Energy Poverty and Vulnerability (eBook, ePUB)

A Global Perspective
Redaktion: Simcock, Neil; Bouzarovski, Stefan; Petrova, Saska; Thomson, Harriet

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. September 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351865289
• Artikelnr.: 49261656

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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