期刊
ENERGY POLICY
卷 93, 期 -, 页码 255-264出版社
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2016.03.019
关键词
Energy poverty; Fuel poverty; Capabilities; Functionings; Energy services; Energy demand
资金
- UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council as part of the RCUK Energy Programme [EP/K011723/1, EP/G040176/1]
- EDF as part of the R&D ECLEER Programme
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/G040176/1, EP/K011723/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- Natural Environment Research Council [ceh010010] Funding Source: researchfish
- EPSRC [EP/K011723/1, EP/G040176/1] Funding Source: UKRI
In this article we conceptualise energy use from a capabilities perspective, informed by the work of Amartya Sen, Martha Nussbaum and others following them. Building on this, we suggest a corresponding definition of energy poverty, as understood in the capabilities space. We argue that such an understanding provides a theoretically coherent means of comprehending the relationship between energy and wellbeing, and thus conceptualising energy deprivation, that makes sense across settings including both the global North and South: a coherence which has previously been lacking. At the same time, it has the flexibility to be deployed in a way that is sensitive to local contexts. Understanding energy use in the capabilities space also provides a means for identifying multiple sites of intervention, including some areas that are currently largely overlooked. We argue that this is advantageous for attempts to address energy poverty in the context of climate change and imperatives for the containment of aggregate energy consumption. (C) 2016 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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