A consumption-based approach to environmental Kuznets curves using the ecological footprint indicator

Bagliani, Marco Maria; Bravo, Giangiacomo; Dalmazzone, Silvana

doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2008.01.010

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“…Ghertner and Fripp (2007) estimate that 8% of greenhouse gas emissions generated by consumption in the United States was produced abroad, while Nijdam et al (2005) estimates that 49% of greenhouse gas emissions from Dutch consumption occur abroad. An example of using this type of consumption-based approach to examine the validity of the EKC is Bagliani et al (2008). Using LCA data they attempt to find an EKC for an environmental footprint indicator but find no evidence of de-linking.…”

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The Remarkable Environmental Rebound Effect of Electric Cars: A Microeconomic Approach

Vivanco

Freire‐González

Kemp

et al. 2014

Environ. Sci. Technol.

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The main objective of the thesis is to seek insights into the theory, and provide empirical evidence of rebound effects. Rebound effects reduce the environmental benefits of environmental policies and household behaviour changes. In particular, win-win demand side measures, in the form of energy efficiency and household consumption pattern changes, are seen as ways for households and businesses to save money and the environment. However, these savings have environmental impacts when spent, which are known as rebound effects. This is an area that has been widely neglected by policy makers.This work extends the rebound effect literature in three important ways, (1) it incorporates the potential for variation of rebound effects with household income level, (2) it enables the isolation of direct and indirect effects for cases of energy efficient technology adoption, and examines the relationship between these two component effects, and (3) it expands the scope of rebound effect analysis to include government taxes and subsidies. MACROBUTTON HTMLDirectUsing a case study approach it is found that the rebound effect from household consumption pattern changes targeted at electricity is between 5 and 10%. For consumption pattern changes with reduced vehicle fuel use, the rebound effect is in the order of 20 to 30%. Higher income households in general are found to have a lower total rebound effect; however the indirect effect becomes relatively more significant at higher household income levels. In the win-lose case of domestic photovoltaic electricity generation, it is demonstrated that negative rebound effects can occur, which can potentially amplify the environmental benefits of this action.The rebound effect from a carbon tax, which occurs due to the re-spending of raised revenues, was found to be in the range of 11-32%. Taxes and transfers between households of different income levels also have environmental implications. For example, a more progressive tax structure, with increased low income welfare payments is likely to increase greenhouse gas emissions. Subsidies aimed at encouraging environmentally friendly consumption habits are also subject to rebound effects, as they constitute a substitution of government expenditure for household expenditure. For policy makers, these findings point to the need to incorporate rebound effects in the environmental policy evaluation process.' KeywordsRebound effect, demand side management, direct rebound effect, indirect rebound effect, greenhouse gas emissions, CO 2 , household consumption patterns, efficiency, energy, conservation, natural resources. The energy and emissions produced at other stages of the production chain outside of the household scope. vi List of Tables and +/-is efficiency net effect minus the conservation net effect with negative values in parentheses). 66 Table 5.5: Rebound effects at mean and median total expenditure levels for separated fuel efficiency case (indirect reduction is the efficiency indirect rebound minus the conservation indir...

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Section: Contribution To the Economy-environment Debatementioning

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The Remarkable Environmental Rebound Effect of Electric Cars: A Microeconomic Approach

Vivanco

Freire‐González

Kemp

et al. 2014

Environ. Sci. Technol.

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“…On the other hand, there are some studies that conflict with the EKC hypothesis for CO2 emission, such as Roberts and Grimes (1997), Dijkgraaf and Vollebergh (2005), Galeotti et al (2006) and for sulfur emission, such as Perman and Stern (2003), Stern and Common (2001). Besides these, Bagliani et al (2008) use ecological footprint (EF) as an environmental indicator and examine the relationship between EF and GDP. According to their results, EF has a monotonically increasing relationship with GDP.…”

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The role of foreign direct investment and trade on carbon emissions in Turkey

Kaya

Kayalica

Kumaş

et al. 2017

Environmental Economics

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This study aims to observe the long run and short run effects of gross domestic product, foreign direct investment inflows and trade on CO2 emissions and causality relationships between these factors, using annual data for the period of 1974-2010. The empirical results demonstrate that the inverted U-shaped relationship of environmental Kuznets curve is valid for Turkey. In addition, there are positive long run effects of foreign direct investment and trade openness on CO2 emissions. The authors also find a bidirectional causality relationship between CO2 emission and FDI.

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“…EF is a consumption-based indicator, and it includes all the natural capital that is directly or indirectly used or consumed by the local population. In this accounting approach, an important element is represented by the calculation of biological capacity (BC), which is sometimes referred to as biocapacity [14]. BC is used to measure the existing biologically productive area capable of regenerating in the form of fiber, food, and timber, and also providing carbon dioxide sequestration.…”

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Ecological Footprint Analysis Based on Changing Food Consumption in a Poorly Developed Area of China

Zhen

2017

Sustainability

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Abstract:The per capita ecological footprint (EF) is a useful tool to compare consumption with nature's ability to support this consumption. Guyuan is an economically impoverished region in China, where EF provides important insights into whether human consumption can be sustained by the local per capita biological capacity (BC), which represents the environment's ability to support resource use. We estimated the EF of food consumption using local equivalence and yield factors, and compared EF in 1998 and 2013 with BC, which represented the existing biologically productive area (including cultivated land, grassland, forest, and water bodies) that supports this consumption. Data were collected from household surveys, government statistics, and land use maps. We found that food consumption changed, with decreasing consumption of staple foods and increasing consumption of meat, eggs, milk, edible oils, fruit, and vegetables. Decreased staple food consumption decreased the EF for this food group, but the large increase in meat consumption greatly increased EF from meat production (to more than 41 times the 1998 value). Cultivated land contributed greatly to both EF and BC, and staple foods and vegetables were the main EF components for this land. Overall, EF from food consumption decreased from 1998 to 2013, but local BC remained 188,356 ha below EF (i.e., current consumption is not sustainable based on local resources). The Grain for Green program, which focuses on increasing the BC of forest and grassland by replacing degraded cultivated land with these land use types, decreased the BC of cultivated land, leading to wide spatial variation in both EF and BC. These results will inform policy development by revealing the condition of each region's use of the locally available production resources.

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A consumption-based approach to environmental Kuznets curves using the ecological footprint indicator

Cited by 218 publications

References 47 publications

The Remarkable Environmental Rebound Effect of Electric Cars: A Microeconomic Approach

The Remarkable Environmental Rebound Effect of Electric Cars: A Microeconomic Approach

The role of foreign direct investment and trade on carbon emissions in Turkey

Ecological Footprint Analysis Based on Changing Food Consumption in a Poorly Developed Area of China

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