Fixing Fuel Poverty

Author : Brenda Boardman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781136545733

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Since its publication in the early 90s, Brenda Boardman's Fuel Poverty has been the reference text for those wishing to learn about this complex subject. In this, its successor, she turns a critical eye to the new millennium and finds that the situation, while now more widely recognised, is far from having improved. The book begins by discussing the political awakening to the issue and exploring just who constitutes the fuel poor. It examines the factors that contribute to fuel poverty - low incomes, high fuel prices and poor quality housing - and looks at and evaluates the policies that have been employed to help reduce the problem. The latter part presents a detailed set of proposals based around long-term improvements in the housing stock that must be employed if we are to avoid a dire situation continuing to get worse. Based on detailed analysis of the situation in the UK, the growth of fuel poverty (sometimes called energy poverty) in other countries and the new focus in European policy makes the book timely and provides important lessons for those who now have to produce policies to tackle the issues.

Author : Brenda Boardman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781136545726

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Fixing Fuel Poverty by Brenda Boardman Pdf

Since its publication in the early 90s, Brenda Boardman's Fuel Poverty has been the reference text for those wishing to learn about this complex subject. In this, its successor, she turns a critical eye to the new millennium and finds that the situation, while now more widely recognised, is far from having improved. The book begins by discussing the political awakening to the issue and exploring just who constitutes the fuel poor. It examines the factors that contribute to fuel poverty - low incomes, high fuel prices and poor quality housing - and looks at and evaluates the policies that have been employed to help reduce the problem. The latter part presents a detailed set of proposals based around long-term improvements in the housing stock that must be employed if we are to avoid a dire situation continuing to get worse. Based on detailed analysis of the situation in the UK, the growth of fuel poverty (sometimes called energy poverty) in other countries and the new focus in European policy makes the book timely and provides important lessons for those who now have to produce policies to tackle the issues.

Author : Kristian Fabbri
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780128169537

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Urban Fuel Poverty by Kristian Fabbri Pdf

Urban Fuel Poverty describes key approaches to defining and alleviating fuel poverty in cities using a multidisciplinary perspective and multiple case studies. It provides empirical knowledge on the levels and intensities of energy poverty in urban areas, along with new theoretical perspectives in conceptualizing the multidimensionality of energy poverty, with special focus given to the urban environment. Chapters discuss what energy poverty is in terms of taxonomy, stakeholders and affected parties, addressing the role of the economy and energy bills, the role of climate and city factors, the role of buildings, and the health and psychological impact on fuel poverty. The book addresses how to measure energy poverty, how to map it, and how to draw conclusions based on illness and social indicators. Finally, it explores measures to ‘fight’ fuel poverty, including policy and governance actions, building efficiency improvements and city planning. Bridges interdisciplinary divides between policy and economy, cities and buildings, and health and society Addresses the physical performance of urban fuel poverty and their effect on thermal comfort and human health Provides strategies and policies to mitigate energy and fuel poverty

Author : Carlos Rubio-Bellido,Jaime Solis-Guzman
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783030910846

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Energy Poverty Alleviation by Carlos Rubio-Bellido,Jaime Solis-Guzman Pdf

This book presents research on energy poverty alleviation, approaching the complex phenomenon topic holistically and with heterogeneity. It includes contributions from research teams studying the topic at a national, regional and local levels worldwide. The book is divided in two main blocks. The first part, New Approaches, involves novel assessments and concepts from a global and multidisciplinary point of view. The second part, Contexts, offers new theoretical diagnoses focused on case studies of different scales from around the world, and concepts for future trends. Energy Poverty Alleviation will be of interest to policy makers, stakeholders, academics and researchers with knowledge in the energy poverty field.

Author : Paola Velasco Herrejón,Breffní Lennon,Niall P. Dunphy
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781003805663

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Living with Energy Poverty by Paola Velasco Herrejón,Breffní Lennon,Niall P. Dunphy Pdf

Living with Energy Poverty: Perspectives from the Global North and South expands our collective understanding of energy poverty and deepens our recognition of the phenomenon by engaging with the lived experiences of energy-poor households across different contexts. Understanding the lived experience of energy poverty is an essential component in the design of any effort to alleviate what is fundamentally a deep-rooted, multi-faceted, wickedly complex problem. This requires a nuanced understanding of the causal factors and the research methods that can respond to the flexible spatial and temporal nature of the condition, as well as its wellbeing and justice implications. Drawing together the expertise and connectedness of authors from the Global South and North, this book presents novel approaches to understanding the often hidden forms of domestic energy deprivation. Case studies from 20 countries provide critical perspectives on this phenomenon while analysing the policy practices, government strategy, and sustainability implications of divergent manifestations. The book takes a multidimensional perspective, challenging the bias towards energy production and service provision, which often do not align with the aspirations and realities of energy households across global contexts, thus facilitating a useful dialogue on the nature of energy poverty. The book is a timely source for policymakers, practitioners, and scholars seeking fresh, diverse insights into the everyday reality of energy poverty and wanting to better understand the challenges a people-centred, just energy transition can present. Chapter 1 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license. Chapter 2 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license. Chapter 22 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.

