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1 online resource (160 pages) |
| Contents |
About the author; Acknowledgements; Acronyms; ONE -- Introduction: perfect storms; TWO -- Science: biofuels, yesterday and tomorrow; THREE -- Systems: complexity and knowledge; FOUR -- Synergy: networks and interests; FIVE -- Scale: solutions and risks; SIX -- Sustainability? The globalization of risk; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Biomass energy -- Political aspects
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Biomass energy -- Government policy
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Biomass energy -- Case studies
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NATURE -- Wildlife.
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Biocarburants.
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Disponibilités alimentaires.
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Consommation d'énergie.
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Relations Nord-Sud.
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Mondialisation.
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Biomass energy
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Biomass energy -- Government policy
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| Genre/Form |
Case studies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781848135734 |
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1848135734 |
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