
Urban Fuel Poverty
Description
Key Features
- Bridges interdisciplinary divides between policy and economy, cities and buildings, and health and society
- Addresses the physical performance of urban fuel poverty and their effect on thermal comfort and human health
- Provides strategies and policies to mitigate energy and fuel poverty
Readership
Social scientists exploring problems in describing, analyzing and reducing energy poverty. Policymakers looking to reduce energy poverty. Practitioners in energy efficiency and (perhaps via ESCOs or NGOS) poverty reduction. Urban planners, architect, engineers. Environmental Psychologists
Table of Contents
Foreword
Kristian FabbriPART I - WHAT IS ENERGY FUEL POVERTY
1. Energy Poverty a definition
Victoria Pellicer-Sifres
2. Role of economy and income to fall in energy poverty. Policy act
Fateh Belaïd
3. Role of climate and city pattern
Teodoro Georgiadis
4. Role of building to fall in fuel poverty
Kristian Fabbri
5. Health impact of fuel poverty
Vincenzo Condemi and Massimo GestroPART II - HOW TO MEASURE FUEL POVERTY
6. Energy poverty indicators: energy price, income and statistics
Ivan Faiella and Luciano Lavecchia
7. Social and health-related indicators of energy poverty: An England case study
Jamie-Leigh Ruse, Helen Stockton and Peter SmithPART III - HOW TO ACT TO TACKLE IT
8. Policy action
Jiří Karásek and Jan Pojar
9. Cities and buildings efficiency improvement of energy-poor household
Jacopo Gaspari
10. Health and social outcomes of housing policies to alleviate fuel poverty
Wouter Poortinga
Product details
- No. of pages: 288
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2019
- Published: July 3, 2019
- Imprint: Academic Press
- eBook ISBN: 9780128169537
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128169520