Author : Brenda Boardman
Publisher : Belhaven
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Poor
ISBN : UOM:39015019406134

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Fuel Poverty by Brenda Boardman Pdf

Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Energy and Climate Change Committee
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0215553926

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Fuel Poverty by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Energy and Climate Change Committee Pdf

Fuel Poverty : Fifth report of session 2009-10, Vol. 2: Oral and written Evidence

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 3870 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780080471716

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International Encyclopedia of Housing and Home by Anonim Pdf

Available online via SciVerse ScienceDirect, or in print for a limited time only, The International Encyclopedia of Housing and Home, Seven Volume Set is the first international reference work for housing scholars and professionals, that uses studies in economics and finance, psychology, social policy, sociology, anthropology, geography, architecture, law, and other disciplines to create an international portrait of housing in all its facets: from meanings of home at the microscale, to impacts on macro-economy. This comprehensive work is edited by distinguished housing expert Susan J. Smith, together with Marja Elsinga, Ong Seow Eng, Lorna Fox O'Mahony and Susan Wachter, and a multi-disciplinary editorial team of 20 world-class scholars in all. Working at the cutting edge of their subject, liaising with an expert editorial advisory board, and engaging with policy-makers and professionals, the editors have worked for almost five years to secure the quality, reach, relevance and coherence of this work. A broad and inclusive table of contents signals (or tesitifes to) detailed investigation of historical and theoretical material as well as in-depth analysis of current issues. This seven-volume set contains over 500 entries, listed alphabetically, but grouped into seven thematic sections including methods and approaches; economics and finance; environments; home and homelessness; institutions; policy; and welfare and well-being. Housing professionals, both academics and practitioners, will find The International Encyclopedia of Housing and Home useful for teaching, discovery, and research needs. International in scope, engaging with trends in every world region The editorial board and contributors are drawn from a wide constituency, collating expertise from academics, policy makers, professionals and practitioners, and from every key center for housing research Every entry stands alone on its merits and is accessed alphabetically, yet each is fully cross-referenced, and attached to one of seven thematic categories whose ‘wholes' far exceed the sum of their parts

Author : Barry D. Solomon,Kirby E. Calvert
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781785365621

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Handbook on the Geographies of Energy by Barry D. Solomon,Kirby E. Calvert Pdf

This extensive Handbook captures a range of expertise and perspectives on the changing geographies and landscapes of energy production, distribution, and use. Combining established and emerging scholarship from across disciplines, the expert contributions provide a broad overview of research frontiers for the changing geographies of energy worldwide. Interdisciplinary in nature and broad in scope, it serves to answer a range of questions and provide the reader with conceptual and methodological foundations.

Author : Boardman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1991-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 047194484X

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Fuel Poverty by Boardman Pdf

Fuel poverty, the inability to obtain sufficient energy to keep warm in the home, has now become a problem in the UK. In other countries (especially in the United States and Scandinavia), the infrastructure is based around the assumption that warmth in the home is an essential need, and this has been reflected in policy and design.

Author : Helen Carr,Brendan Edgeworth,Caroline Hunter
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-17
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781509914586

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Law and the Precarious Home by Helen Carr,Brendan Edgeworth,Caroline Hunter Pdf

This book explores the emergent and internationally widespread phenomenon of precariousness, specifically in relation to the home. It maps the complex reality of the insecure home by examining the many ways in which precariousness is manifested in legal and social change across a number of otherwise very different jurisdictions. By applying innovative work done by socio-legal scholars in other fields such as labour law and welfare law to the home, Law and the Precarious Home offers a broader theoretical understanding of contemporary 'precarisation' of law and society. It will enable reflections upon differential experience of home dependent upon class, race and gender from a range of local, national and cross-national perspectives. Finally it will explore the pluralisation of ideas of home in subjective experience, social reality and legal form. The answers offered in this book reflect the expertise and standing of the assembled authors who are international leaders in their field, with decades of first-hand practical and intellectual engagement with the area.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1274613034

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Fuel Poverty by Anonim Pdf

Author : Great Britain: Department of Energy and Climate Change
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0101844026

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Fuel Poverty by Great Britain: Department of Energy and Climate Change Pdf

Professor John Hills' report on fuel poverty (March 2012, DECC) found that the problem of fuel poverty was being measured in the wrong way. Proper measurement is integral in designing effective polices to counter fuel poverty. This consultation looks at changing the approach to measurement (currently based on whether a household would need to spend more than 10% of its income on energy to keep warm). Section 1 sets out the background to the Hills Review and summarises its main findings. Section 2 focuses on the proposal for a new definition (the Low Income High Costs indicator) and also covers the recommended changes to the methodology used to calculate the fuel poverty statistics. The proposed changes raises questions about how a new definition fits with t he current target, which is set out in the Warm Homes and Energy Conservation Act 2000. Section 3 of this paper considers whether the definition and target should be aligned and how to achieve that. Finally, section 4 considers next steps. The Government intends to publish a refreshed fuel poverty strategy early in 2013 incorporating the new definition.

Author : Energy Action Group (Vic.),Victorian Council of Social Service,Lyn Deasey,Kerry Montero
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1983-01-01
Category : Cost and standard of living
ISBN : 0959260307

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Fuel Poverty in Victoria by Energy Action Group (Vic.),Victorian Council of Social Service,Lyn Deasey,Kerry Montero Pdf

Author : Claire Summer,Jack Hulme,Busola Siyanbola
Publisher : Bre Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1848064411

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Measuring Fuel Poverty by Claire Summer,Jack Hulme,Busola Siyanbola Pdf

BRE has measured fuel poverty on behalf of the UK government since the 1990s. This publication discusses current and historical definitions of fuel poverty and shows how fuel poverty has been measured at national and local levels. It is aimed at housing associations, energy suppliers, policymakers, energy consultants and academics.