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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 paper, the authors analyzed how endogenous road capacity, in terms of an increase in road accessibility and traffic demand, and exogenous efficiency policies and technological progress, affect fuel consumption and thereby exhaust emission.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that if rebound effects are very high, efficiency strategies cannot contribute substantially to sustainable development but may be the cause of environmental problems rather than the solution, and the attractiveness of efficiency improvements, of technological solutions to environmental problems is obvious since they allow continuing with "business as usual" avoiding other measures which may be perceived as welfare reductions.
Abstract: Improvements in resource efficiency1 are important for sustainable development but only if second round effects, i.e. economic responses to higher resource productivity – so called rebound effects – are not compensating or even overcompensating the potential savings of resources thus made possible. Are efficiency improvements in the use of natural resources the key for a sustainable development, are they the solution to environmental problems, or will rebound effects compensate or even overcompensate potential savings, will they fire back? The attractiveness of efficiency improvements, of technological solutions to environmental problems is obvious since they allow continuing with “business as usual” avoiding other measures which may be perceived as welfare reductions. But if rebound effects are very high, efficiency strategies cannot contribute substantially to sustainable development but may – as some authors argue – be the cause of environmental problems rather than the solution.
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TL;DR: Based on data from China family panel studies over the period 2010-2018, this paper measured the energy efficiency and direct rebound effect of residential electricity consumption by using the stochastic energy demand frontier model.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the phenomenon of rebound effects in relation to a transition to a Circular Economy (CE) through qualitative inquiry and found that very low awareness of this effect amongst key stakeholders, and the identification of specific and general instances of rebound effect in the investigated industry.
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TL;DR: In this article, an emerging market for cleaned coal is studied within a CGE model for China, and the macro approach catches the repercussions of coal cleaning through increased energy efficiency, lower coal transportation costs and crowding out effect of investments in coal washing plants.
Abstract: China is a dominant energy consumer in a global context and current energy forecasts emphasise that China's future energy consumption also will rely heavily on coal. The coal use is the major source of the greenhouse gas CO2 and particles causing serious health damage. This paper looks into the question if coal washing might work as low cost strategy for both CO2 and particle emission reductions. Coal washing removes dirt and rock from raw coal, resulting in a coal product with higher thermal energy and less air pollutants. Coal cleaning capacity has so far not been developed in line with the market potential. In this paper an emerging market for cleaned coal is studied within a CGE model for China. The macro approach catches the repercussions of coal cleaning through increased energy efficiency, lower coal transportation costs and crowding out effect of investments in coal washing plants. Coal cleaning stimulates economic growth and reduces particle emissions, but total energy use, coal use and CO2 emissions increase through a rebound effect supported by the vast reserve of underemployed labourers. A carbon tax on fossil fuel combustion has a limited effect on total emissions. The reason is a coal leakage to tax exempted processing industries.
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