articleEnergy Research & Social ScienceJul 9, 2015HYBRID OA

A global perspective on domestic energy deprivation: Overcoming the energy poverty–fuel poverty binary

University of Manchester

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Abstract

This paper offers an integrated conceptual framework for the research and amelioration of energy deprivation in the home. It starts from the premise that all forms of energy and fuel poverty – in developed and developing countries alike – are underpinned by a common condition: the inability to attain a socially and materially necessitated level of domestic energy services. We consider the functionings provided by energy demand in the residential domain in order to advance two claims: first, that domestic energy deprivation in its different guises and forms is fundamentally tied to the ineffective operation of the socio-technical pathways that allow for the fulfilment of household energy needs, and as such…

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Keywords
  • Energy poverty
  • Poverty
  • Premise
  • Vulnerability (computing)
  • Fuel poverty
  • Energy (signal processing)
  • Energy security
  • Forms of energy
UN Sustainable Development Goals
  • No poverty
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