Geographies of injustice: the socio-spatial determinants of energy poverty in Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary
By Stefan Bouzarovski, Sergio Tirado Herrero. 2017
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Abstract Falling real incomes, rising utility prices and the historically poor thermal quality of the housing stock are some of the main factors that have driven the rise of systemic injustices surrounding energy poverty in the post-communist states of Eastern and Central Europe (ECE). We undertake a socio-spatial and temporal assessment of energy poverty in Hungary, the Czech Republic and Poland, using Household Budget Survey micro-data and the consolidated national results of the EU Survey of Income and Living Conditions. Our results indicate that increases in domestic energy prices and expenditures during the last decade have not been offset by purchasing power gains or energy efficiency improvements, resulting in sustained and growing levels of energy poverty. Capital city regions have fared better than rural areas even if traditional macroeconomic performance indicators do not easily match domestic energy deprivation metrics. We thus question policy approaches that favour income-based solutions and fail to recognise housing- and demography-related vulnerabilities.
Subfields: Pollution, Sociology and Political Science
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- A multidimensional index to measure energy poverty: the Polish case (2020, unknown): “Energy poverty poses a serious challenge for public policy in Poland (Bouzarovski and Tirado Herrero 2017; Rutkowski et al. 2018).”
- Energy poverty policies and measures in 5 EU countries: A comparative study (2019, unknown): “In general, EP is associated with low income, poor energy performance of buildings and increased energy prices, resulting in in-adequate delivery of essential energy services in the home [10] .”
- ‘Getting the measure of fuel poverty’: The geography of fuel poverty indicators in England (2017, unknown): “This includes Poland [12], France [13], the Czech Republic, [7] and Hungary [7].”
- Energy poverty indicators: A critical review of methods (2017, background): “Rates and indicators are overwhelmingly expressed in number or percentage of households.(5,7,12,21,22,26,30,33,41,56,59,63) This is consistent with a fundamental assumption in the energy poverty and related domestic energy use literature that take households – not individuals – as the key microunit ”