Rebound Effects and ICT: A Review of the Literature
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Estimating the scope of economy-wide rebound effects has historically been difficult, especially for technologies.
“Estimating the scope of economy-wide rebound effects has historically been difficult [117], especially for technologies [43].”
From From Efficiency Gains to Rebound Effects: The Problem of Jevons' Paradox in AI's Polarized Environmental Debate (2025) · cites this paper as [43]
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Jovanovic, B., & Rousseau, P. L. (2005) · Handbook of Economic Growth · doi:10.1016/s1574-0684(05)01018-x · Cited by 708 · see citing works
On the rebound? Feedback between energy intensities and energy uses in IEA countries
Schipper, L., & Grubb, M. (2000) · Energy Policy · doi:10.1016/s0301-4215(00)00018-5 · Cited by 253 · see citing works
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Known unknowns: Indirect energy effects of information and communication technology
Horner, N. C., Shehabi, A., & Azevedo, I. L. (2016) · Environmental Research Letters · doi:10.1088/1748-9326/11/10/103001 · Cited by 177 · see citing works
Pohl, J., Hilty, L. M., & Finkbeiner, M. (2019) · Journal of Cleaner Production · doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.02.018 · Cited by 164 · see citing works
The carbon emissions of writing and illustrating are lower for AI than for humans
Tomlinson, B., Black, R. W., Patterson, D. J., & Torrance, A. W. (2024) · Scientific Reports · doi:10.1038/s41598-024-54271-x · Cited by 77 · see citing works
Bieser, J. C. T., & Hilty, L. M. (2018) · EPiC Series in Computing · doi:10.29007/lx7q · Cited by 64 · see citing works
Luccioni, A. S., Strubell, E., & Crawford, K. (2025) · Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency · doi:10.1145/3715275.3732007 · Cited by 71 · see citing works
“In addition to societal and behavioral forces, there are also indirect geopolitical and policy effects.”
The evolution of distributed computing systems: from fundamental to new frontiers
Lindsay, D., Gill, S. S., Smirnova, D., & Garraghan, P. (2021) · Computing · doi:10.1007/s00607-020-00900-y · Cited by 45 · see citing works
- Authors
- Gossart, C.
- Affiliations
- Institut Mines-Télécom (FR)
- Corresponding author
- Gossart, Cédric
- ORCID
- Gossart, Cédric
- Venue
- Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Published
- 2014-08-07
- Volume
- 310
- Pages
- 435-448
- ISSN
- 2194-5357 (ISSN-L)
- 2194-5365
- OpenAlex
- W121584291
- Cited by
- 154
- References
- 2
- Citations by year
- 2026: 4 · 2025: 24 · 2024: 33 · 2023: 21 · 2022: 8 · 2021: 13 · 2020: 10 · 2019: 10 · 2018: 9 · 2017: 6 · 2016: 4 · 2015: 6 · 2014: 6
- FWCI
- 37.38
- Type
- book chapter
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- hal.science
- Licence
- Locations
- Advances in intelligent systems and computing (publishedVersion)
- HAL (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Energy › Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment › Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Media Technology › ICT Impact and Policies
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Electrical and Electronic Engineering › Green IT and Sustainability
- Keywords
- rebound effect, information and communication technologies, energy efficiency
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