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Jevons’ Paradox revisited: The evidence for backfire from improved energy efficiency

Steven Sorrell
- 01 Apr 2009 - 
- Vol. 37, Iss: 4, pp 1456-1469
TLDR
The evidence in favour of ''Jevons Paradox'' is far from conclusive, but it does suggest that economywide rebound effects are larger than is conventionally assumed and that energy plays a more important role in driving productivity improvements and economic growth than is conventional assumed as mentioned in this paper.
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This article is published in Energy Policy.The article was published on 2009-04-01. It has received 536 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Jevons paradox.

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What is protective space? Reconsidering niches in transitions to sustainability

TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify effective protection as having three properties in wider transition processes: shielding, nurturing and empowerment, and argue that analysis of these properties needs to be complemented with particular attention for the politics involved in their construction.
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Global Energy Assessment: Toward a Sustainable Future

TL;DR: The Global Energy Assessment (GEA) as mentioned in this paper brings together over 300 international researchers to provide an independent, scientifically based, integrated and policy-relevant analysis of current and emerging energy issues and options.
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Reducing energy demand: A review of issues, challenges and approaches

TL;DR: The authors provides an overview of the main issues and challenges associated with energy demand reduction, summarises how this challenge is framed by key academic disciplines, indicates how these can provide complementary insights for policymakers and argues that a socotechnical perspective can provide a deeper understanding of the nature of this challenge and the processes through which it can be achieved.
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Energy consumption and efficiency in buildings: current status and future trends

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present an overview of measures and policies adopted by different countries, allowing the monitoring, management and reduction of the energy consumption in buildings, based on the feedback of the early adopters.
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The Economics of Climate Change: The Stern Review

TL;DR: The Stern Review as discussed by the authors is an independent, rigourous and comprehensive analysis of the economic aspects of this crucial issue, conducted by Sir Nicholas Stern, Head of the UK Government Economic Service, and a former Chief Economist of the World Bank.
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The Rise and Fall of the Environmental Kuznets Curve

TL;DR: A critical history of the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) can be found in this article, where a new generation of decomposition and efficient frontier models can help disentangle the true relations between development and the environment and may lead to the demise of the classic EKC.
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Inflation and Economic Growth

TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of inflation on economic performance were analyzed for around 100 countries from 1960 to 1990 and it was shown that the long-term effects on standards of living are substantial.
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Energy efficiency and consumption — the rebound effect — a survey

TL;DR: In this paper, a review of some of the relevant literature from the US offers definitions and identifies sources including direct, secondary, and economy-wide sources and concludes that the range of estimates for the size of the rebound effect is very low to moderate.
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