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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, an extension of the waste input-output (WIO) model to analyze households' sustainable consumption patterns is presented, which can deal with the disposal stage of consumed goods as well as the purchase and use stages.
Abstract: Summary
The extension of the waste input-output (WIO) model to analyze households' sustainable consumption patterns is presented in this article. We estimate direct and indirect emission loads induced by household consumption by the WIO model. The WIO model is much more suitable for the analysis of sustainable consumption than the conventional input-output model because it can deal with the disposal stage of consumed goods as well as the purchase and use stages. A simple method for evaluating income rebound effects is also introduced. As indicators of environmental loads, we estimate carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and landfill consumption induced by household consumption. The model is applied to some typical sustainable consumption scenarios: shifting transportation modes from a private car to public transportation, the longer use of household electric appliances, and eating at restaurants instead of cooking at home. We found that the income rebound effects should be considered to evaluate environmental loads induced by different consumption patterns.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated two kinds of direct rebound effects that could possibly occur when buying hybrid cars: (i) people could tend to switch from small and/or already fuel-efficient cars to the new hybrid car, and (ii) the average vehicle ownership could increase, if the hybrid car is often purchased without disposing of an already owned vehicle.
111 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that Filippini and Hunt's model implicitly imposes a zero rebound effect, which contradicts most of the available empirical evidence on this issue, and they relax this restrictive assumption through the modelling of a rebound-effect function that mitigates or intensifies the effect of an efficiency improvement on energy consumption.
111 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that price differences and the consequent effects of marginal consumer expenditure may influence the conclusions of comparative LCA significantly, and they also show that considerations about rebound effects of price differences can be included in LCAs.
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Traditionally, comparative life cycle assessments (LCA) have not considered rebound effects, for instance in case of significant price differences among the compared products. No justifications have been made for this delimitation in scope. This article shows that price differences and the consequent effects of marginal consumer expenditure may influence the conclusions of comparative LCA significantly. We also show that considerations about rebound effects of price differences can be included in LCAs.
110 citations
TL;DR: This paper developed a generalized model to highlight features of the theory of the microeconomic rebound effect that are particularly relevant to empirical economists and formally derived the welfare implications of the rebound effect to provide clarity for ongoing policy debates about the rebound.
Abstract: Economists have long noted that improving energy efficiency could lead to a rebound effect, reducing or possibly even eliminating the energy savings from the efficiency improvement. This paper develops a generalized model to highlight features of the theory of the microeconomic rebound effect that are particularly relevant to empirical economists. We demonstrate when common elasticity identities used for empirical estimation are biased and how gross complement and substitute relationships govern this bias. Furthermore, we formally derive the welfare implications of the rebound effect to provide clarity for ongoing policy debates about the rebound.
110 citations