Rebound effects have been historically studied through narrow framings which may
overlook the complexity of sustainability challenges, sometimes leading to badly informed …

Highlights•Urban and household economies of scale enable lower mobility and housing
emissions.•Household income drives total carbon footprints of consumption.• …

This book builds an essential bridge between climate change and social policy. Combining
ethics and human need theory with political economy and climate science, it offers a long …

Cities, as the primary hubs of economic activities and the end-points of goods and services
consumption, bear significant responsibility for the majority of global greenhouse gas …

How did Gross domestic product (GDP) become the world's most influential indicator? Why
does it still remain the primary measure of societal progress despite being widely criticised …

The heterogeneity in energy consumption between households has long been neglected,
leading to the low effectiveness of one-size-fits-all demand-side policies. Here, we …

Researching the dynamics of residential electricity consumption at finely-resolved
timescales is increasingly practical with the growing availability of high-resolution data and …

Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are simultaneously exhausting the world's supply of fossil
fuels and threatening the global climate. In many developing countries, significant …

This paper examines the endogenous evolution of household consumption patterns and
household carbon emissions (HCEs) by integrating the analysis methods of income …

Is reducing paid working time (WT) a potential win-win climate change mitigation strategy,
which may simultaneously serve environmental sustainability and human well-being? While …