by
John M. Polimeni, Kozo Mayumi, Mario Giampietro
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
'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...