Extreme energy poverty in the urban peripheries of Romania and Israel: Policy, planning and infrastructure

Teschner, Naama; Sinea, Anca; Vornicu, Andreea; Abuhamed, Tareq; Negev, Maya

doi:10.1016/j.erss.2020.101502

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“…The analysis was restricted to papers published since 2015, with the exception of key contributions that informed the theoretical framing of the analysis. In conceptual terms, the analysis was based on established knowledge on the main institutional, political and economic embeddedness and implications of energy poverty [22,29,30]. Following a careful reading of abstracts identified through the searches, outputs were selected for further examination if they were deemed to contain insights relevant to the theoretical framing of the paper-involving new or influential insights regarding policies and measures to combat energy poverty in terms of both access and affordability.…”

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“…In this context, Scarpelini et al [18] emphasize the mediating role of social workers in the implementation of regional policies aimed at alleviating energy poverty, while Streimikiene et al [48] highlight the need for "determined, continued, and multifaceted actions" (p. 18) at the EU level. The joint agency of policy, planning and infrastructure-including poor energy efficiency and issues of energy access-is powerfully uncovered in Teschner et al's [30] study of "extreme" energy poverty in the urban peripheries of Romania and Israel.…”

Section: Energy Poverty In Europe: An Overviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Confronting Energy Poverty in Europe: A Research and Policy Agenda

Bouzarovski

Thomson

Cornelis³

2021

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This paper scrutinizes existing policy efforts to address energy poverty at the governance scale of the European Union (EU) and its constituent Member States. Our main starting point is the recent expansion of energy poverty policies at the EU level, fuelled by the regulatory provisions of the Clean Energy for all Europeans Package, as well as the establishment of an EU Energy Poverty Observatory. Aided by a systematic and customized methodology, we survey the extensive scientific body of work that has recently been published on the topic, as well as the multiple strategies and measures to address energy poverty that have been formulated across the EU. This includes the principal mitigation approaches adopted by key European and national institutions. We develop a framework to judge the distributional and procedural justice provisions within the recently adopted National Energy and Climate Plans, as an indicator of the power, ability and resolve of relevant institutions to combat the causes and consequences of energy injustice. We also provide a research and policy agenda for future action, highlighting a series of scientific and decision-making challenges in the European and global context.

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Section: Energy Poverty In Europe: An Overviewmentioning

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Confronting Energy Poverty in Europe: A Research and Policy Agenda

Bouzarovski

Thomson

Cornelis³

2021

Energies

129

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“…A variety of studies, both empirical and normative, have suggested a state's accessible infrastructural development does reflect its rural poverty levels, at both a local (Bucheli et al, 2018;Sewell et al, 2019), national level (Aggarwal, 2018;Maryati et al, 2020;Nakamura et al, 2019) and international level (Giampiccoli & Saayman, 2017). The same could be said with regards to urban poverty due to its spillover effects (Beard, 2019;Singh & Deewan, 2019;Teschner et al, 2020), although less studies have been performed on such. This is due to a myriad of interconnected reasons which has been reviewed earlier above in the "Why is Roadway Infrastructural Accessibility Important?"…”

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Is the Rural-Access-Index (RAI) a Reflection of Rural and Urban Poverty? A Data Analysis

Alba

2020

IJSSB

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While there are plenty of studies to support that infrastructural developments aimed at enhancing accessibility do reduce both rural and urban poverty, it is not tied to any global indicator. This is concerning for planners and policy analysts, especially those in developing nations, for they do not have a reflective indicator to rely on when attempting to optimize resource allocation towards accessible infrastructure development. Hence, in this paper, we aim to assess if the Rural Access Index (RAI) accurately reflects a nation's rural and urban poverty levels. This is based on the concept that accessibility is key to eradicating poverty. We do so by performing a regression analysis on the RAI against Rural and Urban Poverty. Our analysis determines that the RAI does indeed reflect Rural and (the square-root of) Urban poverty in relation to infrastructural development. Thus, the RAI could aid national planners and authorities in roadway infrastructural planning. It could thus be used as a specialized indicator towards the optimal allocation of resources for infrastructural developmental purposes aimed at eradicating rural and urban poverty through rural accessibility.

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“…As a basic definition, energy poverty refers to the inability of a household to secure energy necessary for doing household chores or for a comfortable temperature for living at home, either for heating, or cooling (Teschner et al 2020;Thomson, Bouzarovski, and Snell 2017;Petrova 2018). Various definitions have some political choices of narrowing it down to the securitization of basic needs or to only heating in winter, but the whole spectrum of needs might be worth considering in order to reveal the pitfalls of the intervention policies.…”

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“…Various definitions have some political choices of narrowing it down to the securitization of basic needs or to only heating in winter, but the whole spectrum of needs might be worth considering in order to reveal the pitfalls of the intervention policies. Furthermore, extreme energy poverty is highly associated with the precariousness of various life spheres, like lack of employment, lack of secure and formal access to electricity grids, lack of documentation (Teschner et al 2020).…”

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Ambiguities of energy poverty and the search for “hidden energy transfers”. A review of energy vulnerability narratives

Tufă

2020

RCV

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Several gaps in the conceptual and empirical knowledge of energy poverty have developed during recent years. This article aims to depict these inconsistencies, as well as to undertake a brief analysis of the current state of the practices and policies that build around this concept. The way energy use in household consumption contributes or not to the development and reproduction of energy poverty will be addressed though a short analysis of how different definitions employed succeed to measure energy deprivation, as well as of how these definitions are engaged as practicalities in different social contexts. To meet this purpose, I use data from European Quality of Life Survey 2003–2016, Eurostat, and EU Buildings Database, and I also focus on narratives around energy vulnerability, traced in several policy documents. This is relevant in order to highlight gaps and ambiguities that will illustrate the links between the macrosocial layouts of the geographical and political distribution of energy for residential consumption and the scaled-down realities of energy consumption in households. Patterns of energy use are influenced by access to adequate and sufficient energy sources for home maintenance and for increasing housing quality, as well as by the other variables related to the dynamics of knowledge of efficient energy sources, the evolution of the purpose of energy policies, and the holding of energy assessment strategies for household consumption. Furthermore, to advance the understanding of energy poverty mechanisms, as well as practices around energy use, a new concept of “hidden energy transfers” is proposed as an analytical tool that highlights the social embeddedness of energy, particularly how social connectedness is vital for the energy deprived households. As demonstrated, the concept builds upon previous studies and can address a more inclusive and contextual understanding of coping strategies around energy deprivation and energy poverty, that considers not only behaviours within the household, but also those outside of it. Keywords: energy poverty; energy justice; energy vulnerability; hidden energy transfers; energy literacy.

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Extreme energy poverty in the urban peripheries of Romania and Israel: Policy, planning and infrastructure

Cited by 77 publications

References 48 publications

Confronting Energy Poverty in Europe: A Research and Policy Agenda

Confronting Energy Poverty in Europe: A Research and Policy Agenda

Is the Rural-Access-Index (RAI) a Reflection of Rural and Urban Poverty? A Data Analysis

Ambiguities of energy poverty and the search for “hidden energy transfers”. A review of energy vulnerability narratives

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