Book Chapter Details
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Niall P. Dunphy, Breffní Lennon & Paola Velasco-Herrejón
2023 December
Living with Energy Poverty: Perspectives from the Global North and South
Towards a better understanding of energy poverty
Routledge
London
Published
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Energy poverty can manifest itself in households unable, for reasons of access and/or affordability, to source clean energy for necessities such as heat, light, cooling, cooking, and appliance use, or having to use an excessive portion of their disposable income to provide these essentials. Developing more effective responses to this social challenge necessitates a deeper appreciation of energy poverty and the different ways in which it manifests. While there has been some arguing for the importance of appreciating the lived experience of the energy poor, much of the literature on energy poverty has tended to be quantitative in nature. Work within the EnergyMeasures project identified a gap between the macro- and meso-level analysis of energy poverty and the identification of individual energy poor households. Energy poverty is fundamentally a human condition. The various definitions of energy poverty speak of people being unable to access or afford sufficient energy to meet their basic service needs.
P. Velasco-Herrejón, B. Lennon & N. P. Dunphy
https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003408536-27
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https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003408536-27
Grant Details
Horizon 2020
894759