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Resource Efficiency Complexity and the Commons - The Paracommons and Paradoxes of Natural Resource Losses, Wastes and Wastages (Paperback)
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Resource Efficiency Complexity and the Commons - The Paracommons and Paradoxes of Natural Resource Losses, Wastes and Wastages (Paperback)
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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 effect he asks; "who gets the gain of
an efficiency gain?" By reusing, economising and avoiding losses,
wastes and wastages, freed up resources are available for further
use by four 'destinations'; the same user, parties directly
connected to that user, the wider economy or returned to the common
pool. The paracommons is thus a commons of - and competition for -
resources salvaged by changes to the efficiency of natural resource
systems. The idea can be applied to a range of resources such as
water, energy, forests and high-seas fisheries. Five issues are
explored: the complexity of resource use efficiency; the
uncertainty of efficiency interventions and outcomes; destinations
of freed up losses, wastes and wastages; implications for resource
conservation; and the interconnectedness of users and systems
brought about by efficiency changes. The book shows how these ideas
put efficiency on a par with other dimensions of resource
governance and sustainability such as equity, justice, resilience
and access.
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