Fuel poverty, the inability to obtain sufficient energy to keep warm in the home, has now become a problem in the UK. In other countries (especially in the United States and Scandinavia), the infrastructure is based around the assumption that warmth in the home is an essential need, and this has...Read more
Changes in summer (July-September) and winter (January-March) mortalities of people aged 70-74 in England and Wales from 1964 to 1984 were compared with possible causal factors. Summer mortalities were little affected by annual temperature or influenza epidemics and fell from 1972-1975 for all...Read more
Cities, with their numerous buildings and transport networks occupied and used by millions of individuals are huge energy-consuming entities. However, in Western Europe energy has rarely been considered as a criterion in architecture or planning. Coal has always been abundant and the shift to...Read more
The concept of ‘fuel poverty’, the inability to afford adequate warmth at home has become a focus for social policies in recent years. Increasing numbers of households dependent on social security and the likelihood that fuel will become more expensive mean that the existing problem of fuel...Read more
