Social policy or energy policy? Time to reconsider energy poverty policies

Energy Policy and the Social Discount Rate

Recent debates over the economics of climate change underscore the importance of what at first blush is a narrow technical issue in welfare economics and cost-benefit analysis (CBA). Yet even before the need to study the economics of climate change, debate over both nuclear energy policy and water resource policy highlighted the fateful role that social discount rates play in policy prescriptio...

Energy Efficiency and Energy Policy

Policy packaging or policy patching? The development of complex energy efficiency policy mixes

The ambition of energy policy has long been to reduce carbon emissions, secure energy supply and provide affordable energy services. In recent years an increasing number of policy instruments have been introduced to promote energy efficiency in different sectors across the EU. While previous research has largely analysed the effectiveness of individual policy instruments and their impact on the...

Energy Economics and Policy

Copyright © 2013 Zhan-Ming Chen et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. There are emerging concerns worldwide on management of energy resources and its development, such as control of the environmental impact of ene...

Poverty, Policy and Place: How Poverty and Policies to Alleviate Poverty Are Shaped by Local Characteristics