Biofuels and the Globalization of Risk
The Biggest Change in North-South Relationships Since Colonialism?
Seiten
2010
Zed Books Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-84813-571-0 (ISBN)
Zed Books Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-84813-571-0 (ISBN)
Biofuels and the Globalization of Risk offers the reader a fresh analysis of the politics and policies behind the biofuel story, examining the technological optimism. Starting with a brief history of bioenergy policy, this book explores the evolution of biofuels as a policy narrative, as a development ideal and as a socio-technical system through a series of interlinked case studies.
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.
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.
James Smith is co-director of and a senior lecturer in the Centre of African Studies at the University of Edinburgh. He is also a director at the ESRC Innogen Research Center at Edinburgh and a visiting fellow in development policy and practice at the Open University. He has worked with many international organizations and research centers including Oxfam, DFID, IDRC and the Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research.
Foreword
Introduction: Perfect Storms
1.Science
2. Systems
3. Synergies
4. Scale
5. Sustainability?
6. Globalising Risk
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 11.11.2010 |
|---|---|
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 138 x 216 mm |
| Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik | |
| Technik ► Elektrotechnik / Energietechnik | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-84813-571-8 / 1848135718 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-84813-571-0 / 9781848135710 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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