04419nam 2200673Ia 450 991045949180332120200520144314.01-78032-022-11-282-91626-297866129162671-84813-573-4(CKB)2670000000059153(EBL)625224(OCoLC)694729355(SSID)ssj0000433675(PQKBManifestationID)11311333(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000433675(PQKBWorkID)10394291(PQKB)10874958(MiAaPQ)EBC625224(MiAaPQ)EBC4708203(Au-PeEL)EBL625224(CaPaEBR)ebr10438130(CaONFJC)MIL291626(EXLCZ)99267000000005915320100601d2010 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrBiofuels and the globalization of risk[electronic resource] the biggest change in the North-South releationships since colonialism? /James SmithLondon Zed20101 online resource (161 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-84813-572-6 1-84813-571-8 Includes bibliographical references (p. [135]-144) and index.About the author; Acknowledgements; Acronyms; ONE | Introduction: perfect storms; Biofuelled futures; Globalizing technology and risk; Global assemblages; Organization of the book; TWO | Science: biofuels, yesterday and tomorrow; Energy revolution redux; Biofuels - early history; Biofuels 101; Brazil and bioethanol; Biofuels and the United States; Jatropha and India; Tanzania, land and biofuels; Later-generation biofuels; The black box of biorefineries; From the past to the future; THREE | Systems: complexity and knowledge; Capturing complexity; Setting boundaries; Life-cycle analysesDealing with uncertainties 'Energy return on investment'; Flawed analyses; Emissions and land-use change; Opportunity costs: indirect land-use change; Limited data and flawed accounting; Complexities of certification; Connecting biofuels and food security; Limits to knowledge, unlimited implications?; FOUR | Synergy: networks and interests; Assembling biofuels; Energy and (over)development; Beyond oil; The sustained failure of agriculture; Actors, discourses and debates; Actors and networks; The politics of governments and governance; The politics of governments and governanceThe power of converging interests Sustaining agricultural research; Sustaining unsustainability; Reconfiguring global land use; Lusophone connections; Reaching across the Indian Ocean; Sustaining over-consumption; Global biofuel assemblages; Calibrating change; FIVE | Scale: solutions and risks; Global-local dialectics; Can biofuels be pro-poor?; Indonesia, Malaysia and oil palm planting; Malian small-scale solutions?; Kenya - striking a balance; Scale and perspective; The global reach of biofuels; SIX | Sustainability? The globalization of risk; Scale and scope; Causes and effectsAssembling biofuels Science; Systems; Synergy; Scale; Sustainability?; The globalization of risk; Notes; Bibliography; IndexBiofuels 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.Biomass energyPolitical aspectsBiomass energyGovernment policyBiomass energyCase studiesElectronic books.Biomass energyPolitical aspects.Biomass energyGovernment policy.Biomass energy333.9539Smith JamesPh. D.886858MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910459491803321Biofuels and the globalization of risk1980525UNINA