Heat in a Cold Climate : Household Energy Choices in the Scandinavian North, 1890–1970
This article examines the timing, scale and cause of transitions between different kinds of household energy use and especially heating in northern Sweden, with a focus on Norrbotten, between the late nineteenth century and 1970. It examines the related but separate histories of the adoption of new...
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ftumeauniv:oai:DiVA.org:umu-167303 2023-10-09T21:49:01+02:00 Heat in a Cold Climate : Household Energy Choices in the Scandinavian North, 1890–1970 Warde, Paul Lindmark, Magnus 2019 application/pdf http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-167303 eng eng Umeå universitet, Centrum för miljö- och naturresursekonomi (CERE) Umeå universitet, Enheten för ekonomisk historia Faculty of History, University of Cambridge Umeå Journal of Northern Studies, 1654-5915, 2019, 3:1, s. 61-91 orcid:0000-0002-3293-2318 http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-167303 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess energy labour heating coal oil electricity environment Norrbotten Sweden Economic History Ekonomisk historia Article in journal info:eu-repo/semantics/article text 2019 ftumeauniv 2023-09-22T13:52:08Z This article examines the timing, scale and cause of transitions between different kinds of household energy use and especially heating in northern Sweden, with a focus on Norrbotten, between the late nineteenth century and 1970. It examines the related but separate histories of the adoption of new heating technologies, such as stoves and boilers, and the choice of fuels, such as firewood, coke, oil, and electricity, providing new data on the scale of consumption and timing of transition. The article demonstrates the important linkage between domestic fuel choice and labour markets, whether labour in farm and forest affecting stove use in the nineteenth century, or increased female labour participation outside the home and rising wages in the twentieth. The article goes beyond discussions of price and technology to consider the wider contexts of domestic use not only in terms of home life, but also industrial development and labour markets in northern Sweden. MISTRA Arctic Sustainable Development Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Journal of Northern Studies Mistra Arctic Northern Sweden Norrbotten Umeå University: Publications (DiVA) Arctic |
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This article examines the timing, scale and cause of transitions between different kinds of household energy use and especially heating in northern Sweden, with a focus on Norrbotten, between the late nineteenth century and 1970. It examines the related but separate histories of the adoption of new heating technologies, such as stoves and boilers, and the choice of fuels, such as firewood, coke, oil, and electricity, providing new data on the scale of consumption and timing of transition. The article demonstrates the important linkage between domestic fuel choice and labour markets, whether labour in farm and forest affecting stove use in the nineteenth century, or increased female labour participation outside the home and rising wages in the twentieth. The article goes beyond discussions of price and technology to consider the wider contexts of domestic use not only in terms of home life, but also industrial development and labour markets in northern Sweden. MISTRA Arctic Sustainable Development |
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Warde, Paul Lindmark, Magnus |
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Heat in a Cold Climate : Household Energy Choices in the Scandinavian North, 1890–1970 |
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Heat in a Cold Climate : Household Energy Choices in the Scandinavian North, 1890–1970 |
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Heat in a Cold Climate : Household Energy Choices in the Scandinavian North, 1890–1970 |
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Heat in a Cold Climate : Household Energy Choices in the Scandinavian North, 1890–1970 |
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heat in a cold climate : household energy choices in the scandinavian north, 1890–1970 |
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Umeå universitet, Centrum för miljö- och naturresursekonomi (CERE) |
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Journal of Northern Studies, 1654-5915, 2019, 3:1, s. 61-91 orcid:0000-0002-3293-2318 http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-167303 |
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