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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
Organization Unit
Authors
  • Kelly Widdicks
  • Federica Lucivero
  • Gabrielle Samuel
  • Lucas Somavilla Croxatto
  • Marcia Tavares Smith
  • Carolyn Ten Holter
  • Mike Berners-Lee
  • Gordon S Blair
  • Marina Jirotka
  • Bran Knowles
  • Steven Sorrell
  • Miriam Börjesson Rivera
  • Caroline Cook
  • Vlad C Coroamă
  • Timothy J Foxon
  • Jeffrey Hardy
  • Lorenz Hilty
  • Simon Hinterholzer
  • Birgit Penzenstadler
Item Subtype Original Work
Refereed Yes
Status Published in final form
Language
  • English
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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