TY - GEN A1 - Sareen, Siddharth A1 - Thomson, Harriet A1 - Tirado-Herrero, Sergio A1 - Gouveia, João Pedro A1 - Lippert, Ingmar A1 - Lis, Aleksandra T1 - European energy poverty metrics: Scales, prospects and limits T2 - Global Transitions N2 - Energy poverty, a condition whereby people cannot secure adequate home energy services, is gaining prominence in public discourse and on political and policy agendas. As its measurement is operationalised, metrical developments are being socially shaped. A European Union mandate for biennial reporting on energy poverty presents an opportunity to institutionalise new metrics and thus privilege certain measurements as standards. While combining indicators at multiple scales is desirable to measure multi-dimensional aspects, it entails challenges such as database availability, coverage and limited disaggregated resolution. This article converges scholarship on metrics – which problematises the act of measurement – and on energy poverty – which apprehends socio-political and techno-economic particulars. Scholarship on metrics suggests that any basket of indicators risks silencing significant but hard to measure aspects, or unwarrantedly privileging others. State-of-the-art energy poverty scholarship calls for indicators that represent contextualised energy use issues, including energy access and quality, expenditure in relation to income, built environment related aspects and thermal comfort levels, while retaining simplicity and comparability for policy traction. We frame energy poverty metrology as the socially shaped measurement of a varied, multi-dimensional phenomenon within historically bureaucratic and publicly distant energy sectors, and assess the risks and opportunities that must be negotiated. To generate actionable knowledge, we propose an analytical framework with five dimensions of energy poverty metrology, and illustrate it using multi-scalar cases from three European countries. Dimensions include historical trajectories, data flattening, contextualised identification, new representation and policy uptake. We argue that the measurement of energy poverty must be informed by the politics of data and scale in order to institutionalise emerging metrics, while safeguarding against their co-optation for purposes other than the deep and rapid alleviation of energy poverty. This ‘dimensioned’ understanding of metrology can provide leverage to push for decisive action to address the structural underpinnings of domestic energy deprivation. KW - Energy poverty KW - Metrology KW - Data politics KW - Metrics KW - Energy policy Y1 - 2020 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.glt.2020.01.003 SN - 2589-7918 VL - 2 SP - 26 EP - 36 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Simons, Arno A1 - Lis, Aleksandra A1 - Lippert, Ingmar T1 - The political duality of scale-making in environmental markets T2 - Environmental Politics N2 - New markets are key in debates concerning environmental regimes. Critics and proponents share a discourse that characterises environmental markets in terms of scale; many discuss how to scale environmental markets ‘the right way’. Building on previous work in human geography, actor–network theory, and governmentality studies, we unpack the dual but always interwoven politics of scale-making in doing environmental policies, which consists of material-semiotic practices of producing and using scales as ontologically real ordering devices. Drawing from the results of three studies conducted independently by the authors, we analyse material-semiotic scale-making practices in different ways of enacting environmental markets. By revealing the dual politics of scale production and use in environmental markets, our analysis contributes to the study of developing and implementing environmental governance. KW - Scale KW - Environmental markets KW - Carbon markets KW - Practice KW - Material semiotics KW - Governmentality Y1 - 2014 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2014.893120 SN - 1743-8934 SN - 0964-4016 VL - 23 IS - 4 SP - 632 EP - 649 ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Starczewska-Wojnar, Aleksandra A1 - Pobóg-Lenartowicz, Anna A1 - Mazur-Kulesza, Katarzyna A1 - Lis-Skupińska, Małgorzata T1 - Leksykon opolanek : tom 2 N2 - Biographies of 100 women from Opole who contributed to the city's history with their talents, skills, dedication, and knowledge, and the author hopes their stories will inspire public recognition and remembrance. KW - Opole KW - Frauenforschung KW - Geschichte KW - Oppeln Y1 - 2025 UR - https://zenodo.org/records/17273945 SN - 978-83-973797-1-8 SN - 978-83-945926-9-1 U6 - https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17273945 PB - Polskie Towarzystwo Historyczne, Oddział w Opolu CY - Opole ER -