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  • The Jevons Paradox and the Myth of Resource Efficiency Improvements
    John M. Polimeni / Kozo Mayumi
    This is the first book to provide a historical overview of the Jevons Paradox, provide evidence for its existence and apply it to complex systems. Written and edited by world experts in the fields of economics, ecological economics, technology and the environment, it explains the myth of efficiency and explores its implications for resource usage (particularly oil). It is a mus...
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  • The Myth of Resource Efficiency
    John M. Polimeni / Kozo Mayumi / Mario Giampietro
    ’The Jevons Paradox’, which was first expressed in 1865 by William Stanley Jevons in relation to use of coal, states that an increase in efficiency in using a resource leads to increased use of that resource rather than to a reduction. This has subsequently been proved to apply not just to fossil fuels, but other resource use scenarios. For example, doubling the efficiency of f...
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    91,05 €