Bringing attention to fuel poverty as a distinct manifestation of social inequality has asserted
the place of affordable warmth in the profile of contemporary rights and entitlements. As …

Karen Bickerstaff is senior lecturer in geography at Exeter University and leads the
department's Environment and Sustainability Research Group. Her research interests centre …

The recent polycrises of COVID-19, economic recession, and energy price increases have
reinforced the critical importance of energy services–such as heating, information and …

Energy efficiency obligations (or white certificates) are increasingly used to reduce carbon
emissions. While the energy efficiency obligations were originally intended as carbon …

This paper looks at Energy Savings Obligations in the UK. More specifically, it discusses
how the policy instrument changed over time and what the drivers of that change were. The …

Like many forms of deprivation, fuel (or energy) poverty has been shown to concentrate
spatially. However, there has been limited examination of its spatio-temporal dynamics …

Energy poverty is defined as the inability to afford to heat the home to an adequate
temperature at reasonable cost. Such a concept has gained political recognition in an …

At the outset of the twenty-first century, modern welfare states face major challenges.
Demographic change puts public pension and healthcare systems under pressure as the …

In the profile of current energy justice concerns, those focused on households' access to
sufficient and affordable energy are perhaps the most well established. In both developed …

One central aim of climate change mitigation in the European Union is to reduce energy
consumption in the housing sector. In order to ensure effectiveness of policies targeting …