Between green growth and degrowth: Decoupling, rebound effects and the politics for long-term sustainability

Rethinking Climate and Energy Policies: New Perspectives on the Rebound Phenomenon

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 267-284

  Nørgård, Jørgen ^a   Xue, Jin ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

Author keywords

Degrowth; Delusion of decoupling; I = PAT; Rebound effect

Indexed keywords

EID: 85006427093     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-38807-6_15     Document Type: Chapter

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