Biofuels and the globalization of risk : the biggest change in the North-South releationships since colonialism? / / James Smith
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| Autore: |
Smith James, Ph. D.
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| Titolo: |
Biofuels and the globalization of risk : the biggest change in the North-South releationships since colonialism? / / James Smith
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| Pubblicazione: | London, : Zed, 2010 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (161 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 333.9539 |
| Soggetto topico: | Biomass energy - Political aspects |
| Biomass energy - Government policy | |
| Biomass energy | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [135]-144) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Foreword Introduction: Perfect Storms -- 1. Science -- 2. Systems -- 3. Synergies -- 4. Scale -- 5. Sustainability? -- 6. Globalising Risk. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Biofuels and the globalization of risk |
| ISBN: | 1-350-21866-9 |
| 1-78032-022-1 | |
| 1-282-91626-2 | |
| 9786612916267 | |
| 1-84813-573-4 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910818894703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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