Living with Energy Poverty: Perspectives from the Global North and South

Living with Energy Poverty: Perspectives from the Global North and South explores energy poverty through the experiences of households in the Global North and South, providing insights into the causes, impacts, and solutions to this complex problem.

Format: Hardback
Length: 288 pages
Publication date: 01 December 2023
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Living with Energy Poverty: Perspectives from the Global North and South is a groundbreaking work that delves into the complex and multifaceted issue of energy poverty, expanding our collective understanding and deepening our recognition of this phenomenon. By engaging with the lived experiences of energy-poor households across different contexts, the book offers a unique perspective on the issue, challenging traditional notions and providing a more nuanced understanding of the challenges faced by these households.

Understanding the lived experience of energy poverty is crucial in designing effective solutions to alleviate this deep-rooted, multi-faceted, and wickedly complex problem. This requires a nuanced understanding of the causal factors and research methods that can capture the flexible spatial and temporal nature of energy poverty, as well as its wellbeing and justice implications. Drawing together the expertise and connections of authors from the Global South and North, this book presents novel approaches to understanding the often hidden forms of domestic energy deprivation.

Through comprehensive case studies from 20 countries, the book provides critical perspectives on energy poverty, analyzing the policy practices, government strategies, and sustainability implications of divergent manifestations. The book adopts 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. This facilitates a valuable dialogue on the nature of energy poverty and highlights the need for a people-centered, just energy transition.

This book is a timely resource 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-centered, just energy transition can present. Chapter 1 of the book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Deriva.

Dimension: 246 x 174 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032528182