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Biofuels and the Globalization of Risk The Biggest Change in North-South Relationships Since Colonialism?
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Biofuels and the Globalization of Risk
The Biggest Change in North-South Relationships Since Colonialism?
Professor James Smith
Political Science / Public Policy / Environmental Policy
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.
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.
| Publication Date: | 11 November 2010 |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Imprint: | Zed Books |
| ISBN-13: | 9781848135727 |
| Format: | Paperback softback |
| Page Count: | 160 |
| Weight (oz): | 7.52 |