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Localized energy burden, concentrated disadvantage, and the feminization of energy poverty
Energy burden directly influences households' health and safety. Amid a growing literature on energy, poverty and gender remains relatively understudied. We evaluate socioeconomic, geographic, and health factors as multidimensions of concentrated disadvantage that magnify energy burden in the U...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8991312/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35402875 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2022.104139 |
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author | Chen, Chien-fei Feng, Jimmy Luke, Nikki Kuo, Cheng-Pin Fu, Joshua S. |
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description | Energy burden directly influences households' health and safety. Amid a growing literature on energy, poverty and gender remains relatively understudied. We evaluate socioeconomic, geographic, and health factors as multidimensions of concentrated disadvantage that magnify energy burden in the United States over time. We show that the energy burden is more pronounced in disadvantaged counties with larger elderly, impoverished, disabled people, and racialized populations where people do not have health insurance. Neighborhoods with households headed by women of color (especially Black women) are more likely to face a high energy burden, which worsened during the COVID-19 pandemic. Although energy costs are often regarded as an individual responsibility, these findings illustrate the feminization of energy poverty and indicate the need for an intersectional and interdisciplinary framework in devising energy policy directed to households with the most severe energy burden. |
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spelling | pubmed-89913122022-04-09 Localized energy burden, concentrated disadvantage, and the feminization of energy poverty Chen, Chien-fei Feng, Jimmy Luke, Nikki Kuo, Cheng-Pin Fu, Joshua S. iScience Article Energy burden directly influences households' health and safety. Amid a growing literature on energy, poverty and gender remains relatively understudied. We evaluate socioeconomic, geographic, and health factors as multidimensions of concentrated disadvantage that magnify energy burden in the United States over time. We show that the energy burden is more pronounced in disadvantaged counties with larger elderly, impoverished, disabled people, and racialized populations where people do not have health insurance. Neighborhoods with households headed by women of color (especially Black women) are more likely to face a high energy burden, which worsened during the COVID-19 pandemic. Although energy costs are often regarded as an individual responsibility, these findings illustrate the feminization of energy poverty and indicate the need for an intersectional and interdisciplinary framework in devising energy policy directed to households with the most severe energy burden. Elsevier 2022-03-24 /pmc/articles/PMC8991312/ /pubmed/35402875 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2022.104139 Text en © 2022 The Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Chen, Chien-fei Feng, Jimmy Luke, Nikki Kuo, Cheng-Pin Fu, Joshua S. Localized energy burden, concentrated disadvantage, and the feminization of energy poverty |
title | Localized energy burden, concentrated disadvantage, and the feminization of energy poverty |
title_full | Localized energy burden, concentrated disadvantage, and the feminization of energy poverty |
title_fullStr | Localized energy burden, concentrated disadvantage, and the feminization of energy poverty |
title_full_unstemmed | Localized energy burden, concentrated disadvantage, and the feminization of energy poverty |
title_short | Localized energy burden, concentrated disadvantage, and the feminization of energy poverty |
title_sort | localized energy burden, concentrated disadvantage, and the feminization of energy poverty |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8991312/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35402875 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2022.104139 |
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