This paper charts the emergent body of new approaches towards the research and amelioration of energy deprivation in the home. It starts from the premise that all forms of energy and fuel poverty – in developed and developing countries alike – are underpinned by a common condition: the...

Introduction / Stefan Bouzarovski, Neil Simcock, Harriet Thomson, and Saska Petrova -- Energy poverty in an intersectional perspective : on multiple deprivation, discriminatory systems and the effects of policies / Katrin Grossmann and Antje Kahlheber -- Understanding energy poverty through the...

The recent announcement that the Russian state-owned gas monopoly Gazprom and two German energy companies intend to construct a new undersea Baltic pipeline that will bypass Poland has raised a fierce political storm in that country. In this paper, we aim to shed further light onto the forces...

Energy poverty can be understood as the inability of a household to secure a socially- and materially-necessitated level of energy services in the home (Bouzarovski, 2014). While the condition is widespread across Europe, its spatial and social distribution is highly uneven – a disparity that...

This final report summarises the outcomes of the study "Transport poverty: Definitions, indicators, determinants, and mitigation strategies" commissioned by DG EMPL. Proceeding based on three tasks, the project (i) investigates the concepts and definitions related to transport poverty, (ii)...

This paper aims to develop a relational geographical interpretation of energy poverty in the post-socialist states of Eastern and Central Europe, through a field-based study of inadequately-heated homes in the Macedonian cities of Stip and Skopje. I argue that energy poverty is produced by the...