Do increases in energy efficiency improve environmental quality and sustainability

By N. Hanley, P. McGregor, J. Swales, K. Turner. 2009

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Subfields: Environmental Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

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In Environmental Engineering

1. K. Turner
2. S. Honma
3. Muhammad Shahbaz
4. Jin-Li Hu
5. Volker Krey
6. Avik Sinha
7. N. Hanley
8. Thomas Broberg

In Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

1. Keywan Riahi
2. K. Turner
3. Muhammad Shahbaz
4. Volker Krey
5. Avik Sinha
6. J. Jewell
7. S. Honma
8. David McCollum

Citations in the corpus

• Negative rebound and disinvestment effects in response to an improvement in energy efficiency in the UK economy (2009, methodology): “Following Hanley et al (2009) and Turner (2008), we begin by distinguishing between energy measured in natural or physical units, E, and efficiency units, i (i.e. the effective energy service delivered).”
• Total-factor energy productivity growth of regions in Japan (2009, methodology): “This is called the rebound effect which was first suggested by W.S. Jevons in 1865; however, this effect still remains debatable (recently, e.g., Hanley et al., 2009).”
• Energy efficiency, rebound effects and the environmental Kuznets Curve (2011, methodology): “Sectoral breakdown of the 1999 AMOSENVI model IOC 1 AGRICULTURE 1 2 FORESTRY PLANTING AND LOGGING 2.1, 2.2 3 FISHING 3.1 4 FISH FARMING 3.2 5 Other mining and quarrying 6,7 6 Oil and gas extraction 5 7 Mfr food, drink and tobacco 8 to 20 8 Mfr textiles and clothing 21 to 30 9 Mfr chemicals etc 36 to”
• Energy Conservation More Effective With Rebound Policy (2011, background): “Current empirical research cannot settle this entirely, even though methodologically rigorous studies have estimated backfire for particular cases (e.g., Hanley et al. 2009 ).”
• Energy Sustainability: A Pragmatic Approach and Illustrations (2009, background): “Such rebound effects have led some to question the degree to which efficiency can improve environmental quality and facilitate sustainability [32].”
• Energy Efficiency: Economics and Policy (2010, background): “Joskow and Marron (1992) found a significant amount of free-riding in their analysis of utility-based ECE programs in the US, and Hassett and Metcalf (1995) detected that most of the subsidies for energy conservation were received by households that would have invested anyway.”
• Energy efficiency and economy-wide rebound effects: A review of the evidence and its implications (2021, background): “[78] Scotland Dynamic 5% in all production sectors Elec = 131%;”
• The economy-wide rebound effect from improved energy efficiency in Swedish industries–A general equilibrium analysis (2015, methodology): “The sensitivity of the results is somewhat lower, but still in line with the findings in Allan et al. (2007), but more significant than that found in Hanley et al. (2009).7 5 Note that the increase in energy efficiency only applies to the fuels modelled in the EMEC model.”
• Estimation of Environmental Kuznets Curve for CO2 emission: Role of renewable energy generation in India (2018, result): “Whereas most of the researchers are of the opinion that the technological advancement can poss ibly bring forth positive environmental effects ([44], [3], [45]), our results contradict t he earlier findings, at least in Indian context.”
• Energy Pathways for Sustainable Development (2012, background): “It should be noted, however, that efficiency improvements can be offset by both rebound effects and scale effects (Greening et al., 2000 ; Birol and Keppler, 2000 ; Hanley et al., 2009 ).”