Neil Simcock is a Research Associate at the University of Manchester, UKHarriet Thomson is a Research Associate at the University of Manchester, UK.Saska Petrova is a Lecturer in the School of Environment, Education and Development at the University of Manchester, UKStefan Bouzarovski is Professor at the Department of Geography and Director of the Collaboratory for Urban Resilience and Energy at the University of Manchester, UK.

• Introduction Energy poverty in an intersectional perspective: On multiple deprivation, discriminatory systems and the effects of policies Understanding energy poverty through the energy cultures framework Transcending the triad: Political distrust, local cultural norms and reconceptualising the drivers of domestic energy poverty in the UK Post-apartheid spatial inequalities and the built environment: drivers of energy vulnerability for the urban poor in South Africa Water-energy nexus vulnerabilities in China: Infrastructures, policies, practices Rethinking energy deprivation in Athens: a spatial approach Location, location, location: What accounts for the regional variation of energy poverty in Poland? Multiple vulnerabilities? Interrogating the spatial distribution of energy poverty measures in England The triple-hit effect of disability and energy poverty: a qualitative case study of painful sickle cell disease and cold homes The value of experience: including young people in energy poverty research Energy poverty in the Western Balkans: adjusting policy responses to socio-economic drivers Lighting up rural Kenya: Lessons learnt from rural electrification programmes Urban Energy Poverty: South Africa’s policy response to the challenge Conclusions

"It is rare to find discussions of energy poverty that take a global perspective and recognise it as produced in relation to history, culture, infrastructure, energy and welfare politics, and much else. This collection has a fantastic set of chapters, examining energy poverty in a diversity of contexts, as well as critiquing existing analytical frameworks." Professor Gordon Walker, Lancaster University, UK