Housing quality is essential for population health and broader well-being. The World Health
Organization Housing and health guidelines highlight interventions that protect occupants …

Background The well established links between poor housing and poor health indicate that
housing improvement may be an important mechanism through which public investment can …

Co-benefits rarely enter quantitative decision-support frameworks, often because the
methodologies for their integration are lacking or not known. This review fills in this gap by …

About a quarter of New Zealand households are estimated to be in fuel poverty. NZ has a
poor history of housing regulation, so existing houses are often poorly insulated and rental …

Energy efficiency in the home is a major concern for households, governments and various
non-government organisations. Energy efficiency has implications beyond usage and costs …

Energy poverty in developing countries is primarily a problem of adequate physical access
to clean and modern energy; whereas energy poverty in developed countries is rather an …

This paper presents a review of the environmental impacts of most heating systems drawing
together published literature on the subject, not previously available. Here, a comparison …

It is widely accepted that interventions designed to promote household energy efficiency,
like insulation, central heating and double glazing, can help to reduce cold-related illnesses …

Household energy services account for a large percentage of global final energy use and of
carbon emission reduction potentials. Phasing out solid fuels is expected to contribute to the …

Policy and decision makers, economists and engineers often have to choose between new-
energy-generation installations for producing additional energy or reducing the energy …