A motivation for energy based poverty indicators

• Authors: Daniel De Haan , Marcel Kohler
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

A common method employed in tracking the success of poverty alleviation in ensuring sustainable development is through the use of a set of lead indicators which provide tangible measures of evaluating fluctuations in both poverty and environmental quality. A requirement of such lead indicators is that they be diverse in their approach, as indicators from different disciplines have their strengths and weaknesses. A motivation is made here for broadening the scope of such research through the inclusion of a set of energy based poverty indicators in the area of poverty assessment. Such energy poverty indicators provide an invaluable extra dimension in the assessment in that they relate to all three sustainability spheres: economic, social and environmental.

Keywords

EN

energy indicators; sustainable development; poverty measurement

Discipline

• ECONOMICS: ECONOMICS

• Publisher: Prague Development Center, Czech Republic
• Journal: Perspectives of Innovations, Economics and Business
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 6
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 103-107

Contributors

author

Daniel De Haan

• Division of Economics and Finance, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

author

Marcel Kohler

• Prague Development Center s.r.o., Bořivojova 1081 / 40, 130 00, Prague 3 - Žižkov, Czech Republic

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Identifiers

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.15208/pieb.2010.92