Lambert, Rita;
Tomei, Julia;
Escalante Estrada, Carlos;
De Los Rios, Silvia;
(2023)
Centralized injustices: understanding energy resilience in times of disruption in low-income settlements in Peru.
Environment & Urbanization
10.1177/09562478231180771.
(In press).
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Abstract
What happens once people have electricity has received far less analytical and policy attention than the provision of the infrastructure itself. For low-income settlements that have gained a connection to the grid, energy access challenges can still prevail, keeping many inhabitants in energy poverty. This paper analyses energy practices in three low-income neighbourhoods in Lima, Peru, with particular attention to inhabitants’ responses in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic. In doing so, it seeks to draw lessons for energy policy and planning to enhance energy resilience in the transition towards more just and sustainable futures. Building on energy resilience scholarship and drawing links with justice debates, this paper discusses three community coping strategies: (1) fuel stacking; (2) collective practices and the shared economy; and (3) material and spatial changes. It analyses how these strategies relate to dominant policy directions, as well as their implications for energy resilience and justice more broadly.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Centralized injustices: understanding energy resilience in times of disruption in low-income settlements in Peru |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1177/09562478231180771 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1177/09562478231180771 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2023 International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED). Creative Commons License (CC BY 4.0) This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
| Keywords: | COVID-19, energy poverty, energy practices, energy vulnerability, informal settlements, justice, Lima, resilience |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > Bartlett School Env, Energy and Resources UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > Development Planning Unit |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10173857 |
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