Eco-Welfare and the Energy Transition

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the emerging interplay that runs between energy - seen as a basic need and a providential material service from the viewpoint of welfare studies - and eco-welfare, seen as an emerging analytical and policy paradigm that hold together the social crisis on the one hand, and the ecological crisis, on the other hand. At a time of energy transition, the interplay between the theoretical framework of eco-welfare and the topic of energy supply is little explored, and therefore, this book fills a need in the literature by providing a comprehensive framework to navigate this emerging relationship. Such a framework is strengthened by insights on energy poverty and renewable energy communities, identified as cornerstones of the analysis between energy transition and eco-welfare.

Chapter 1. Introduction. - Chapter 2. Eco-welfare in the field of social sciences. - Chapter 3. Eco-welfare and energy: navigating an emerging interplay. - Chapter 4. Eco-welfare, populations, and vulnerabilities. - Chapter 5. Eco-welfare tools: Renewable Energy Communities. - Chapter 6. Concluding remarks.