ReviewPatterns (New York, N.Y.)2023
Systems thinking and efficiency under emissions constraints: Addressing rebound effects in digital innovation and policy.
Review in Patterns (New York, N.Y.), 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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8 citing papers in PubMed.
- Ethical and social difficulties of addressing environmental harms related to health research.Bulletin of the World Health Organization · 2026Article
- Environmental considerations in human genomic data governance: overcoming normative challenges.BMC medical ethics · 2026Article
- Digital health systems and inequities: exploring climate and environmental impacts.Oxford open digital health · 2026Article
- UK Public Focus Groups on Healthcare's Environmental Impacts: A Critical Analysis of Co-Benefits Approaches.Sociology of health & illness · 2025Article
- Addressing environmental harms in the health sector: environmentality as a lens to expose (neglected) sites of knowledge/power.Humanities & social sciences communications · 2025Article
- Why digital innovation may not reduce healthcare's environmental footprint.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2024Article
- Carbon Accounting in the Digital Industry: The Need to Move towards Decision Making in Uncertainty.Sustainability · 2024Article
- Ten recommendations for reducing the carbon footprint of research computing in human neuroimaging.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2023Article
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Abstract
Innovations and efficiencies in digital technology have lately been depicted as paramount in the green transition to enable the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, both in the information and communication technology (ICT) sector and the wider economy. This, however, fails to adequately account for rebound effects that can offset emission savings and, in the worst case, increase emissions. In this perspective, we draw on a transdisciplinary workshop with 19 experts from carbon accounting, digital sustainability research, ethics, sociology, public policy, and sustainable business to expose the challenges of addressing rebound effects in digital innovation processes and associated policy. We utilize a responsible innovation approach to uncover potential ways forward for incorporating rebound effects in these domains, concluding that addressing ICT-related rebound effects ultimately requires a shift from an ICT efficiency-centered perspective to a "systems thinking" model, which aims to understand efficiency as one solution among others that requires constraints on emissions for ICT environmental savings to be realized.
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