Towards a multiple-indicator approach to energy poverty in the European Union: A review

Castaño-Rosa, Raúl; Solís-Guzmán, Jaime; Rubio-Bellido, Carlos; Marrero, Madelyn

doi:10.1016/j.enbuild.2019.03.039

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“…The types of countries, regions and neighbourhoods that are most affected by energy poverty have also been explored in the literature [15], along with the geographic features of associated inequalities and vulnerabilities [16][17][18]. Indicator frameworks have been examined and improved, highlighting new factors that need to be taken into consideration through innovative measurement and approaches [19,20].…”

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Confronting Energy Poverty in Europe: A Research and Policy Agenda

Bouzarovski

Thomson

Cornelis³

2021

Energies

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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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Confronting Energy Poverty in Europe: A Research and Policy Agenda

Bouzarovski

Thomson

Cornelis³

2021

Energies

129

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“…Some scholars have tried to incorporate energy efficiency and environmental impact in energy poverty research and have constructed a more complete conceptual framework for energy poverty [14][15][16]. In response to appeals from scholars and the public, European countries, especially the United Kingdom (UK), France, and Cyprus, began to address the issue of energy poverty within their borders many years ago and tried to formulate appropriate policies to alleviate energy poverty [17]. India, China, and other developing countries have gradually begun to include energy poverty in their policy agendas, but have achieved only limited effects of policy works [18,19].…”

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Mapping the Worldwide Trends on Energy Poverty Research: A Bibliometric Analysis (1999–2019)

Xiao

Wang

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Energy poverty is one of the main challenges facing humanity in the 21st century. Research on energy poverty is becoming a common focus of scholars in many areas. Bibliometrics can help researchers dig deep into the information of specific research fields from a quantitative perspective. In this study, we collected 1018 research papers in the field of energy poverty published in the period 1999–2019 from the Web of Science databases and conducted a bibliometric analysis on them. Cleaning and screening of sample papers, matrix construction, and visualization were performed using Bibliometrix, VOSviewer, and HistCite, summarizing the internal and external characteristics of the papers. With regard to external characteristics, a total of 982 research institutions in 80 regions conducted research in this field. There is extensive cooperation between the countries, and the UK, the USA, Australia, and Italy play the most active role in the cooperation network. With regard to internal characteristics, we found the two most representative citation paths: one path starts from the concerns of energy-poor groups and stops at an ethical discussion on energy poverty; the second path is based on the existing technological path, continuously developing coping policies, evaluation methods, and a conceptual framework for dealing with energy poverty. Furthermore, through coupling analysis, we discovered four focuses of energy poverty research: improvement of definition, improvement of evaluation methods, effects of coping policy, and energy justice. Through a comprehensive analysis of existing papers, this paper reveals some limitations of previous studies and recommends some promising directions for future research on energy poverty.

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“…Over 124 million people from the European Union is at FP risk [1] . The governments of each countries are more and more interested in establishing measures to reduce FP cases; however, the lack of a common framework to define the method can make its detection something of a challenge [2] . There are both many definitions for FP and indicators for its quantification [3] .…”

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confidence: 99%