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Rebound effect (conservation)
About: Rebound effect (conservation) is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 773 publications have been published within this topic receiving 25741 citations.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate the rebound effect of a 10% energy efficiency improvement in the provision of private transport services by German households, taking into account that household behaviour may be inversely influenced by habits.
Abstract: We investigate the rebound effect of a 10% energy efficiency improvement in
the provision of private transport services by German households. In the process,
we take into account that household behaviour may be in
uenced by habits, build
on a detailed representation of the provision of private transport services, and disentangle
the direct and indirect rebound effect. Our analysis shows that rebound
has the potential to significantly reduce the expected energy savings of an energy
efficiency improvement at households. In particular if households have a
exible
demand structure, rebound can erode large parts of efficiency increases. Household
habits have an initial detrimental effect on rebound. They limit the ability of households
to adapt to changes in the prevailing price and income system and therewith
temporally block parts of the channels that lead to rebound. In the long run, however,
if habits are formed on the basis of historic consumption, habits do not affect
rebound. In isolation, the direct and indirect rebound effect of the efficiency shock
are positive, but direct rebound is much stronger.
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TL;DR: In this paper , a dynamic spatial Durbin model was constructed to explore the impact of logistics technological innovation on carbon emissions, and determine whether there is a rebound effect, and its spatial-temporal characteristics were analyzed.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide a model about the hypothesis that the expectations related to the effects that efficiency gains have on energy and resource consumption may exacerbate the rebound effect and that they prevent alternative strategies, that may turn out to be more effective in reducing energy consumption and resource use, to be enacted.
Abstract: Studies of the phenomena known as the ‘rebound effect’, ‘backfire’ and the ‘Jevons Paradox’ have cast doubt on the effectiveness, in terms of reduction of energy use, of measures based on efficiency gains. Some of them have shown that efficiency improvements are less effective than expected, others have lent strength to the hypothesis that efficiency improvements are counterproductive in the long run. The difference between the two groups is thus all but negligible. Moreover, it is of considerable pragmatic significance as it may undermine the foundations of solid expectations that had led to ongoing systems and repertoires of action. In this paper we provide a model about the hypothesis that the expectations related to the effects that efficiency gains have on energy and resource consumption may exacerbate the rebound effect and that they prevent alternative strategies, that may turn out to be more effective in reducing energy and resource use, to be enacted. In the concluding paragraph, we propose possibilities for further hypothesis and empirical research that could lead to the refinement of the model.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the effect of the rebound effect on energy consumption in Australia and found that low-income households and households with vulnerable members have the largest rebound effects.
Abstract: Reducing dependence on fossil fuels by decreasing energy consumption is a common environmental policy. One mechanism used to achieve this is to encourage increased energy efficiency. However, improving efficiency may have an opposing effect and cause an increase in energy consumption if the intensity of use changes. This phenomenon is known as the rebound effect. We estimate direct rebound effects for energy use in Australia based on both aggregate residential energy use data and on household energy expenditure data. Our approach implements a new methodology developed by Hunt and Ryan (2014, Catching on the rebound: Why price elasticities are generally inappropriate measures of rebound effects. Surrey Energy Economics Discussion Paper Series SEEDS 148; 2015, Energy Economics 50, 273) that explicitly relates energy service use with energy source demand and directly incorporates measures of efficiency changes. The results indicate that the rebound effect is relatively high for energy use by Australian households. Due to the unique nature of our household data set, we can examine the influence of demographic and housing characteristics. We find that low-income households and households with vulnerable members have the largest rebound effects. The relatively large rebound effects found here suggest that consumers gain from efficiency by improved energy services, and thus, policy targeting energy efficiency is not likely to be successful at reducing energy consumption.
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01 Aug 2022
TL;DR: In this article , the authors empirically estimated a ten-year rebound following ongoing policy measures targeting consumers in Israel, in a research setting highly suitable for disentangling the complex effects affecting distance traveled and the demand for energy efficiency of cars.
Abstract: Regulating the production and incentivizing the purchase of energy-efficient cars has long been a primary policy recommendation to curb the world's ever-increasing energy usage. However, as cars become increasingly energy efficient, the cost of using them decreases, and cheaper usage costs provide a strong economic motivation to increase the usage of these cars. A rich body of literature examining this ‘rebound effect’ under the fuel efficiency standards regulating manufacturers (e.g., CAFE) has largely concluded that the effect diminishes over time. However, research on policies targeting consumers remains limited, and the magnitude and trend over time of a rebound associated with such policies remain unclear. We empirically estimated a ten-year rebound following ongoing policy measures targeting consumers in Israel, in a research setting highly suitable for disentangling the complex effects affecting distance traveled and the demand for energy efficiency of cars. The empirical results indicated a fairly large rebound effect of 62% emerging shortly after the initial introduction of the policy. Unexpectedly, this rebound effect gradually intensified over time, reaching the point at which all potential energy savings were lost to increased driving.
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