| Biofuels and the Globalization of Risk Contributor(s): Smith, Professor James (Author) |
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ISBN: 1848135726 ISBN-13: 9781848135727 Publisher: Zed Books OUR PRICE: $32.62 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Public Policy - Environmental Policy - Political Science | Globalization - Technology & Engineering | Power Resources - Alternative & Renewable |
| Dewey: 333.953 |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.3" W x 8.4" (0.45 lbs) 160 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. |