Meeting housing needs within planetary boundaries: A UK case study

IF 6.6 2区经济学 Q1 ECOLOGY

Ecological Economics Pub Date : 2024-12-27 DOI:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2024.108510

Stefan Horn , Ian Gough , Charlotte Rogers , Rebecca Tunstall

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Abstract

This paper addresses a neglected aspect of the UK housing crisis: how to rapidly but fairly decarbonise the housing stock to meet tough net zero targets while meeting housing needs of the entire population. To do so the authors adopt a radical approach based on sufficiency. The sufficiency approach is based on determining both a housing floor – a decent minimum standard for all – and a housing ceiling - above which lies unsustainable excess. The authors define these thresholds in terms of bedrooms and floorspace and analyse the distribution of housing in England. They find that excess housing is widespread, concentrated in home ownership, particularly outright ownership, and characterised by above average emissions per square metre. They conclude that current policies based solely on energy efficiency and increasing housing supply cannot achieve agreed decarbonisation goals while securing decent accommodation for those who are housing deprived. To do this will require policies that distinguish between sufficient and excess housing to make more effective use of the housing stock to meet housing needs within planetary boundaries.

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在地球边界内满足住房需求：一个英国案例研究

本文解决了英国住房危机中被忽视的一个方面：如何迅速而公平地使住房存量脱碳，以满足严格的净零目标，同时满足全体人口的住房需求。为此，作者采用了一种基于充分性的激进方法。“充足”方法的基础是，确定住房下限——对所有人来说都是一个体面的最低标准——和住房上限——高于这个上限的是不可持续的过剩。作者根据卧室和建筑面积定义了这些阈值，并分析了英格兰的住房分布。他们发现，住房过剩是普遍存在的，集中在住房所有权，尤其是直接所有权，其特点是每平方米的排放量高于平均水平。他们得出的结论是，目前的政策仅仅基于能源效率和增加住房供应，无法实现商定的脱碳目标，同时为那些没有住房的人提供体面的住房。要做到这一点，就需要区分住房充足和过剩的政策，以便更有效地利用住房存量，满足地球范围内的住房需求。

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Ecological Economics 环境科学-环境科学

CiteScore

12.00

自引率

5.70%

发文量

313

审稿时长

6 months

期刊介绍： Ecological Economics is concerned with extending and integrating the understanding of the interfaces and interplay between "nature''s household" (ecosystems) and "humanity''s household" (the economy). Ecological economics is an interdisciplinary field defined by a set of concrete problems or challenges related to governing economic activity in a way that promotes human well-being, sustainability, and justice. The journal thus emphasizes critical work that draws on and integrates elements of ecological science, economics, and the analysis of values, behaviors, cultural practices, institutional structures, and societal dynamics. The journal is transdisciplinary in spirit and methodologically open, drawing on the insights offered by a variety of intellectual traditions, and appealing to a diverse readership. Specific research areas covered include: valuation of natural resources, sustainable agriculture and development, ecologically integrated technology, integrated ecologic-economic modelling at scales from local to regional to global, implications of thermodynamics for economics and ecology, renewable resource management and conservation, critical assessments of the basic assumptions underlying current economic and ecological paradigms and the implications of alternative assumptions, economic and ecological consequences of genetically engineered organisms, and gene pool inventory and management, alternative principles for valuing natural wealth, integrating natural resources and environmental services into national income and wealth accounts, methods of implementing efficient environmental policies, case studies of economic-ecologic conflict or harmony, etc. New issues in this area are rapidly emerging and will find a ready forum in Ecological Economics.