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

Paperback • 2010 • Norwegian Bokmål

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

By James. Smith

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About the book

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 con...Show more

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ISBN

9781848135727

Publisher

London : Zed Books

Published year

2010

Language

Norwegian Bokmål

Original title

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

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Paperback

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