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Noun Concept
Categories: Energy conservation, Environmental social science concepts, Eponymous paradoxes, Industrial ecology, Economics paradoxes
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Jevons paradox  rebound effect  Jevon's paradox  Jevons' effect  Jevons' Paradox
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In economics, the Jevons paradox occurs when technological progress or government policy increases the efficiency with which a resource is used, but the falling cost of use induces increases in demand enough that resource use is increased, rather than reduced. Wikipedia
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In economics, the Jevons paradox occurs when technological progress or government policy increases the efficiency with which a resource is used, but the falling cost of use induces increases in demand enough that resource use is increased, rather than reduced. Wikipedia
Economical paradox Wikidata
The proposition that technological progress that increases the efficiency with which a resource is used tends to increase (rather than decrease) the rate of consumption of that resource. Wiktionary
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paradox
industrial ecology
energy conservation
NAMED AFTER
Jevons
SAID TO BE THE SAME AS
rebound effect
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Jevon's paradox, Jevons' effect, Jevons' Paradox, Jevons's paradox, Jevons effect, rebound effect (conservation), Waste homeostasis

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