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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
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