caa a22 4500 397524382 CHVBK 20180308164641.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161202e19951101xx s 000 0 eng 10.2307/3097042 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)oxford-10.2307/3097042 Ceremonial Equity: Low-Income Energy Assistance and the Failure of Socio-Environmental Policy [Elektronische Daten] [Lorie Higgins, Loren Lutzenhiser] In an era of declining natural resources and rising consumption, environmental equity is emerging as an increasingly important social problem. This paper considers the limitations of contemporary policymaking designed to mitigate environmental inequalities. We critically examine the history of low-income energy assistance (the federal Low Income Weatherization and Low Income Home Energy Assistance Programs) — the largest such effort in the United States to date — and explore the sources of decline and eventual transformation of these initiatives into largely symbolic adjuncts to state social welfare systems. Persistent inequalities in the distribution of energy assistance benefits are explored, and we use a series of CHAID models to analyze access routes to residual program benefits. Implications of the energy assistance case for other large-scale environmental equity efforts are considered. Suggestions are also offered for a more ecologically oriented and community-based approach to energy equity — one grounded in the realities of stratified environmental relations, better integrated with other social and environmental policies, and more clearly oriented toward the sustainability of natural and social systems. © 1995 Society for the Study of Social Problems, Inc. Politics and Social Movements nationallicence Higgins Lorie Washington State University aut Lutzenhiser Loren Washington State University aut Social Problems Oxford University Press 42/4(1995-11-01), 468-492 0037-7791 42:4<468 1995 42 socpro https://doi.org/10.2307/3097042 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.2307/3097042 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Higgins Lorie Washington State University aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Lutzenhiser Loren Washington State University aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Social Problems Oxford University Press 42/4(1995-11-01), 468-492 0037-7791 42:4<468 1995 42 socpro Metadata rights reserved CC BY-NC-4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-oxford