Overview & framework
Energy sufficiency and rebound effects. Concept paper
Nov 2018 [eceee concept papers, Overview & framework, Potentials & modelling]
Managing the rebound effect. This concept paper discusses how energy sufficiency and the rebound effect interact. Rebound effects can constrain the energy savings from energy efficiency improvements. The paper examines the nature of these effects, and ask the question: can greater use of sufficiency policies and actions help to tackle negative rebounds, or will it create rebounds itself?
Energy sufficiency: an introduction
Oct 2018 [eceee concept papers, Overview & framework]
Concept paper serving as an introduction to the energy sufficiency concept. As part of this project, researchers at Oxford University have developed the ‘energy sufficiency doughnut’ – a picture showing what we mean by energy sufficiency.
Two types of ‘enough’: sufficiency as minimum and maximum
Jan 2016 [Overview & framework, Other papers]
Laura Spengler (2016). The question ‘how much is enough?’ can be related to two different kinds of thresholds: minimum and maximum levels.
Sufficiency, Liberal Societies and Environmental Policy in the Face of Planetary Boundaries
Jan 2016 [Overview & framework, Other papers]
Adrian Muller & Markus Huppenbauer (2016). This paper suggests that sufficiency should amend the notion of liberal society.
When less is more - Sufficiency: Terminology, rationale and potentials
Jan 2013 [Overview & framework, Other papers]
Corinna Fischer et al (2013). This paper is part of a research project dealing specifically with the question of how sufficiency can emerge in a society and how policy can help to shape this process.
The Logic of Sufficiency
Jan 2005 [Reports & books, Overview & framework]
Thomas Princen (2005). With examples ranging from timbering and fishing to automobility and meat production, Princen shows that sufficiency is perfectly sensible.