Sufficiency or efficiency to achieve lower resource consumption and emissions? The role of the rebound effect
By Frank Figge, W. Young, Ralph Barkemeyer. 2014
182 citations recorded by the source corpus.
A frequent criticism of eco-efficiency strategies is that an increase in efficiency can be offset by the rebound effect. Sufficiency is discussed as a new strategy involving self-imposed restriction of consumption but can also be subject to the rebound effect. We show that the range of possible secondary effects of efficiency and sufficiency strategies goes beyond the rebound effect. The rebound effect can indeed also be linked to eco-sufficiency strategies but there are further secondary effects of both eco-efficiency and eco-sufficiency strategies, such as double dividend effects. We develop an ‘Eco-efficiency-sufficiency matrix’ to logically order eco-efficiency and sufficiency measures to attain lower resource consumption and emissions.
Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Environmental Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/45bb48bb7d7d233836f5b074e86b6a2f66bf7ccc
How researchers see this paper
The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.
In Economics and Econometrics
In Environmental Engineering
In Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
Citations in the corpus
- Toward a Resource‐Efficient Built Environment: A Literature Review and Conceptual Model (2017, background): “However, efficiency may lead to the “rebound effect,” with cheaper goods leading to even more consumption of nonrenewable resources (Figge et al. 2014).”