Uninterrupted, high quality, affordable, and sufficient access to energy services is essential to human life. The European Union (EU) has recognized this in recent years by providing greater protection to vulnerable and energy poor households, and by requiring States to provide various forms of...

The impacts of climate change on human health are currently accepted by the World Health Organization and the IPCC as "wide-ranging, diverse and overwhelmingly negative". This research paper thoroughly sets out and examines a broad range of obligations deriving from the human right to health...

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 literature and policy base for fuel poverty in the UK and Ireland is well established, and there is a growing body of single country studies beyond these two EU member states (for example Brunner et al. (2012), Dubois (2012), and Tirado Herrero and Ürge-Vorsatz (2010)), however, on a...

Due to increasing government support for renewable energy in combination with high fossil fuel prices and environmental concerns, demand for wood pellet heating is rising all over Europe. Despite the rapid growth in wood pellet heating, the suitability and usability of wood pellet boilers in...

Social dialogue is one of the cornerstones of social Europe and involves employers, workers and their representatives, and, in tripartite structures, also public authorities in the discussions and negotiations which shape social policy and industrial relations. This study seeks to establish how...