Resource Efficiency Complexity and the Commons: The Paracommons and Paradoxes of Natural Resource Losses, Wastes and Wastages

ISBN-13: 9781138574748 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 248 str.

UK) Bruce (University of East Anglia Lankford

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Bruce Lankford is Professor of Water and Irrigation Policy at the School of International Development, University of East Anglia, UK. He has 30 years’ experience in the field of land and water development, mainly in Sub-Saharan Africa, and is a co-founder of the UEA Water Security Research Centre.