use consumption breakdowns, there is signifi...