Fixing Fuel Poverty | Challenges and Solutions

Brenda Boardman

ISBN 10: 1844077446 / ISBN 13: 9781844077441

Published by Routledge, 2009

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Fixing Fuel Poverty | Challenges and Solutions | Brenda Boardman | Taschenbuch | Einband - flex.(Paperback) | Englisch | 2009 | Routledge | EAN 9781844077441 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Fixing Fuel Poverty | Challenges and Solutions
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1844077446
• ISBN 13: 9781844077441
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 234W x 156H x 15D millimeters 234 millimeters width by 156 millimeters height by 15 millimeters depth
• Weight: 418 grams
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

Since its publication in the early 90s, Brenda Boardman's Fuel Poverty has been the reference text for those wishing to learn about this complex subject. In this, its successor, she turns a critical eye to the new millennium and finds that the situation, while now more widely recognised, is far from having improved.

The book begins by discussing the political awakening to the issue and exploring just who constitutes the fuel poor. It examines the factors that contribute to fuel poverty - low incomes, high fuel prices and poor quality housing - and looks at and evaluates the policies that have been employed to help reduce the problem. The latter part presents a detailed set of proposals based around long-term improvements in the housing stock that must be employed if we are to avoid a dire situation continuing to get worse. Based on detailed analysis of the situation in the UK, the growth of fuel poverty (sometimes called energy poverty) in other countries and the new focus in European policy makes the book timely and provides important lessons for those who now have to produce policies to tackle the issues.

About the Author

Brenda Boardman is Emeritus Fellow with the Lower Carbon Futures at the Environmental Change Institute at the University of Oxford. She has published extensively on energy use in the home and fuel poverty.