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

by JamesSmith (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  2010

  $155.81

  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.

• New

  Paperback
  2010

  $48.76

  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.