Biofuels and the globalization of risk : the biggest change in the North-South releationships since colonialism? / James Smith.

An analysis of the politics and policies behind the biofuels story, with its technological optimism and often-idealized promises for the future. This critique argues that investment in biofuels may reconfigure risk and responsibility, whereby the global South is encouraged to invest its future in gr...

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Main Author: Smith, James (Africanist)
Language:English
Published: London : Zed, 2010.
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Physical Description:151 pages ; 22 cm
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