Rebound effects in Living Labs: Opportunities for monitoring and mitigating re-spending and time use effects in user integrated innovation design

Buhl, Johannes; Geibler, Justus von; Echternacht, Laura; Linder, Moritz

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2017.03.001

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“…In the mobility sector, for example, increases in car efficiency can lead to increased vehicle mileage, a more energy-intensive driving style or even to the purchase of a larger or an additional car [32]. Direct rebound models assume that the savings in resources (in terms of costs or time) which result from the increase in efficiency can lead to an increase in demand for the same product [33]. As a result, the maximum possible resource saving through increased efficiency is not achieved; the direct rebound effect reduces, negates, or even exceeds the benefits of improved technological efficiency [34].…”

Section: Rebound Effects As Negative Environmental Effectsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Unintended Effects of Autonomous Driving: A Study on Mobility Preferences in the Future

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Innovations in the mobility industry such as automated and connected cars could significantly reduce congestion and emissions by allowing the traffic to flow more freely and reducing the number of vehicles according to some researchers. However, the effectiveness of these sustainable product and service innovations is often limited by unexpected changes in consumption: some researchers thus hypothesize that the higher comfort and improved quality of time in driverless cars could lead to an increase in demand for driving with autonomous vehicles. So far, there is a lack of empirical evidence supporting either one or other of these hypotheses. To analyze the influence of autonomous driving on mobility behavior and to uncover user preferences, which serve as indicators for future travel mode choices, we conducted an online survey with a paired comparison of current and future travel modes with 302 participants in Germany. The results do not confirm the hypothesis that ownership will become an outdated model in the future. Instead they suggest that private cars, whether conventional or fully automated, will remain the preferred travel mode. At the same time, carsharing will benefit from full automation more than private cars. However, the findings indicate that the growth of carsharing will mainly be at the expense of public transport, showing that more emphasis should be placed in making public transport more attractive if sustainable mobility is to be developed.

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Section: Rebound Effects As Negative Environmental Effectsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Unintended Effects of Autonomous Driving: A Study on Mobility Preferences in the Future

et al. 2018

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“…Lin and Li [21] estimated the rebound effect in China's heavy industry later on and found that the rebound effect for the heavy industry in China was about 74.3%. The energy rebound effect was also proved to exist in other sectors [22][23][24].…”

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confidence: 88%

The Energy Rebound Effect for the Construction Industry: Empirical Evidence from China

Bai

2017

Sustainability

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Abstract:As the largest energy consumer and carbon emitter, China has made substantial efforts to improve energy efficiency to save energy, while the energy rebound effect mitigates its effectiveness. This paper is based on the logical relationship among capital input, technical change, economic growth, and energy consumption, adapting an alternative estimation model to estimate the energy rebound effect for the construction industry in China. Empirical results reveal that the average energy rebound effect for the construction industry in China was about 59.5% during the period of 1990-2014. It is indicated that the energy rebound effect does exist in China's construction industry and it presents a fluctuating declining trend. This indicates that approximately half of the potential energy saving by technical change is achieved. It could be concluded that proper energy pricing reforms and energy taxes should be implemented to promote sustainable development in the construction industry for China's government.

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“…The distinction into three strategies for sustainable development -efficiency, consistency and sufficiency -presents a valuable guideline to reduce CO 2 emissions (Siebenhüner 2003). Technological innovation (i.e., efficiency) and the trend towards circular economies (i. e., consistency) are important steps to alleviate the pressure on natural resources but they often focus on relative consumption reductions and have limitations such as rebound effects (e. g., Buhl et al 2017, Becker 2019. Sufficiency aims at a total reduction of resource consumption, which is urgently needed for sustainable development (Stengel 2011).…”

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“…Moreover, future research should account for individual rebound effects of emissions-reducing interventions, particularly with regards to differences between the CO 2 footprint domains and socioeconomic factors (e. g., income, homeowners vs. tenants). Buhl et al (2017) suggest that behavioral triggers to rebound effects should be considered, which may include sufficiency attitude. Hence, future research could assess whether suffi ciency attitude has the potential to reduce rebound effects.…”

Section: Limitations and Future Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Is it up to them? Individual leverages for sufficiency

Verfuerth¹,

Henn²,

Becker³

2019

GAIA - Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society

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Sufficiency is one important strategy for sustainable development. At an individual level, we need a better understanding of the relationship between sufficiency attitude and CO2 footprint. In this paper, we analyze sufficiency as a psychological determinant of low-carbon lifestyles and introduce an empirical measurement scale for individual sufficiency attitudes.Sufficiency aims at a total reduction of resource consumption, which is urgently needed to achieve our climate and sustainable development goals. This paper explores individual attitude towards a sufficiency-oriented lifestyle as a driver of a low carbon footprint. Survey data of 310 participants was analyzed to test whether individual sufficiency attitude manifests in people’s carbon footprint. The results provide evidence for this relationship but its strength varies between behavioral domains ‐ that is, heating, electricity, food consumption, everyday mobility, air travel. Potential structural and individual barriers to reducing CO2 emissions are discussed as possible factors that could explain differences between the behavioral domains. We argue that intrapersonal factors matter for sustainable lifestyles but that policy-making and structural change should complement and facilitate voluntary endeavors to achieve low-carbon lifestyles.

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Rebound effects in Living Labs: Opportunities for monitoring and mitigating re-spending and time use effects in user integrated innovation design

Cited by 37 publications

References 24 publications

Unintended Effects of Autonomous Driving: A Study on Mobility Preferences in the Future

Unintended Effects of Autonomous Driving: A Study on Mobility Preferences in the Future

The Energy Rebound Effect for the Construction Industry: Empirical Evidence from China

Is it up to them? Individual leverages for sufficiency

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