Energy justice, unequal access to affordable warmth, and capability deprivation: A quantitative analysis for Belgium

Bartiaux, Françoise; Vandeschrick, Christophe; Moezzi, Mithra; Frogneux, Nathalie

doi:10.1016/j.apenergy.2018.04.113

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“…More recent scholarship in environment [52,53], energy [54,55] and climate justice [56,57] The set of papers demonstrates the unwavering commitment of justice scholarship to quantitative (social) research design and application. We find a range of large and small scale survey-based approaches designed to explore the effectiveness of planning processes [58], social acceptability and transactions costs [59] or a comprehensive analysis of energy user experiences [60]. There are also more radical alternative quantitative assessments that examine the full costs associated with renewable and non-renewable energy sources [48,61].…”

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“…Distributional justice stresses that potential or actual economic efficiency (via cost-benefit analysis) should not be a necessary or sufficient condition to justify energy policy or energy projects. Several papers [45,48,60,62,63] underline that greater quantitative treatment must be given to co-benefits or side-effects of low-carbon energy systems.…”

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“…Altogether these results indicate that households tend to consider normal and acceptable to feel thermal discomfort at home, but also show signs of an emerging trend towards aspiring more thermal comfort at home. This brings into question what are the energy "needs" of households, as discussed by Bartiaux et al (2018). In fact, as shown by Wilhite and colleagues (1996), the "need" for space heating and cooling is socially constructed, being deeply rooted in its cultural significance.…”

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Energy poverty in Portugal: Combining vulnerability mapping with household interviews

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Gouveia

Schmidt

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Energy and Buildings

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“…The current energy governance regimes in the Global South are based on top-down institutional narratives focussed on accessing modern energy and arbitrary rates of minimum consumption that do not necessarily always translate into improved well-being effects (Munro & Schiffer, 2019;Samarakoon, 2019). Distributive energy justice provides a conceptual platform to integrate the spatial, temporal and social dimension of energy to maximise welfare benefits from energy services in poverty (Bartiaux, Vandeschrick, Moezzi, & Frogneux, 2018;Bouzarovski & Simcock, 2017;Sovacool & Dworkin, 2014). We believe it can be a useful tool in wielding poverty alleviation policies by appropriating the needed humanscale energy services in the poorest section of society.…”

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Energy justice, built environment and poverty: A deep-narrative analysis of energy cultures in Brazil, India and Nigeria for policy modelling

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Bardhan²,

Darby³

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Distributive energy justice as a policy instrument is crucial to meet UN-SDG 7 targets at the poorest section of rapidly urbanising Global South. This study mobilised this policy instrument to derive poverty alleviation focal points across slum rehabilitation housing in Brazil, India and Nigeria. It emphasises on the social dimensions of energy services which currently remains a literature gap. The core methodological innovation lies in the nested deep narrative analysis approach using topic modelling and grounded theory, developed in Debnath et. al. (2020). This paper presents the application of this methodology through the analysis of energy culture and built environment in poverty. Narratives of poverty and energy services were collected through focus group discussions that served as the primary data object. Topic modelling was performed to remove directionality biases in the narratives using a Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA)-based algorithm, which was then strengthen using grounded theory. Cross-validation of the topic models was performed using science-mapping of state-of-the-art literature in ‘energy justice’ and ‘poverty’ with an LDA-tuning algorithm. Results converged around seven key topics that probabilistically highlighted the grounded reality of complex interactions between poverty, built environment and human-scale energy services. The derived policy-focal points illustrated that built environment design, land use planning and governance are crucial to the success of SDG-7 in poverty. It showed how utilities and distribution companies can strengthen their energy governance to support social policies and improve the quality and reliability of electric power. The high diffusion of ICTs in the study area can act as a platform of change to bring distributive justice.

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Energy justice, unequal access to affordable warmth, and capability deprivation: A quantitative analysis for Belgium

Cited by 81 publications

References 20 publications

Energy justice in the transition to low carbon energy systems: Exploring key themes in interdisciplinary research

Energy justice in the transition to low carbon energy systems: Exploring key themes in interdisciplinary research

Energy poverty in Portugal: Combining vulnerability mapping with household interviews

Energy justice, built environment and poverty: A deep-narrative analysis of energy cultures in Brazil, India and Nigeria for policy modelling

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