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Addressing Multidimensional Energy Poverty Implications on Achieving Sustainable Development

open access: yesEnergies, 2023
This study examines whether shifts in the stance of policymaking can account for the observed predictability in excess energy poverty (EP) or fuel poverty (FP) levels.
George E. Halkos   +1 more
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Social housing in Spain: obsolescence and intervention strategies

open access: yesVitruvio: International Journal of Architectural Technology and Sustainability, 2023
Social housing in Spain has its origin in the first Cheap Houses Law that was promulgated in 1911, trying to provide a solution to a housing need for the working class who flocked to the cities in waves of migration from rural areas.
Concepción López González
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Redefining energy vulnerability, considering the future

open access: yesFrontiers in Sustainable Cities, 2022
Within the EU, energy poverty is believed to affect at least 9.8% of households. Energy poverty can be broadly defined as a households' inability to meet its energy needs.
Adam X. Hearn   +3 more
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Energy Poverty and Protection of Vulnerable Consumers. Overview of the EU Funding Programs FP7 and H2020 and Future Trends in Horizon Europe

open access: yesEnergies, 2020
Energy poverty—involving a combination of factors, such as low household incomes, high energy prices, and low levels of residential energy efficiency—is identified as a complex and increasing issue affecting people’s physical health ...
Danila Longo   +4 more
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Confronting Energy Poverty in Europe: A Research and Policy Agenda

open access: yesEnergies, 2021
This paper scrutinizes existing policy efforts to address energy poverty at the governance scale of the European Union (EU) and its constituent Member States.
Stefan Bouzarovski   +2 more
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A retrospective analysis of climate adaptation strategies and implications for food and nutrition security among small-scale farmers in South Africa

open access: yesFrontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2023
With the ever-increasing climate change, actions to reduce its negative impact while improving food and nutrition security are critical. This review is a retrospective analysis of climate adaptation strategies and implications for food and nutrition ...
D. S. Kori, L. Zhou, M. Sibanda
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Framework for Assessment of the Economic Vulnerability of Energy-Resource-Exporting Countries

open access: yesResources, 2023
Energy security is widely examined from the perspective of energy import vulnerability, but it is less common to evaluate the vulnerability of energy exporters.
Andrew Curtis, Benjamin McLellan
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Identification of key brittleness factors and multi-scenario analysis of the water-energy-food-ecology nexus vulnerability based on NRS-BN

open access: yesFrontiers in Environmental Science, 2023
Water, energy and food are the basic resources on which human beings depend for survival. With the intensification of human activities, the demand for resources represented by water, energy and food continues to increase, resulting in increasing pressure
Yan Chen, Yan Chen, Yue Pan, Mengya Geng
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A Study on the Vulnerability Cascade Propagation of Integrated Energy Systems in the Transportation Industry Based on the Petri Network

open access: yesEnergies, 2022
In order to solve the vulnerability problem of the integrated energy system in the transportation industry, a vulnerability cascade propagation model based on the Petri net is proposed.
Xiaohong Yin, Lin Li, Qiang Liu
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Who is vulnerable to energy poverty in China?

open access: yesHeliyon, 2023
Energy poverty has been identified as a problem in China, but research to date does not discuss who experiences it, unlike in other countries. Here, we compared sociodemographic characteristics known to be linked to energy vulnerability in other nations ...
Lin Zhang, Lucie Middlemiss, Ian Philips
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