Energy Efficiency and Sustainable Consumption: The Rebound Effect (Energy, Climate and the Environment)

This Book Challenges Conventional Wisdom By Showing How, In Some Circumstances, Improved Energy Efficiency May Increase Energy Consumption. Relying Upon Energy Efficiency To Reduce Carbon Emissions Could Therefore Be Misguided. This Book Explores The Broader Implications For Climate Change And Sustainable Consumption. The Evidence For Direct Rebound Effects / Steve Sorrell -- Fuel Efficiency And Automobile Travel In Germany : Don't Forget The Rebound Effect! / Manuel Frondel, Jörg Peters And Colin Vance -- Modelling The Economy-wide Rebound Effect / Grant Allan [and Others] -- Specifying Technology For Analysing Rebound / Harry D. Saunders -- Energy Efficiency And Economic Growth : The 'rebound Effect' As A Driver / Robert U. Ayres And Benjamin Warr -- Exploring Jevons' Paradox / Steve Sorrell -- Time-use Rebound Effects : An Activity-based View Of Consumption / Mikko Jalas -- Rebound And Rational Public Policy-making / Roger Levett -- Avoiding Rebound Through A Steady-state Economy / Jørgen S. Nørgård -- Sufficiency And The Rebound Effect / Horace Herring. Edited By Horace Herring And Steve Sorrell. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.