Biofuels and the Globalisation of Risk: The Biggest Change in North-south Relationships Since Colonialism? - Couverture souple

Smith, Professor James

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1848135726 ISBN 13 : 9781848135727

Editeur : Zed Books Ltd, 2010

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Zed Books Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1848135726
• ISBN 13: 9781848135727
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 160
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible