Fixing fuel poverty

"Since its publication in the early 1990s, Brenda Boardman's Fuel Poverty has been the reference text for those wishing to learn about this complex subject. In this, its successor, she turns a critical eye to the new millennium and finds that the situation, while now more widely recognized, is far from having improved. The book begins by discussing the political awakening to the issue of fuel poverty (sometimes called energy poverty) and exploring just who constitute the fuel poor. It examines the factors that contribute to fuel poverty-low incomes, high fuel prices and poor quality housing -…