Insulating Inequality : Limits of Housing Retrofit Subsidies in
Tackling Energy Poverty in Czechia

k 2025

Insulating Inequality : Limits of Housing Retrofit Subsidies in Tackling Energy Poverty in Czechia

DAVID, Dominik a Hedvika KOĎOUSKOVÁ

Základní údaje

Originální název

Insulating Inequality : Limits of Housing Retrofit Subsidies in Tackling Energy Poverty in Czechia

Autoři

DAVID, Dominik a Hedvika KOĎOUSKOVÁ

Vydání

ECPR General Conference 2025, Thessaloniki, Greece, 2025

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Prezentace na konferencích

Obor

50600 5.6 Political science

Stát vydavatele

Řecko

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Označené pro přenos do RIV

Ano

Kód RIV

RIV/00216224:14230/25:00144558

Organizační jednotka

Fakulta sociálních studií

Klíčová slova anglicky

Energy Policy; Environmental Policy; Policy Analysis; Energy Poverty; Energy Vulnerability

Štítky

rivok

Změněno: 30. 3. 2026 13:08, Mgr. Blanka Farkašová

Anotace

V originále

The contribution assesses whether two Czech housing retrofit subsidy schemes—New Green Savings Light and Renovate the House after Grandma—advance both climate objectives and the reduction of energy poverty and vulnerability—publicly stated goals. Using an expanded energy justice framework, the study moves beyond documenting distributional, procedural, and recognition-based injustices to interrogate how dominant framings of energy poverty and vulnerability—together with systematic misrecognition of the lived realities of the energy-poor—are embedded in policy design and governance. Drawing on interviews with experts, energy advisors, and programme recipients, the analysis shows how these structural and ideational conditions reproduce existing vulnerabilities, privileging already better-positioned households while excluding those most at risk. The programmes’ reliance on individualised responsibility, narrow technocratic focus and fragmented governance undermine their restorative potential: rather than remedying structural disadvantage, they risk fostering a “restorative discourse” in which energy poverty is prematurely portrayed as resolved. Addressing energy poverty in ways that achieve genuine energy justice therefore requires not only subsidy schemes, but a framing shift together with wider structural reforms and socio-technical interventions.

Návaznosti

GA24-10529S, projekt VaV

Název: Protnutí mezi selháním politik a energetickou spravedlností: Poznatky z České republiky

Investor: Grantová agentura ČR, Protnutí mezi selháním politik a energetickou spravedlností: Poznatky z České republiky

Citovat

DAVID, Dominik a Hedvika KOĎOUSKOVÁ. Insulating Inequality : Limits of Housing Retrofit Subsidies in Tackling Energy Poverty in Czechia. In ECPR General Conference 2025, Thessaloniki, Greece. 2025.

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   language = {eng},
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   year = {2025}
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DAVID, Dominik a Hedvika KOĎOUSKOVÁ. Insulating Inequality : Limits of Housing Retrofit Subsidies in Tackling Energy Poverty in Czechia. In \textit{ECPR General Conference 2025, Thessaloniki, Greece}. 2025.

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