Organized into six practical sections relating theory to application from an historical perspective, this text offers contributions from international scholars and practitioners who reflect the diversity of this field

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Introduction : energy poverty and its drivers in post-communist Europe : the visible, the measurable and the hidden / Ute Dubois -- Energy poverty in Hungary : trapped in politics / Anna Zsófia Bajomi, Nóra Feldmár, and Lea Kőszeghy -- Inconsistencies in policy-making as drivers of energy...

"The Routledge History of Poverty in Europe, c.1450-1800 is a pioneering exploration of both the lives of the very poorest during the early modern period, and of the vast edifices of compassion and coercion erected around them by individuals, institutions, and states. By exploring poverty and...

Chapter 1. Why Prioritize Needs? -- Part I: Identification of Needs -- Chapter 2. Need as One Distribution Principle: Frames and Framing -- Chapter 3. Measuring Need-Based Justice—Empirically and Formally -- Part II: Structures and Processes of the Recognition of Needs -- Chapter 4. The Social...