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

Smith, Professor James

ISBN 10: 1848135726 / ISBN 13: 9781848135727

Published by Zed Books, Limited, 2010

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Biofuels and the Globalization of Risk : The Biggest Change in North-South Relationships since Colonialism?
• Publisher: Zed Books, Limited
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1848135726
• ISBN 13: 9781848135727
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Good
• Weight: 0.472 pounds

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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.

About the Author

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 Centre at Edinburgh and a visiting fellow in development policy and practice at the Open University. His research explores the relationships between knowledge, science and development, particularly in relation to agricultural research and how it is practised. He has worked with many international organisations and research centres including Oxfam, DFID, IDRC and the Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research.