Resource efficiency complexity and the commons : the paracommons and paradoxes of natural resource losses, wastes and wastages /
The efficient use of natural resources is key to a sustainable economy, and yet the complexities of the physical aspects of resource efficiency are poorly understood. In this challenging book, the author proposes a major advance in our understanding of this topic by analysing resource efficiency and...
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505 | 0 | |a 1. A Preliminary Explanation of the Paracommons 2. Main Introduction and the Scope of the Book 3. On Resource Efficiency; Multiple Views 4. A Framework of Resource Efficiency Complexity 5. The Liminal Paracommons -- Efficiency and Transition 6. Distinctions Between the Commons and Paracommons 7. Significances and Applications of the Paracommons 8. Conclusions | |
520 | |a The efficient use of natural resources is key to a sustainable economy, and yet the complexities of the physical aspects of resource efficiency are poorly understood. In this challenging book, the author proposes a major advance in our understanding of this topic by analysing resource efficiency and efficiency gains from the perspective of common pool resources, applying this idea particularly to water resources and its use in irrigated agriculture. The author proposes a novel concept of ""the paracommons"", through which the savings of increased resource efficiency can be viewed. In effec. | ||
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