Fuel Poverty
From Cold Homes to Affordable Warmth
Published on 15. February 1991
Book
Hardback
224 pages
978-0-471-94483-6 (ISBN)
Description
Fuel poverty, the inability to obtain sufficient energy to keep warm in the home, has now become a problem in the UK. In other countries (especially in the United States and Scandinavia), the infrastructure is based around the assumption that warmth in the home is an essential need, and this has been reflected in policy and design. The author a provided an analysis of the problem, its causes and possible solutions. There is a profile of the fuel poor, followed by a section on technical aspects of heating the home. The social dimensions of the need for warmth are followed by an economic assessment of expenditure patterns. The final chapters look at the international comparisons and policy implications, particularly in relation to the privatization of electricity, concern about the environmental pollution, and trends in European legislation.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Chichester
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
index, figures, tables
Weight
560 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-471-94483-6 (9780471944836)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Content
Framework; emergence of fuel poverty - legacy of the pre 1970 years, 1970-75 fuel poverty identified, 1976-90 government responses; profile of the fuel poor - problems with fuel bills, defining poverty, education and behaviour; retaining heat - measurement matters, defective buildings, added insultion, government funded insulation programmes, new initiatives, defective buildings, national heat loss characteristics; creating warmth - technical efficiency COWI 3, economic efficiency, ownership of heating, government policies on useful energy; warmth needed - internal temperature - COWI 6, external temperature - COWI 5, occupancy patterns - COWI 7; achieved warmth - trends, averages and incomes, excess winter deaths; energy purchases - average household trends, expenditure by consuming households, useful energy and warmth; the value of warmth - elasticities, modelling demand, present methods, cost effective energy efficiency improvements, investment criteria; a programme for affordable warmth - defining fuel poverty, the proposed programme; minimizing income.