Overview
- This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access
- Offers a basis for a wide-ranging research agenda within energy research and other related areas of analysis
- Contributes new insights relevant to critiquing and influencing government action and policy
Part of the book series: Progressive Energy Policy (PEP)
Buy print copy
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Table of contents (7 chapters)
-
Front Matter
Keywords
About this book
This Open Access book examines the implications of welfare policy for energy poverty and engages with key conceptual debates at the forefront of energy demand research. Academic work on energy poverty has rarely been brought into conversation with practice-theory-based approaches to energy use and sustainability. This book reveals how novel insights can be made visible through combining these different ways of thinking about energy demand issues. It presents a distinctive approach to energy poverty that places inequalities at the heart of debates about the advancing energy intensity of contemporary societies.
Reviews
“Catherine Butler’s new book is theoretically innovative, bringing much-needed insights on poverty and vulnerability into the study of Social Practices. It offers in-depth analysis of how “invisible energy policies” operate in the real world, revealing the important intersections between welfare policies and energy in everyday life. Amid the cost of living crisis, and the ever-more contested politics of social security, this book makes a hugely timely contribution, and will be a valuable resource for researchers, students, and all those concerned with understanding and promoting energy justice.” (Sarah Royston, Anglia Ruskin University, UK)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Dr Catherine Butler is Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at University of Exeter. Her research centres around analysis of environmental governance processes with focus on the intersections between policy, politics, and everyday life. She has published extensively on topics including energy transitions in everyday life, behavioural change and social practice, wellbeing impacts of environmental change processes, and governance of climate adaptation. This book arises out of her four-year EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council) funded project.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Energy Poverty, Practice, and Policy
Authors: Catherine Butler
Series Title: Progressive Energy Policy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-99432-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-99431-0Published: 16 July 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-99432-7Published: 15 July 2022
Series ISSN: 2946-3939
Series E-ISSN: 2946-3947
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 136
Number of Illustrations: 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Environmental Policy, Sociology, general, Energy Policy, Economics and Management, Environmental Geography, Geography, general