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Biofuels and the Globalization of Risk: The Biggest Change in North–South Relationships Since Colonialism?

By James Smith

Book information

Publisher
Zed Books Ltd
Year
2010
ISBN
9781350218666, 9781848135727
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
960 kB (983547 bytes)
Pages
\154
Library
bloomsburycollections.com
Time added
2023-07-01 01:40:51

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.

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