Energy Poverty and Vulnerability -

Energy Poverty and Vulnerability

A Global Perspective
Buch | Hardcover
264 Seiten
2017
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-29445-5 (ISBN)
168,35 inkl. MwSt
This book provides novel and critical perspectives on the drivers and consequences of energy-related injustices in the home, offering fresh and innovative insights into the ways in which hitherto unexplored factors such as cultural norms, environmental conditions and household needs combine to shape vulnerability to energy poverty.
Energy Poverty and Vulnerability provides novel and critical perspectives on the drivers and consequences of energy-related injustices in the home. Drawing together original research conducted by leading experts, the book offers fresh and innovative insights into the ways in which hitherto unexplored factors such as cultural norms, environmental conditions and household needs combine to shape vulnerability to energy poverty.

Chapters 1 and 15 of this book are freely available as downloadable Open Access PDFs at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Neil Simcock is a Research Associate at the University of Manchester, UK Harriet Thomson is a Research Associate at the University of Manchester, UK. Saska Petrova is a Lecturer in the School of Environment, Education and Development at the University of Manchester, UK Stefan Bouzarovski is Professor at the Department of Geography and Director of the Collaboratory for Urban Resilience and Energy at the University of Manchester, UK.

Introduction
Energy poverty in an intersectional perspective: On multiple deprivation, discriminatory systems and the effects of policies
Understanding energy poverty through the energy cultures framework
Transcending the triad: Political distrust, local cultural norms and reconceptualising the drivers of domestic energy poverty in the UK
Post-apartheid spatial inequalities and the built environment: drivers of energy vulnerability for the urban poor in South Africa
Water-energy nexus vulnerabilities in China: Infrastructures, policies, practices
Rethinking energy deprivation in Athens: a spatial approach
Location, location, location: What accounts for the regional variation of energy poverty in Poland?
Multiple vulnerabilities? Interrogating the spatial distribution of energy poverty measures in England
The triple-hit effect of disability and energy poverty: a qualitative case study of painful sickle cell disease and cold homes
The value of experience: including young people in energy poverty research
Energy poverty in the Western Balkans: adjusting policy responses to socio-economic drivers
Lighting up rural Kenya: Lessons learnt from rural electrification programmes
Urban Energy Poverty: South Africa’s policy response to the challenge
Conclusions

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Routledge Explorations in Energy Studies
Zusatzinfo 16 Tables, black and white; 17 Line drawings, black and white; 25 Halftones, black and white; 58 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Gewicht 453 g
Themenwelt Naturwissenschaften Biologie Ökologie / Naturschutz
Naturwissenschaften Geowissenschaften Geografie / Kartografie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Spezielle Soziologien
Technik Elektrotechnik / Energietechnik
Technik Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie
ISBN-10 1-138-29445-4 / 1138294454
ISBN-13 978-1-138-29445-5 / 9781138294455
Zustand Neuware
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