Energy Poverty, Practice, and Policy

ISBN-13: 9783030994310 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 140 str.

Catherine Butler

Spis treści

Introduction.- Energy poverty, practice & (invisible energy) policy.- The empirical study: methods and approach.- The book’s structure.- References.- Poverty and Energy.- Introduction.- From fuel poverty to energy vulnerability and precarity.- Bringing transport poverty and mobilities into focus.- The capabilities approach in energy poverty research.- Advancing an approach to energy poverty.- Conclusions.- References.- Practice and Energy.- Introduction.- Practice theory in energy demand research.- Bringing inequality into practice theory: key concepts and interventions.- Practice theory and the emergence of invisible energy policy.- Conclusions.- References.- Policy: Energy Demand and Welfare in the UK.- Introduction.- From energy demand reduction to fuel poverty policy.- Energy poverty policy in focus.- Introducing welfare as invisible energy policy.- Interactions across energy and welfare policy.- Conclusions.- References.- Invisible Energy Policy and Energy Capabilities.- Introduction.- Living with energy poverty.- Living without energy.- Concluding discussion.- References.- Energy Poverty, Practice, and Inequality.- Introduction.- Exploring power in the constitution of need.- Constituting digital worlds.- Constituting mobilities.- Concluding discussion.- References.- Conclusions: Reconceptualising Energy Poverty and Practice.- Introduction.- Advancing energy capabilities.- Implications for invisible energy policy analysis.- The constitution of need in energy poverty.- Insights for policy and wider responses.- References

O autorze

Dr Catherine Butler is Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at University of Exeter. Her research centres around analysis of environmental governance processes with focus on the intersections between policy, politics, and everyday life. She has published extensively on topics including energy transitions in everyday life, behavioural change and social practice, wellbeing impacts of environmental change processes, and governance of climate adaptation. This book arises out of her four-year EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council) funded project. 

Blurb

“Catherine Butler’s new book is theoretically innovative, bringing much-needed insights on poverty and vulnerability into the study of Social Practices. It offers in-depth analysis of how “invisible energy policies” operate in the real world, revealing the important intersections between welfare policies and energy in everyday life. Amid the cost of living crisis, and the ever-more contested politics of social security, this book makes a hugely timely contribution, and will be a valuable resource for researchers, students, and all those concerned with understanding and promoting energy justice.”

—Sarah Royston, Anglia Ruskin University, UK

This Open Access book examines the implications of welfare policy for energy poverty and engages with key conceptual debates at the forefront of energy demand research. Academic work on energy poverty has rarely been brought into conversation with practice-theory-based approaches to energy use and sustainability. This book reveals how novel insights can be made visible through combining these different ways of thinking about energy demand issues. It presents a distinctive approach to energy poverty that places inequalities at the heart of debates about the advancing energy intensity of contemporary societies. 

Dr Catherine Butler is Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at University of Exeter. Her research centres around analysis of environmental governance processes with focus on the intersections between policy, politics, and everyday life. She has published extensively on topics including energy transitions in everyday life, behavioural change and social practice, wellbeing impacts of environmental change processes, and governance of climate adaptation. This book arises out of her four-year EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council) funded project.