Raúl Castaño-Rosa
Biographic Data
| ID | 4158032 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Raúl Castaño-Rosa |
| GIVEN NAMES | Raúl |
| FAMILY NAME | Castaño-Rosa |
| SIGNATURE | CASTAÑO-ROSA R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tampere University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4459-0220 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Home heating transition in Finland, Romania, Sweden and the United Kingdom through the combined lens of energy democracy, energy citizenship and energy justice
Impact of glazed balcony design on daylight in Finnish apartments
Sustainable dwellings should prioritise designs that prevent early obsolescence by supporting occupant needs, their comfort and wellbeing. This includes the provision of good indoor environmental quality and adequate and usable private spaces, including balconies. Yet, visual comfort is still overlooked, specifically in Finland, with its added balcony glazing, its northern position and Nordic climate. This study examines how different glazed balc…
Understanding how intertwined barriers and drivers shape energy community value propositions
Value propositions, the reason for investment and involvement in certain projects, play a crucial role in attracting different actor groups to get involved in Energy Community (EC) projects. However, the lack of comprehensive operational frameworks to effectively define value propositions for the adoption of EC projects and long-term feasibility makes EC to be perceived as a single-beneficiary solution overlooking its multi-sided potential. This …
Exploring diverse drivers behind hybrid heating solutions
How do individuals reflect on and relate to hybrid heating arrangements and the ‘stacking’ of heating modes in their home? Drawing on a set of oral histories (n = 110) collected in Finland, inhabitants’ long-standing engagement with versatile heating arrangements is explored. This is not a novel phenomenon but one that has evolved over time. The reasons and motivations for stacking of heating modes is situated in the themes of preparedness, therm…
Lived experiences of domestic heating transitions in Finland
Decarbonising domestic heating is central to Finland's goal of achieving carbon neutrality by 2035. While policy debates largely focus on technological change, less attention has been paid to how individuals experience and negotiate heating transitions in everyday life. This paper examines domestic heating transition in Finland through 54 oral histories collected in Finland during winter 2023. Oral histories provide a unique lens to capture long-…
Mapping Fall Risks in Home Environments
Real Estate and Sustainable Crisis Management in Urban Environments
The aim of this book is to promote the dynamic resilience of societies by identifying, analysing, and exemplifying the role of space and land use in both anticipated and unanticipated primary and secondary crisis situations. The book brings together the expertise of a unique team of researchers and methods from fields of futures studies, land use planning, social sustainability and wellbeing, architecture, spatial planning, design and real estate…
Finnish glazed balconies
Amidst sustainability challenges and in an increasingly urbanised context, housing design qualities are crucial to promote residents’ wellbeing. Despite the role balconies play in establishing connections with the surrounding environment and enhancing housing qualities, questions around how to design balconies that meet users’ needs remain under-characterised. An online survey and analysis of Finnish residents’ (n = 393) attitudes to and uses of …
The European Green Deal and its translation into action
This paper explores the extent to which the concept of justice, embedded at the core of the European Union's public communications regarding its climate goals, is regarded coherently across governance levels. What do stakeholders across governance levels understand by justice and how is this reflected in their overall perceptions regarding the just transition? We aim to make both a conceptual and an empirically informative contribution by qualita…
A framework to identify and prioritise the key sustainability indicators
Sustainability indicators (SIs) are important instruments to quantify, analyse, and communicate complex sustainability information, with a history of application in energy research. It is critical to identify an effective set of indicators which can holistically evaluate the energy systems encompassing the three facets of sustainability: environment, economy, and society. However, the literature has been lacking in either proportionally represent…
Disconnected, yet in the spotlight
Cañada Real is a 15-km informal settlement located in Madrid, Spain. With over 8000 inhabitants most dwellers live below the poverty line in informal, low-quality housing. Due to the impossibility to have legal supply contracts with utility providers, Cañada Real settlers have relied on irregular connections to nearby electricity and water distribution networks for decades. However, in October 2020, technical changes implemented by the distributi…
Resilience in the built environment
In the last decade, our built environment has been exposed to a significant and wide range of crises, from primary (e.g., pandemic, climate change-induced hazards) to secondary crises, such as their associated physical and mental health impacts. However, previous literature has mainly focused on the impacts of a single type of crisis in the built environment and solutions for individual impacts. Hence, in the face of multiple crises and their imp…
Planning energy interventions in buildings and tackling fuel poverty
Energy retrofitting and renovations are an inseparable part of decarbonisation strategies in the building sector. These measures are often tied up with several social factors that can potentially impact the wellbeing of households and the community if the end-user requirements are not carefully considered. Fuel poverty is one of these social factors that is an essential consideration for designing effective, just, and user-centred interventions, …
The critical role of trust in experiencing and coping with energy poverty
Energy poverty goes south? Understanding the costs of energy poverty with the index of vulnerable homes in Spain
Disconnected, yet in the spotlight
Cañada Real is a 15-km informal settlement located in Madrid, Spain. With over 8000 inhabitants most dwellers live below the poverty line in informal, low-quality housing. Due to the impossibility to have legal supply contracts with utility providers, Cañada Real settlers have relied on irregular connections to nearby electricity and water distribution networks for decades. However, in October 2020, technical changes implemented by the distributi…
The critical role of trust in experiencing and coping with energy poverty
