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#2794670 in eBooks 2015-12-08 2015-12-08File Name: B018W7SD0G0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Fabulous, insightful and exquisitely well researched.By Technophobe01I have to say I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book. It covers the topic of Jevon's paradox in great detail and maps out the dangers of ignoring it. The book has the ability to redefine your perspective of the role of technological innovation in solving the worlds energy problems alone.My one critique would be to reorder the chapters. Chapter 1 is a hard though worthwhile read'Given both the importance of the topic and the analytical and policy vacuum that surrounds it, a book devoted to Jevons Paradox is both timely and welcome ... [it] contain(s) a great deal of valuable material.' - Steve Sorrell, Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex 'This extraordinary'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 food production per hectare over the last 50 years (due to the Green Revolution) did not solve the problem of hunger. The...

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