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  • The Biofuel Delusion
    Kozo Mayumi / Mario Giampietro
    Faced with the twin threats of peak oil and climate change, many governments have turned for an answer to the apparent panacea of biofuels. Yet, increasingly, the progressive implementation of this solution demonstrates that the promise of biofuels as a replacement to fossil fuels is in fact a mirage that, if followed, risks leaving us short of power, short of food and doing as...
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    97,18 €

  • 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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    95,11 €

  • Energy Analysis for a Sustainable Future
    Alevgül H. Şorman / Alevgül Şorman / Kozo Mayumi / Mario Giampietro
    This book explains why conventional energy analysis and statistics are not useful for generating robust energy scenarios and effective assessments of the quality of alternative energy sources. Then it presents an innovative multi-scale approach, illustrated with empirical results, for effectively dealing with sustainability in face of the coming energy crisis. ...
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    103,81 €

  • The Origins of Ecological Economics
    Kozo Mayumi
    This book connects Georgescu-Roegen’s earlier work such as consumer choice theory and a critique of Leontief’s dynamic model, with his later ambitious attempt to reformulate the economic process as ’bioeconomics’. ...
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    97,94 €

  • 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 €