Biofuels and the globalisation of risk : the biggest change in the North-South releationships since colonialism?
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Biofuels and the globalisation of risk : the biggest change in the North-South releationships since colonialism?
Zed, 2010
- : pbk
Available at 2 libraries
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Library, Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organization図
: pbkG||620.9||B817504812
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [135]-144) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Biofuels and the Globalization of Risk offers a fresh, compelling analysis of the politics and policies behind the biofuels story, with its technological optimism and often-idealized promises for the future. This essential new critique argues that investment in biofuels may reconfigure risk and responsibility, whereby the global South is encouraged to invest its future in growing biofuel crops, often at the expense of food, in order that the global North may continue its unsustainable energy consumption unabated and guilt-free. Thus, Smith argues, biofuels may constitute the biggest change in North-South relationships since colonialism.
Table of Contents
Foreword
Introduction: Perfect Storms
1.Science
2. Systems
3. Synergies
4. Scale
5. Sustainability?
6. Globalising Risk
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