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Type | Journal Article |
Scope | Discipline-based scholarship |
Title | Systems thinking and efficiency under emissions constraints: Addressing rebound effects in digital innovation and policy |
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Item Subtype | Original Work |
Refereed | Yes |
Status | Published in final form |
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Journal Title | Patterns |
Publisher | Cell Press (Elsevier) |
Geographical Reach | international |
ISSN | 2666-3899 |
Volume | 4 |
Number | 2 |
Page Range | 100679 |
Date | 2023 |
Abstract Text | Information communication technology (ICT)’s environmental impact must be considered in digital innovation and associated policy to mitigate ICT’s climate change contribution. A pro- posed solution to reduce ICT emissions is by improving efficiency, yet this fails to consider rebound effects where efficiency improvements offset emissions savings or increase emissions. In this perspective, we reveal insights from a transdisciplinary workshop that identified challenges for why rebound effects are difficult to include in innovation and policy. From this, we call researchers to (1) find new ways of presenting rebound effects to digital innovators and policymakers; (2) gather cross-disciplinary evidence of ICT rebound effects; and (3) transparently analyze ICT’s environmental, societal, and economic impacts together. We also call for a systems thinking approach to addressing ICT’s environmental impacts, whereby a solution to rebound ef- fects becomes visible: efficiencies under emission constraints. |
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Official URL | https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666389923000028?via%3Dihub |
Digital Object Identifier | 10.1016/j.patter.2023.100679 |
Other Identification Number | merlin-id:23546 |
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