Fuel poverty, thermal comfort and occupancy: results of a national household-survey in Ireland

Cold Comfort? Reconceiving the Practices of Bathing in British Self-Build Eco-Homes

“…It also extends to individual behavior, such as the need to wear a sweater inside during winter (Fordham 2000). In addition, comfort has increasingly been dominated by a concern with thermal comfort (and the related issues of air flow and ventilation), precluding understanding of its broader meaning and implications (Cooper 1982;Healy and Clinch 2002;Wong et al 2002;Peeters et al 2009). …”

Using environmental monitoring to complement in-depth qualitative interviews in cold homes research

“…Identifying people experiencing fuel poverty is a widely accepted method of identifying people most vulnerable to cold related harm 5 .…”

On the relation between the energy and social characteristics of the residential sector

“…Some relevant studies have been recently carried out aiming to identify the relations between energy consumption, income and the social and technical characteristics of the residential sector, (1)(2)(3).…”