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E-book Energy Poverty, Practice, and Policy
Energy poverty refers to issues that span access to energy, energy depri-vation, and its under-use within daily life. Broadly, the central concern ofresearch and policy in this space is with the negative outcomes that a lackof energy use has for wellbeing. Within the UK and many other globalcontexts, the focus has often been on those that cannot afford to heattheir homes, with solutions posed as ones principally involving buildingefficiency and to a lesser extent affordability. Within the academic liter-ature, however, there has been increasing recognition of the complexand multifaceted set of issues involved in both creating and addressingproblems of energy poverty. This body of work has made key conceptualinterventions that put forward important arguments about how energypoverty can, or even should be, understood. These concern centrally ashift beyond a focus on heat, efficiency, and affordability to take in amuch wider range of issues, dimensions, and dynamics that are importantin shaping energy poverty.
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