This booklet demands rethinking present weather, power and sustainability policy-making through offering new insights into the rebound phenomenon; i.e., the riding forces, mechanisms and volume of rebound results and strength technique of mitigating them. It pursues an cutting edge and novel method of the political and clinical rebound discourse and therefore, supplementations the present state-of-knowledge mentioned within the box of power economics and up to date experiences through the Intergovernmental Panel on weather Change.

Building on principal rebound guides from the prior 4 a long time, this publication is split into 3 major sections: half I highlights new facets of rebound economics through featuring insights into concerns that experience up to now now not been satisfactorily researched, resembling rebounds in international locations of the worldwide South, rebounds at the producer-side, and rebounds from sufficiency behaviour (as against rebounds from technical potency improvements). In flip, half II is going past traditional fiscal rebound examine, exploring multidisciplinary views at the phenomenon, particularly from the fields of psychology and sociology. Advancing such multidisciplinary views offers a extra finished realizing of rebound’s using forces, mechanisms, and coverage strategies. half III places rebounds into perform and provides a number of coverage instances and sector-specific methods, together with the contexts of labour markets, city making plans, tourism, details and conversation applied sciences, and shipping. finally, the e-book embeds the difficulty into the bigger debate on decoupling, eco-friendly progress and degrowth, and identifies key classes realized for sustainable improvement thoughts and guidelines at huge. by means of making use of such diverse and in-depth analyses, the booklet makes a necessary contribution to the dialogue of the general query: Can resource-, energy-use and greenhouse gasoline emissions be considerably decreased with out hindering financial growth?