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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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01 Sep 2011
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the concepts of price elasticities and rebound effects, reviews information on vehicle travel and fuel price elasticity, examines evidence of changing price sensitivity, and discusses policy implications.
Abstract: There is growing interest in transportation pricing reforms to help achieve objectives such as congestion reductions, traffic safety and emission reductions. Their effectiveness is affected by the price sensitivity of transport, that is, the degree that travelers respond to price changes, measured as elasticities (the percentage change in vehicle travel caused by a percentage change in price). Lower elasticities (price changes have little impact on travel activity) imply that price reforms are not very effective at achieving objectives, higher prices significantly harm consumers, and rebound effects (additional vehicle travel caused by increased fuel efficiency) are small so strategies that increase vehicle fuel efficiency are relatively effective at conserving fuel. Higher elasticities imply that price reforms are relatively effective, consumers are able to reduce vehicle travel, and rebound effects are relatively large. Some studies found that price elasticities declined during the last quarter of the Twentieth Century but recent evidence suggests that transport is becoming more price sensitive. This report discusses the concepts of price elasticities and rebound effects, reviews information on vehicle travel and fuel price elasticities, examines evidence of changing price elasticities, and discusses policy implications. Changing Vehicle Travel Price Sensitivities Victoria Transport Policy Institute
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated whether technological improvement might also reduce behaviorally motivated mitigation of environmental damage, and they found evidence consistent with moral licensing, which is strongest among subjects with a higher degree of pro-environmental attitudes and beliefs.
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TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper measured the energy rebound effect of China's metallurgical industry from the substitution and output channels and investigated whether improving energy efficiency can promote energy saving, which can take both technological progress and energy utilization efficiency into account.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors assessed the environmental rebound effect in the household sector from increased shares of wind power into the Colombian power grid, across six environmental impacts and for the period 2020-2030.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a framework incorporating three input factors (i.e., capital, labor and energy) of neoclassical product functions based on a brief review of related economic literature.
Abstract: Rebound effect is an important issue in energy economics having received much attention in that the rebound effect of energy consumption directly affects the effectiveness of energy policies According to a universally accepted economic view, the rebound effect determines the pure efficiency effect Energy consumption would continue to grow even if energy efficiency is improved under the condition of the efficiency elasticity of energy demand being higher than 1 The rebound effect shows varying definitions in the energy economics literature Most studies are only related to theoretical issues, showing less regarding analysis and estimation of the size of the potential rebound effects On the other hand, most of empirical studies are associated merely with the residential sector or fuel consumption for transportation purposes, lacking empirical tests of the industrial sector By adopting a thermodynamic point of view, this paper presents a framework incorporating three input factors (ie, capital, labor and energy) of neoclassical product functions based on a brief review of related economic literature Data of energy, economy and capital of industrial sectors in China during the period 1978-2007, the widely used econometric methods, as well as a ridge regression model were jointly utilized to estimate the contribution of technological progress in the industrial sectors in China The size of rebound effect based on technological progress during the period 1979-2007 was subsequently calculated Results show that the average size of rebound effect in the study period was roughly 4638%, showing a generally decreasing trend with certain fluctuations This indicates that improving the technological level of energy consumption is gradually becoming a critical tool to effectively utilize and reserve energy Technological progress plays a role in improving energy efficiency; however, the expected goal of energy saving has not realized in the industrial sectors but displays a promising energy saving trend in the long term The policy implications are that a sole emphasis on technological progress to improve energy utilization efficiency would not necessarily result in achieving the goal of energy consumption reduction or thoroughly solving problems of energy constraints As such, it seems to be critical to reinforcing appropriate governmental regulations in the energy field In the meanwhile, the expansion of economic scale in industrial sectors should be appropriately controlled, following the macro-control policies such as proper energy price policy and tax policy in order to achieve the expected goal of energy saving
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