Energy Efficiency and Sustainable Consumption
Energy Efficiency and Sustainable Consumption
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能源效率和可持续消费
DOI:
10.1057/9780230583108_4
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2009
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Allan G
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Allan G
In this chapter we address the question: how large are the system-wide rebound effects likely to be for general improvements in energy efficiency in production activities in a developed economy? Most studies focus on the direct rebound effects, often in the context of the demand for consumer services (Greening et al., 2000; Sorrell, 2007). This restricts the analysis solely to the energy required to provide the consumer services to which the efficiency improvement directly applies. There is, to date, comparatively little evidence on the scale of non-direct or system-wide effects that reflect the relative price, output and income changes induced by improvements in energy efficiency (Greening et al., 2000). We begin with a brief summary of previous theoretical and empirical analyses. We then use an economy-energy-environment Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model of the UK to identify the likely system-wide ramifications of a stimulus to industrial energy efficiency. 1