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Energetic and Economic Aspects of Rebound, Part I: Foundations of a Rigorous Analytical Framework

With colleagues and friends Gregor Semieniuk (economist) and Paul Brockway (energy analyst), I developed a mathematical framework to describe the rebound effect. More than six years in the making, Part I of our two-part paper was published today at https://doi.org/10.1177/01956574251331969. The paper speaks for itself (with more than 200 equations!). In this blog post, I want to recount the process that led to its publication. (Such stories are too rarely told.)

A country-level primary-final-useful (CL-PFU) energy and exergy database: overview of its construction and 1971—2020 world-level efficiency results