Biofuels and the Globalization of Risk by Smith, James

Biofuels and the Globalization of Risk (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781848135727)

Vendor: James Smith
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Format: Paperback
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Biofuels and the Globalization of Risk by Smith, James

Biofuels and the Globalization of Risk

$34.95
Biofuels and the Globalization of Risk by Smith, James

Biofuels and the Globalization of Risk

$34.95
Format: Paperback
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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.

Author: James Smith
ISBN-10: 1848135726
ISBN-13: 9781848135727
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Language: English
Published: 11/11/2010
Pages: 160
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.30w x 0.50d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 07/01/2011
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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.
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.

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