LEADER 04419nam 2200673Ia 450 001 9910459491803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-78032-022-1 010 $a1-282-91626-2 010 $a9786612916267 010 $a1-84813-573-4 035 $a(CKB)2670000000059153 035 $a(EBL)625224 035 $a(OCoLC)694729355 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000433675 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11311333 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000433675 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10394291 035 $a(PQKB)10874958 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC625224 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4708203 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL625224 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10438130 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL291626 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000059153 100 $a20100601d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBiofuels and the globalization of risk$b[electronic resource] $ethe biggest change in the North-South releationships since colonialism? /$fJames Smith 210 $aLondon $cZed$d2010 215 $a1 online resource (161 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-84813-572-6 311 $a1-84813-571-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [135]-144) and index. 327 $aAbout 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 analyses 327 $aDealing 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 governance 327 $aThe 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 effects 327 $aAssembling biofuels Science; Systems; Synergy; Scale; Sustainability?; The globalization of risk; Notes; Bibliography; Index 330 $aBiofuels 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. 606 $aBiomass energy$xPolitical aspects 606 $aBiomass energy$xGovernment policy 606 $aBiomass energy$vCase studies 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aBiomass energy$xPolitical aspects. 615 0$aBiomass energy$xGovernment policy. 615 0$aBiomass energy 676 $a333.9539 700 $aSmith$b James$cPh. D.$0886858 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910459491803321 996 $aBiofuels and the globalization of risk$91980525 997 $aUNINA