Using energy vulnerability framework to understand household agency in sustainability transitions: Experiences from Canada and Finland

IF 5.7 2区 经济学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions Pub Date : 2024-08-10 DOI:10.1016/j.eist.2024.100892
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Sustainability transitions research is increasingly engaged with the complexities of justice and equitability. In housing, policy lock-ins and infrastructural inequalities expose people to volatile energy markets, energy poverty and climate impacts. These problems have often been dealt with reactively, without resolving their underlying systemic and structural causes. We examine household energy vulnerabilities, their exposure and sensitivity to certain risks, and what their adaptive capacity is in navigating those. Based on qualitative case studies of social housing in Canada and housing cooperatives in Finland, we show that interconnected exposures and sensitivities to risks are contextual. This can lead to energy vulnerability, further triggered by changes in policies, energy markets and the environment. In Canada, neglected housing maintenance causes exposure, while in Finland, policy utilizing bottom-up action does not always strengthen household agency, especially for vulnerable households. We call for more empirical studies on household energy vulnerability in different contexts.

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利用能源脆弱性框架了解可持续性转型中的家庭代理:加拿大和芬兰的经验
可持续性转型研究越来越多地涉及公正和公平的复杂性。在住房方面,政策锁定和基础设施不平等使人们面临能源市场波动、能源贫困和气候影响。这些问题往往是被动应对,没有解决其背后的系统性和结构性原因。我们研究了家庭的能源脆弱性、他们对某些风险的暴露程度和敏感性,以及他们在应对这些风险时的适应能力。基于对加拿大社会住房和芬兰住房合作社的定性案例研究,我们表明,相互关联的风险暴露和对风险的敏感性是因环境而异的。这可能导致能源脆弱性,而政策、能源市场和环境的变化又会进一步引发这种脆弱性。在加拿大,忽视住房维护会导致风险暴露,而在芬兰,利用自下而上行动的政策并不总能加强家庭的能动性,尤其是对弱势家庭而言。我们呼吁对不同情况下的家庭能源脆弱性进行更多的实证研究。
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Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions
Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions Energy-Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
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13.60
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19.40%
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90
审稿时长
56 days
期刊介绍: Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions serves as a platform for reporting studies on innovations and socio-economic transitions aimed at fostering an environmentally sustainable economy, thereby addressing structural resource scarcity and environmental challenges, particularly those associated with fossil energy use and climate change. The journal focuses on various forms of innovation, including technological, organizational, economic, institutional, and political, as well as economy-wide and sectoral changes in areas such as energy, transport, agriculture, and water management. It endeavors to tackle complex questions concerning social, economic, behavioral-psychological, and political barriers and opportunities, along with their intricate interactions. With a multidisciplinary approach and methodological openness, the journal welcomes contributions from a wide array of disciplines within the social, environmental, and innovation sciences.
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