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2011 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
13. How to Reduce the Rebound Effect?
verfasst von : Wolfgang Irrek
Erschienen in: International Economics of Resource Efficiency
Verlag: Physica-Verlag HD
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Abstract
There are different definitions of the rebound effect that depend on the definition of resource efficiency or energy efficiency and on the boundaries drawn (cf., e.g., Hertwich 2005; Schettkat 2009). For the purpose of this paper, the following definition is applied: If the use of an environmentally, socially or economically more efficient good (e.g., an infrastructure that enables an increase in resource efficiency or allows people to save time, or a product or service that is resource-efficient and saves costs of consumers) induces effects that partly or even fully compensate the ecological, social or economic efficiency gains achieved by this good, this can be called a rebound effect. So there is a link between using the good and the side effects observed. In other words, general economic innovation and growth effects should not be called rebound effects following this definition.