Biofuels and the globalization of risk : the biggest change in the North-South relationships since colonialism? / James Smith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smith, James (Africanist), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Biomass energy--Political aspects.

Biomass energy.

Biomass energy--Government policy.

Biomass energy--Case studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (161 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

[London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021

Place of Publication:

London, England : Zed Books, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Foreword Introduction: Perfect Storms

1. Science

2. Systems

3. Synergies

4. Scale

5. Sustainability?

6. Globalising Risk.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Print version record.

ISBN:

9786612916267

9781350218666

1350218669

9781780320229

1780320221

9781282916265

1282916262

9781848135734

1848135734

OCLC:

694729355