The focus of the green paradox literature has been either on demand-side climate policies or on effects of technological changes. The present paper addresses the question of whether there also might be some kind of green paradox related to supply-side policies, i.e. policies that per-manently...

Part 1: Fundamentals of Energy Economics -- 1. Introduction to Energy Economics -- 2. Energy Systems, Efficiency, and Conservation -- 3. Energy Sectors, part I: Power and Electricity -- 4. Energy Sectors, part II: Fuels, Buildings, Industry, and Transportation -- 5. Energy Policy: Theory and...

1. Introduction / John M. Polimeni, Mario Giampietro and Kozo Mayumi -- 2. Historical overviews of the Jevons paradox in the literature / Blake Alcott -- 3. The Jevons paradox : the evolution of complex adaptive systems and the challenge for scientific analysis / Mario Giampietro and Kozo Mayumi...