New scientific arguments for including the rebound effect

September 2, 2013 by Bo Weidema

New scientific arguments for including the rebound effect will be put forward at this weeks advanced LCA PhD course at Aalborg University.

During the session on consequential modelling in life cycle inventory we are keen to discuss with the students our new ideas on up-streaming the price rebound effects to more efficiently balance the individual product systems – Thereby supporting the balance argument for the price rebound effect.

Here is one of the slides we will discuss with the students:

The balance argument for rebound effects

Lecturers in this session are: Professor Bo Weidema, Associate Professor Jannick Schmidt, Associate Professor Søren Løkke, and Anna Flysjö (TBC) (Life Cycle Sustainability Manager, Arla Foods amba)