Inequality And Energy: How Extremes Of Wealth And Poverty In High Income Countries Affect Co2 Emissions And Access To Ener
by Ray Galvin 2020-11-23 18:46:43
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Inequality and Energy: How Extremes of Wealth and Poverty in High Income Countries Affect CO2 Emissions and Access to Energychallenges energy consumption researchers in developed countries to reorient their research frameworks to include the effects ... Read more

Inequality and Energy: How Extremes of Wealth and Poverty in High Income Countries Affect CO2 Emissions and Access to Energychallenges energy consumption researchers in developed countries to reorient their research frameworks to include the effects of economic inequality within the scope of their investigations, and calls for a new set of paradigms for energy consumption research. The book explores concrete examples of energy deprivation due to inequality, and provides conceptual tools to explore this in relation to other issues regarding energy consumption. It thereby urges that energy consumption approaches be updated for a world of increasing inequality.

Extreme economic inequality has increased within developed countries over the past three decades. The effects of inequality are now seen increasingly in health, housing affordability, crime and social cohesion. There are signs it may even threaten democracy. Researchers are also exploring its effects on energy consumption. One of their key findings is that less privileged groups have lost consistent access to basic energy services like warm homes and affordable transport, leading to huge disparities of climate damaging emissions between rich and poor.



  • Provides overwhelming evidence of the persistent and increasing income inequality and wealth inequality in developed countries over the past three decades
  • Showcases recent empirical work that explores correlates of this inequality with energy consumption behavior and some of the key problems of access to adequate energy services
  • Shows the connections between these findings and the existing ways of researching energy consumption behavior and policy
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  • 9.25 X 7.5 X 0 in
  • 304
  • Academic Press
  • November 1, 2019
  • English
  • 9780128176740
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