Urban vulnerability in the EMME region and sustainable development goals: A new conceptual framework

As essential as bread: Fuelwood use as a cultural practice to cope with energy poverty in Europe

“…For instance, fuelwood use is a highly gendered topic following a traditional division of labor leaving women to attend to cooking and collecting fuelwood for cooking with an adverse effect on their health [40][41][42][43]. These adverse health effects of fuelwood use, such as injuries resulting from its collection or carrying or the air pollution it causes, are often accepted as a cultural phenomenon or a lived reality [44,45]. Yet in that context, fuelwood is used due to the combination of affordability, availability, and convenience [40], and there are instances in which the exposure to energy poverty has been mitigated by using locally sourced fuelwood [46].…”

Learning from the Past: The Impacts of Economic Crises on Energy Poverty Mortality and Rural Vulnerability

“…Moreover, due to the lack of a universally agreed definition, a variety of indicators and composite indices have been developed to detect energy poverty; these have been thoroughly examined and critiqued [60][61][62][63][64][65][66]. Novel methodologies and perspectives on energy poverty have been introduced, including the impacts of climate change on the future electricity demand and its related energy vulnerabilities, indoor air pollution as a consequence of non-modern heating fuel use, and interactive tools showing responses towards the relief of energy poverty during the pandemic [67][68][69].…”

Conflict Resilience Framework for Critical Infrastructure Peacebuilding

“…Also, the huge progress in the usage of UAV or special cameras for the inspection of damaged structures can lead to a new source of information for more accurate resilience modelling, by providing more information for the level of knowledge 2 (L2). The proposed resiliency framework can be examined under the prism of post-war urban planning frameworks (Kyprianou et al, 2022), to associate actions and support efficient decisions, also considering this in conjunction with other hazards (Wang & van de Lindt, 2022).…”

“…Apart from the restoration of physical infrastructure and facilities, the economic dimension of post-conflict reconstruction also involves providing relief assistance and re-establishing social and other services (Earnest, 2015). Such support should ensure the appropriate conditions for the private sector development, implementation of essential structural reforms for growth (Tzifakis, 2013) and more sustainable infrastructure (Watkins et al, 2017) to align with the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations and reduce urban vulnerability (Kyprianou et al, 2022). It is inevitable that governments will not initially achieve all the conditions required for the resumption of development.…”