2017
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2017.06.050
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The influence of energy efficiency on other natural resources use: An input-output perspective

Abstract: Energy efficiency improvements reduce the costs of energy services, and under some circumstances, increase the available income. This generates an additional increase of consumption of goods and services that need additional energy to be produced, distributed and consumed. This effect is known as indirect rebound effect. However, beyond this additional increase of global energy consumption, there is also a variation of the use of other resources for the same reason. So, after an energy efficiency improvement t… Show more

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“…Nevertheless, some rebound effects may occur, and this is in line with findings such as those reported by Freire-González and Font Vivanco (2017), which suggest that improvements in energy efficiency may trigger relevant changes in the consumption of other resources. These changes may be both positive (implying co-benefits) or negative (implying backfire) depending on the structure of consumption and the input-output-structure of each industry.…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 87%
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“…Nevertheless, some rebound effects may occur, and this is in line with findings such as those reported by Freire-González and Font Vivanco (2017), which suggest that improvements in energy efficiency may trigger relevant changes in the consumption of other resources. These changes may be both positive (implying co-benefits) or negative (implying backfire) depending on the structure of consumption and the input-output-structure of each industry.…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 87%
“…2The approach developed here thus differs from, but also complements, a perspective which focuses on households and the effects of efficiency improvements on consumption patterns. See Freire-González, 2017, Freire-González and Font Vivanco, 2017.…”
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confidence: 99%
“…Lastly, our study focuses on life-cycle GHG emissions, which are an imperfect proxy of environmental sustainability (Laurent et al, 2012). Therefore, expressing the ERE using other environmental indicators (e.g., water and metal use) could yield even more extreme rebound magnitudes (Freire-González and Font Vivanco, 2017).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This mechanism can have different implications for different impacts. The importance of such trade-offs in rebound analysis has been explored in a number of other studies [48][49][50][51], including the implications of using mid-and end-point indicators [52]. Regarding the latter, mid-point indicators (e.g., global warming potential) tell less about the actual impacts on humans and ecosystems yet are easier to trace back to their source (e.g., CO 2 emissions from an exhaust), whereas end-point indicators (e.g., climate change impacts on biodiversity or human health) provide the opposite trade-off [53].…”
Section: Indicators: From Direct Energy Use To Multiple Life Cycle Enmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Similarly, material rebound can be associated with land use rebound when cheaper construction materials lead to larger construction projects [64]. These and other synergies between rebound effects, sometimes called indirect cross rebound effects [51] or treated within the water-energy-land-food nexus framework [102][103][104], have rarely been explored, especially in the context of specific policy interventions.…”
Section: Knowledge Gaps and Research Prioritiesmentioning
confidence: 99%