The water-energy vulnerability in the Barcelona metropolitan area

Yoon, Hyerim; Saurı́, David; Domene, Elena

doi:10.1016/j.enbuild.2019.06.039

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“…Consequently, EP-affected persons have the need to reduce their expenditure in a variety of basic services and essential goods to pay for utility bills, very much unlike non-EP households. Previous work by Yoon and Saurí [58] also based on collected data from APE's participants during 2015-2016 shows similar patterns about socioeconomic characteristics of the EP participants. In this earlier study, most participants in APE CAAs were persons at risk of social exclusion.…”

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Tackling Energy Poverty through Collective Advisory Assemblies and Electricity and Comfort Monitoring Campaigns

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The present work aims to describe and analyze the results of the interventions carried out in the Barcelona pilot site of the EmpowerMed project. The overall objective of EmpowerMed is to tackle energy poverty and to help improve the health of people in coastal areas of Mediterranean countries, with a particular focus on women. The main support approach implemented in Barcelona is Collective Advisory Assemblies (CAA), in the framework of Alliance against Energy Poverty. CAA is an innovative, collaborative empowering engagement tool that offers an alternative to the more traditional one-off individual household advice and support approaches. CAAs take place together with a monitoring campaign where: electricity consumption is analyzed to optimize the supply contracts, and indoor environmental comfort to provide recommendations for wellbeing improvement. Through the different approaches, a characterization of the people that have participated in the Barcelona pilot site was completed, from a socioeconomic, energy, thermal comfort and air quality perspective. Additionally, it was compared with a group of energy poverty non-affected households, which are involved in the monitoring campaign. Finally, the impact was quantified in terms of empowerment of energy poverty population and, potential economic savings.

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“…This is a 10-item questionnaire that provides a Rashed-scaled single score where higher scores indicate better HRQoL [33,34]. Finally, we also analysed two health outcomes that, according to the literature, can be significantly affected by EP, namely asthma and overweight [19,35]. Asthma was assessed through a chronic morbidity checklist, where the caregivers were asked, among others things, if the children suffered from asthma.…”

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The Association of Energy Poverty with Health and Wellbeing in Children in a Mediterranean City

Oliveras

Borrell

González-Pijuan

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Children have been identified as being particularly vulnerable to energy poverty (EP), but little empirical research has addressed the effect of EP on children’s health and wellbeing, especially in southern Europe. In this work we aimed to provide an in-depth description of the distribution of EP by sociodemographic, socioeconomic and housing characteristics, as well as to analyse the association between EP and health and wellbeing in children in Barcelona. We performed a cross-sectional study using data from the Barcelona Health Survey for 2016 (n = 481 children under 15 years). We analysed the association between EP and health outcomes through prevalence differences and prevalence ratios (PR) and their 95% confidence interval (CI), using Poisson regression models with robust variance. In Barcelona, 10.6% of children were living in EP and large inequalities were found by sociodemographic, socioeconomic and housing characteristics. EP was strongly associated with poor health in children (PR (95% CI): 7.70 (2.86, 20.72)). Living in EP was also associated with poor mental health (PR (95% CI): 2.46 (1.21, 4.99)) and with more cases of asthma (PR (95% CI): 4.19 (1.47, 11.90)) and overweight (PR (95% CI): 1.50 (1.05, 2.15)) in children. It is urgent to develop specific measures to avoid such serious and unfair health effects on children.

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“…Rural populations across South America, including Brazil and Chile, have increasingly called for energy structure adjustments [32]. Low energy consumption and weak energy use capacity problems are noticeable in China; since 1986, China has focused on addressing rural energy poverty [11]. DellaValle (2019a) explained that energy poverty is not only confined to rural areas but also exists in some urban communities [33].…”

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“…This situation is most critical in the Sahara region, where residents obtain energy by burning biomass [10]. Although China achieved the goal of full electricity supply coverage by 2014, Yoon et al (2019) found that approximately 490 million Chinese citizens use solid fuels in their daily lives [11]. According to the results of the China Family Panel Survey (CFPS), more than 30% of households use conventional energy, of which the majority are rural households [12].…”

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Factors of Energy Poverty: Evidence from Tibet, China

Zang

Chandio

2021

Sustainability

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Energy poverty due to rising energy demand is a matter of global concern. Therefore, examination of the causes of energy poverty and development of effective solutions are urgent concerns. Using survey data on livelihood development in Tibetan farming and pastoral areas in 2019, this study applied logistic and ordinary least squares models to empirically investigate the factors that influence energy poverty in Tibet. We found that energy poverty is (1) unrelated to age, gender, education, marital status, political and village cadre experience, planting, or expenditures related to religious activities; (2) negatively correlated with migrant work, village status, household income, and traffic conditions; (3) positively correlated with employment, area, and breeding; and (4) both positively and negatively affected by family residence altitude. The results offer new insights and empirical evidence for the identification and elimination of energy poverty, improving livelihoods, and promoting rural revitalisation in Tibet.

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The water-energy vulnerability in the Barcelona metropolitan area

Cited by 27 publications

References 56 publications

Tackling Energy Poverty through Collective Advisory Assemblies and Electricity and Comfort Monitoring Campaigns

Tackling Energy Poverty through Collective Advisory Assemblies and Electricity and Comfort Monitoring Campaigns

The Association of Energy Poverty with Health and Wellbeing in Children in a Mediterranean City

Factors of Energy Poverty: Evidence from Tibet, China

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