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Past, Present, and Future of Critical Issues in Energy: Poverty, Transition and Security—A Systematic Review

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  • Catalin Popescu

    (Business Administration Department, Faculty of Economic Sciences, Petroleum-Gas University of Ploiesti, Bd Bucuresti, No.39, 100680 Ploiesti, Romania)

  • Eglantina Hysa

    (Department of Economics, Epoka University, 1011 Tirana, Albania)

  • Mirela Panait

    (Department of Cybernetics, Economic Informatics, Finance and Accounting, Faculty of Economic Sciences, Petroleum-Gas University of Ploiesti, Bd Bucuresti, No.39, 100680 Ploiesti, Romania
    Institute of National Economy, Romanian Academy, 050711 Bucharest, Romania)

  • Arjona Çela

    (Department of Economics, Epoka University, 1011 Tirana, Albania)

Abstract

In these last decades, especially after the Russia–Ukraine war, the impact of energy related to issues, such as energy poverty, energy transition, and energy security have been heavily debated. To comprehend the conceptual development of this subject in the academic literature, few studies tackle the problems above by reviewing earlier research on the subject. Inspired by this interest and literature ago in this field, this study aimed to address the past, present, and future advancements of critical issues in this regard. Thus, in this review paper performed during February–April 2023, we employed the PRISMA method selecting and checking the review papers articles indexed in the three databases of Web of Science (WoS), Scopus, and JSTOR. Then, the research was followed by extending it and adding some other articles discovered on the gray literature. After a detailed classification of articles, a total of 2615 review articles were deemed valid for this analysis. The study’s key contributions is the classification of the some cluster themes for the metasynthesis analyses, which point to potential future directions with a special focus on governmental policies to pursue some macrolevel goals concerning energy poverty, energy transition, and energy security in our daily lives.

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  • Catalin Popescu & Eglantina Hysa & Mirela Panait & Arjona Çela, 2023. "Past, Present, and Future of Critical Issues in Energy: Poverty, Transition and Security—A Systematic Review," Energies, MDPI, vol. 16(14), pages 1-25, July.
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