Biofuels and the globalisation of risk : the biggest change in north-south relationships since colonialism? /

Biofuels and the globalisation of risk : the biggest change in north-south relationships since colonialism? /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Smith, James (Africanist) 1973-
Imprint:	London ; New York : Zed Books ; New York : Distributed in the US by Palgrave Macmillan, c2010.
Description:	151 p. ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Biomass energy -- Political aspects. Biomass energy -- Economic aspects. Biomass energy industries -- Developing countries. Energy consumption -- Developed countries. Biomass energy -- Economic aspects. Biomass energy industries. Energy consumption. Developed countries. Developing countries.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8265108

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Varying Form of Title:	Biofuels and the globalization of risk
ISBN:	1848135718 9781848135710
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	An analysis of the politics and policies behind the biofuels story, with its technological optimism and often-idealized promises for the future. This 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.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgements
Acronyms
1. Introduction: perfect storms
2. Science: biofuels, yesterday and tomorrow
3. Systems: complexity and knowledge
4. Synergy: networks and interests
5. Scale: solutions and risks
6. Sustainability? The globalization of risk
Notes
Bibliography
Index