The European Green Deal and its translation into action
This paper explores the extent to which the concept of justice, embedded at the core of the European Union's public communications regarding its climate goals, is regarded coherently across governance levels. What do stakeholders across governance levels understand by justice and how is this reflected in their overall perceptions regarding the just transition? We aim to make both a conceptual and an empirically informative contribution by qualita…
Energy poverty goes south? Understanding the costs of energy poverty with the index of vulnerable homes in Spain
Energy poverty goes south? Understanding the costs of energy poverty with the index of vulnerable homes in Spain
The critical role of trust in experiencing and coping with energy poverty
Resilience in the built environment
In the last decade, our built environment has been exposed to a significant and wide range of crises, from primary (e.g., pandemic, climate change-induced hazards) to secondary crises, such as their associated physical and mental health impacts. However, previous literature has mainly focused on the impacts of a single type of crisis in the built environment and solutions for individual impacts. Hence, in the face of multiple crises and their imp…
Planning energy interventions in buildings and tackling fuel poverty
Energy retrofitting and renovations are an inseparable part of decarbonisation strategies in the building sector. These measures are often tied up with several social factors that can potentially impact the wellbeing of households and the community if the end-user requirements are not carefully considered. Fuel poverty is one of these social factors that is an essential consideration for designing effective, just, and user-centred interventions, …
A framework to identify and prioritise the key sustainability indicators
Sustainability indicators (SIs) are important instruments to quantify, analyse, and communicate complex sustainability information, with a history of application in energy research. It is critical to identify an effective set of indicators which can holistically evaluate the energy systems encompassing the three facets of sustainability: environment, economy, and society. However, the literature has been lacking in either proportionally represent…
Disconnected, yet in the spotlight
Cañada Real is a 15-km informal settlement located in Madrid, Spain. With over 8000 inhabitants most dwellers live below the poverty line in informal, low-quality housing. Due to the impossibility to have legal supply contracts with utility providers, Cañada Real settlers have relied on irregular connections to nearby electricity and water distribution networks for decades. However, in October 2020, technical changes implemented by the distributi…
Real Estate and Sustainable Crisis Management in Urban Environments
The aim of this book is to promote the dynamic resilience of societies by identifying, analysing, and exemplifying the role of space and land use in both anticipated and unanticipated primary and secondary crisis situations. The book brings together the expertise of a unique team of researchers and methods from fields of futures studies, land use planning, social sustainability and wellbeing, architecture, spatial planning, design and real estate…
Finnish glazed balconies
Amidst sustainability challenges and in an increasingly urbanised context, housing design qualities are crucial to promote residents’ wellbeing. Despite the role balconies play in establishing connections with the surrounding environment and enhancing housing qualities, questions around how to design balconies that meet users’ needs remain under-characterised. An online survey and analysis of Finnish residents’ (n = 393) attitudes to and uses of …
The European Green Deal and its translation into action
This paper explores the extent to which the concept of justice, embedded at the core of the European Union's public communications regarding its climate goals, is regarded coherently across governance levels. What do stakeholders across governance levels understand by justice and how is this reflected in their overall perceptions regarding the just transition? We aim to make both a conceptual and an empirically informative contribution by qualita…
Exploring diverse drivers behind hybrid heating solutions
How do individuals reflect on and relate to hybrid heating arrangements and the ‘stacking’ of heating modes in their home? Drawing on a set of oral histories (n = 110) collected in Finland, inhabitants’ long-standing engagement with versatile heating arrangements is explored. This is not a novel phenomenon but one that has evolved over time. The reasons and motivations for stacking of heating modes is situated in the themes of preparedness, therm…
Lived experiences of domestic heating transitions in Finland
Decarbonising domestic heating is central to Finland's goal of achieving carbon neutrality by 2035. While policy debates largely focus on technological change, less attention has been paid to how individuals experience and negotiate heating transitions in everyday life. This paper examines domestic heating transition in Finland through 54 oral histories collected in Finland during winter 2023. Oral histories provide a unique lens to capture long-…
Mapping Fall Risks in Home Environments
Home heating transition in Finland, Romania, Sweden and the United Kingdom through the combined lens of energy democracy, energy citizenship and energy justice
Impact of glazed balcony design on daylight in Finnish apartments
Sustainable dwellings should prioritise designs that prevent early obsolescence by supporting occupant needs, their comfort and wellbeing. This includes the provision of good indoor environmental quality and adequate and usable private spaces, including balconies. Yet, visual comfort is still overlooked, specifically in Finland, with its added balcony glazing, its northern position and Nordic climate. This study examines how different glazed balc…
Understanding how intertwined barriers and drivers shape energy community value propositions
Value propositions, the reason for investment and involvement in certain projects, play a crucial role in attracting different actor groups to get involved in Energy Community (EC) projects. However, the lack of comprehensive operational frameworks to effectively define value propositions for the adoption of EC projects and long-term feasibility makes EC to be perceived as a single-beneficiary solution overlooking its multi-sided potential. This …
Business (7 works) · Economics (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Building Energy and Comfort Optimization (4 works) · Energy and Environment Impacts (4 works) · Poverty (4 works) · Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Economic growth (3 works) · Energy poverty (3 works)