Indirect rebound effects on the consumer level: A state-of-the-art literature review

Investigating Energy Use in a City District in Nordic Climate Using Energy Signature

“…We have also not investigated potential influence of well-known rebound effects, concerning additional impacts of behavioural effects on the practical outcomes of energy renovation measures [69,70]. Increasing indoor temperature is a rebound effect that has been widely reported, which reduces the benefit of energy renovation [71][72][73].…”

Moral-psychological mechanisms of rebound effects from a consumer-centered perspective: A conceptualization and research directions

“…The concept of moral licensing (Merritt et al, 2010;Mullen and Monin, 2016) has recently emerged as a promising theoretical foundation for the moral-psychological mechanisms. Calls become louder to apply this theory to shed light on the relationship between consumers' initial moral actions and their subsequent behavioral adjustments that attenuate the potential greenhouse gas emission savings (Dütschke et al, 2018;Sorrell et al, 2020;Reimers et al, 2021). We claim that moral licensing theory can also help explain inconsistent behavioral consumption patterns across different product categories and consumption contexts.…”

“…In this article, we focus explicitly on rebound effects on the single consumer level. These rebounds occur when consumers' realized greenhouse gas emission savings caused by behaviors that might be beneficial to the environment, such as saving of conventional energy (e.g., through technical improvements) or the abandonment of harmful consumption (e.g., meat consumption), are lower than their potential greenhouse gas emission savings because the savings are partially or fully offset or even overcompensated by behavioral adjustments that are relatively detrimental to the environment (e.g., Reimers et al, 2021). 2 1 Macroeconomic rebound effects refer to analyzing computable general equilibrium effects, whereas microeconomic rebound effects refer to analyzing partial equilibrium effects.…”

“…2 Past research has analyzed rebound effects with respect to different impact measures, such as energy, greenhouse gas emissions, or water consumption (for an overview see Reimers et al, 2021). In the context of greenhouse gas emission, some researchers also differentiate between Previous studies have intensively researched the economic mechanisms that lead to rebound effects on the consumer level (e.g., Sorrell et al, 2009Sorrell et al, , 2018Sorrell, 2012;Azevedo, 2014;Font Vivanco et al, 2018).…”

“…Moral-psychological mechanisms can, however, also stimulate rebound effects on the consumer level. However, as outlined by the few exceptions of conceptual papers that started discussing these effects (e.g., Dütschke et al, 2018Dütschke et al, , 2021Sorrell et al, 2020;Reimers et al, 2021), these effects have thus far been largely ignored in empirical research. The concept of moral licensing (Merritt et al, 2010;Mullen and Monin, 2016) has recently emerged as a promising theoretical foundation for the moral-psychological mechanisms.…”