The Politics of Biofuels, Land and Agrarian Change

The Politics of Biofuels, Land and Agrarian Change
Author: Saturnino Borras Jr.
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 408
Release: 2013-09-13
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1317985419

This book addresses key questions on biofuels within agrarian political economy, political sociology and political ecology. Contributions are based on fresh empirical materials from different parts of the world. The book starts with four key questions in agrarian political economy: Who owns what? Who does what? Who gets what? And what do they do with the surplus wealth? It also addresses the emergent social and political relations in the biofuel complex and, given the impacts on natural resources and sustainability, engages with questions about people-environment interactions. At the same time, the book is concerned with the politics of representation, that is, what are the discursive frames through which biofuels are promoted and/or opposed? The book analyses the institutional structures, and cultures of energy consumption on which a biofuels complex depends, and the alternative political and ecological visions emerging that call the biofuels complex into question. Across sixteen chapters presenting material from five regions across the North-South divide and focusing on fourteen countries including Brazil, Indonesia, India, USA and Germany, these topics are addressed within the following themes: global (re)configurations; agro-ecological visions; conflicts, resistances and diverse outcomes; state, capital and society relations; mobilising opposition, creating alternatives; and change and continuity. This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of Peasant Studies.

Annual Report

Annual Report
Author: Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture
Publisher:
Total Pages: 164
Release: 2007
Genre: Agriculture
ISBN:

Sustainable Ethanol

Sustainable Ethanol
Author: Jeffrey Goettemoeller
Publisher: Prime Books
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2007
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

In this resource, the authors uncover the benefits and limitations of North America's fuel ethanol industry.

Biofuels Boom

Biofuels Boom
Author: Adriel Bettelheim
Publisher:
Total Pages: 22
Release: 2006
Genre: Alcohol
ISBN:

Energy Ethanol

Energy Ethanol
Author: Brent Yacobucci
Publisher: The Capitol Net Inc
Total Pages: 445
Release: 2009-12-31
Genre:
ISBN: 1587332175