Eating, heating or taking the bus? Lived experiences at the intersection of energy and transport poverty

• DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2023.102728
• Publication Date: 2023-07-19T21:31:52Z
• Authors: Mari Martiskainen; Debbie Hopkins; Gerardo A. Torres...; Kirsten E.H. Jenkins; Giulio Mattioli; Neil Simcock; Max Lacey-Barnacle
• Keywords: Vulnerability; Energy Poverty; Fuel poverty; Everyday Life

Experiences of poverty can manifest in multiple aspects everyday life, often interlinking ways. One example is 'double energy vulnerability', where a household faces both and transport simultaneously. This result trade-offs, prioritising one essential need (e.g., transport) makes accessing another impossible heating). Such decisions are not easily made, they have distinct spatio-temporal characteristics. They vary between space time across different members, stark inter- as well intra-household differences. People with socio-demographic contextual vulnerabilities particularly at risk experiencing double vulnerability. Based on 59 interviews the four nations United Kingdom, we provide novel, multi-nation empirical evidence lived experiences vulnerability, drawing our themes; 'being locked into infrastructure', 'facing high costs low incomes', 'choosing transport', 'missing out'. A cross-national lived-experiences approach sheds light vulnerability relational, contingent ongoing phenomena, attending to capacities. We suggestions for further research, such study amongst refugees migrants. also highlight that aid recognition how forms intersect be taken account design Net Zero policies.