Towards a systemic assessment of gendered energy transition in urban households

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dc.contributor.authorMusango, Josephine Kavitien_ZA
dc.contributor.authorBassi, Andrea M.en_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2022-01-04T11:51:20Z
dc.date.available2022-01-04T11:51:20Z
dc.date.issued2021-11
dc.descriptionCITATION: Musango, J. K. & Bassi, A. M. 2021. Towards a systemic assessment of gendered energy transition in urban households. Energies, 14(21):7251, doi:10.3390/en14217251.
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dc.description.abstractAssessment of gendered energy transition at an urban scale has emerged as a challenging issue for researchers, policy makers and practitioners. With municipalities becoming players in the energy markets, their involvement raises policy issues that need to be better assessed in supporting gendered energy transition. This paper, therefore, contributes to gendered energy transition assessments at urban household level from a policy maker perspective. We developed a system dynamics model to assess the effects of urban energy policy interventions on household energy consumption and gendered measures using Drakenstein Municipality as a case study. The study used secondary data from various sources for the model parameters. We tested three hypothetical policy scenarios: the business-as-usual, the energy subsidy policy and the energy efficiency policy. The results show that understanding the changes in urban household energy consumption and gendered measures due to energy transition interventions is essential for urban policy planning. The energy subsidy policy scenario was observed to increase total energy consumption but also resulted in socio-environmental impacts that might increase inequality and impair human health. Urban household energy transition interventions need to consider a systems approach to develop decision support tools that capture the cross-sector impacts and inform the development of interventions that promote gendered household energy transition.en_ZA
dc.description.versionPublisher's version
dc.format.extent18 pages : illustrations
dc.identifier.citationMusango, J. K. & Bassi, A. M. 2021. Towards a systemic assessment of gendered energy transition in urban households. Energies, 14(21):7251, doi:10.3390/en14217251.
dc.identifier.issn1996-1073 (online)
dc.identifier.otherdoi:10.3390/en14217251
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/124039
dc.language.isoen_ZAen_ZA
dc.publisherMDPI
dc.rights.holderAuthors retain copyright
dc.subjectEnergy conservationen_ZA
dc.subjectEnergy consumptionen_ZA
dc.subjectHouseholds -- Economic aspectsen_ZA
dc.subjectHouseholds -- Energy consumptionen_ZA
dc.titleTowards a systemic assessment of gendered energy transition in urban householdsen_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA
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