Energy, Equity, Housing and Health

Energy Insecurity Essential Reading List

  1. Hernández, D. (2016). “Understanding ‘energy insecurity’ and why it matters to health.” Social  Science & Medicine, 167, 1-10. doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2016.08.029. 
  2. Jessel, S., Sawyer, S. and Hernandez, D. (2019) “Energy, Poverty and Health in Climate Change: A Comprehensive Review of an Emerging Literature” Frontiers in Public Health. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2019.00357 
  3. Hernández, D and Laird, Jennifer. "Disconnected: Estimating the National Prevalence of Utility Shut-offs and Related Coping Strategies" American Behavioral Scientist. 2021 
  4. Hernández, D., Siegel E. (2019) “Energy Insecurity and its Ill Health Effects: A Community  Perspective in New York City” Energy Research and Social Science. pp. 78-83 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2018.08.011 
  5. Lewis, J, Hernández, D and Geronimus, A. (2019) “Energy Efficiency as Energy Justice:  Addressing Racial Inequities through Investments in People and Places” Energy Efficiency https://doi.org/10.1007/s12053-019-09820-z    
  6. Hernández, D. (2013). Energy insecurity: A framework for understanding energy, the built environment, and health among vulnerable populations in the context of climate change. Am J Public Health, 103(4), e32-e34. doi:10.2105/AJPH.2012.301179 
  7. Hernández, D. and Bird, S. (2010), Energy Burden and the Need for Integrated Low-Income Housing and Energy Policy. Poverty & Public Policy, 2: 5–25. doi:10.2202/1944-2858.1095. 
  8. Hernández, D. (2015). Sacrifice along the energy continuum: a call for energy justice.  Environmental Justice, 8(4), 151-156. doi:10.1089/env.2015.0015.]