- Title
- Towards a relational understanding of youth lifestyles and wellbeing in climate resilient urban development insights from a seven-city study of young people
- Creator
- Prendergast, Kate, Hayward, Bronwyn, Aoyagi, Midori, Burningham, Kate, Hasan, M Mehedi, Jackson, Tim, Jha, Vimlendu, Loukianov, Anastasia, Mattar, Helio, Schudel, Ingrid J, Yoshida, Aya
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 2025
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/482593
- Identifier
- vital:78669
- Identifier
- https://doi.org/10.1080/13549839.2025.2454985
- Description
- Supporting youth wellbeing in low carbon ways is a crucial challenge in cities. Seventy percent of youth will live in urban areas by 2050 and urban sites account for 67–72% of the global share of carbon emissions. Young people’s consumption behaviour including energy use is increasingly identified as a key driver of urban emissions. This paper expands beyond dominant individualised approaches to examining urban youth wellbeing and consumption to interrogate the relational contexts in which young people live, their wellbeing aspirations, and the conditions that enable or lock-in lifestyle emissions. Applying a relational lens and thematic analysis to focus group data collected from 332 youth aged 12–24 years in seven cities of the global South and North, the paper examines experiences shaping youth wellbeing in the context of urban consumption activities. Findings emphasised the complexities of “linked lives”, foregrounding family, peer and community relationships as critical in shaping youth wellbeing and consumption.
- Format
- 18 pages, pdf
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Local Environment, Prendergast, K. et al. (2025) ‘Towards a relational understanding of youth lifestyles and wellbeing in climate resilient urban development: insights from a seven-city study of young people’, Local Environment, pp. 1–18. doi: 10.1080/13549839.2025.2454985, Local Environment volume number 1 18 2025 1469-6711
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Schudel, Ingrid Joan(Assoc Prof)
RU DST/NRF SARChI for Global Change Social Learning Systems Development: Transformative Learning and Green Skills Learning (ELRC)
RU Department of Education
SDG 04. Quality Education
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