Journal
ENERGY POLICY
Volume 63, Issue -, Pages 696-707Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2013.07.035
Keywords
Household consumption; Energy requirements; Urban form; Energy footprint; Rebound effect
Funding
- Alpen-Adria University Klagenfurt
- University of Sydney
- Austrian Science Fund (FWF) [TRP 214] Funding Source: researchfish
- Economic and Social Research Council [ES/K006576/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- ESRC [ES/K006576/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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Household consumption requires energy to be used at all stages of the economic process, thereby directly and indirectly leading to environmental impacts across the entire production chain. The levels, structure and determinants of energy requirements of household consumption therefore constitute an important avenue of research. Incorporating the full upstream requirements into the analysis helps to avoid simplistic conclusions which would actually only imply shifts between consumption categories without taking the economy wide effects into account. This paper presents the investigation of the direct and indirect primary energy requirements of Australian households, contrasting urban, suburban and rural consumption patterns as well as inter- and intra-regional levels of inequality, in energy requirements. Furthermore the spatial and socio-economic drivers of energy consumption for different categories of energy requirements are identified and quantified. Conclusions regarding the relationships between energy requirements, household characteristics, urban form and urbanization processes are drawn and the respective policy implications are explored. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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