即兴表演ving Energy Efficiency through Technology

Trends, Investment Behaviour and Policy Design

Edited by the late Raymond J.G.M. Florax, formerly Professor of Spatial and Environmental Economics, Department of Agricultural Economics, Purdue University, US, Henri L.F. de Groot, Professor, VU University Amsterdam, Tinbergen Institute and Ecorys NEI, the Netherlands and Peter Mulder, Assistant Professor, VU University Amsterdam and Tinbergen Institute, The Netherlands

This innovative book explores the adoption of energy-saving technologies and their impact on energy efficiency improvements. It contains a mix of theoretical and empirical contributions, and combines and compares economic and physical indicators to monitor and analyse trends in energy efficiency.

‘Increasing energy efficiency is important because it offers the prospect of partly solving our climate change and energy security problems without pain. This book sheds further light on the issue, focusing on energy-extensive economic activities which, by sheer volume, collectively use a substantial amount of energy. That simple fact alone makes this book worthwhile, but there are many other gems.’
– Richard Tol, The Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI), Ireland

‘This book rightly focuses on energy efficiency for the less energy-intensive sectors of our economy. In many industrialized countries the share of these sectors is growing, yet little attention is paid to energy, either by companies themselves, or by policy-makers or scientists. While focusing mainly on experiences in the Netherlands, this book makes an excellent contribution to the study of these sectors and, most importantly, initiates more comprehensive multi-disciplinary analyses.’
– Ernst Worrell, Utrecht University, The Netherlands