A critical analysis of the new politics of fuel poverty in England
A critical analysis of the new politics of fuel poverty in England
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对英国燃料贫困新政治的批判性分析
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2017
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L. Middlemiss
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如果一个家庭无法负担使其成员过上体面生活所需的能源服务水平，那么这个家庭就是燃料贫乏家庭。从2010年到2015年，英国政府改变了燃料贫困的政治，提出了新的定义（“低收入，高成本”或LIHC），指标和目标。使用一个主观性的框架来分析政府文件周围LIHC，我发现：贫困和燃料贫困之间的区别是加强了新的政治，导致能源效率的措施被优先考虑作为适当的解决方案。“帮助那些最需要帮助的人”的紧缩格言贯穿于这一新政治之中，掩盖了并非所有燃料贫困都能得到缓解的观点。此外，LIHC低估了能源成本变化的作用，而能源成本变化现在对整体指标没有影响。我认为，这种新的政治是象征性的，不太可能有积极的影响，大多数燃料贫困家庭。
A household is fuel poor when it is unable to afford the level of energy services required to allow its members to live a decent life. From 2010 to 2015, the UK government transformed the politics of fuel poverty, with a new definition (‘Low income, high costs’ or LIHC), indicators and targets. Using a subjectivity framework to analyse the government documentation around LIHC, I find that: a distinction between poverty and fuel poverty is reinforced by the new politics, resulting in energy efficiency measures being prioritised as the appropriate solution. The austerity maxim of ‘helping those most in need’ is threaded through this new politics, belying an acceptance that not all fuel poverty can be alleviated. Further, LIHC underplays the role of changing energy costs, which now have no impact on the headline indicator. I argue that this new politics is symbolic, and unlikely to have positive impacts for most fuel poor households.