Perceptions of Thermal Comfort and Housing Quality: Exploring the Microgeographies of Energy Poverty in Stakhanov, Ukraine

Saska Petrova, Michael Gentile, Ilkka Henrik Mäkinen and Stefan Bouzarovski
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Saska Petrova: School of Environment and Development, The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, England
Michael Gentile: Stockholm Centre on Health of Societies in Transition (SCOHOST), Södertörn University, SE-14189 Huddinge, Sweden, and Geography and Economic History, Umeå University, SE-90187 Umeå, Sweden
Ilkka Henrik Mäkinen: Stockholm Centre on Health of Societies in Transition (SCOHOST), Södertörn University, SE-14189 Huddinge, Sweden
Stefan Bouzarovski: School of Environment and Development, The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, England

Environment and Planning A, 2013, vol. 45, issue 5, 1240-1257

Abstract: The growing recognition of the importance of indoor environments as ‘active political–ecological spaces’ has rarely been followed up by a systematic empirical engagement with the constituent dynamics and conceptual issues associated with infrastructural deprivation in this domain, particularly in non-Western contexts. Therefore, we investigate the relationship between self-reported perceptions of thermal comfort in the home, on the one hand, and a range of sociodemographic, housing, and health-related variables, on the other, via a quantitative analysis of a large-scale survey undertaken in the Eastern Ukrainian town of Stakhanov. Using the perceived level of thermal comfort as a starting point for its empirical explorations, we estimate the number and type of households who feel that they are receiving inadequate energy services in the home. Special attention is paid to the role of buildings in shaping the perceptions of thermal comfort.

Keywords: energy poverty; housing; thermal comfort; cross-sectional studies; Ukraine (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1068/a45132

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