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giampietro mario ; mayumi kozo - the biofuel delusion

The Biofuel Delusion The Fallacy of Large Scale Agro-Biofuels Production

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Genere:Libro
Lingua: Inglese
Editore:

EarthScan

Pubblicazione: 08/2009
Edizione: 1° edizione





Note Editore

Faced with the twin threats of peak oil and climate change, many governments have turned for an answer to the apparent panacea of biofuels. Yet, increasingly, the progressive implementation of this solution demonstrates that the promise of biofuels as a replacement to fossil fuels is in fact a mirage that, if followed, risks leaving us short of power, short of food and doing as much damage to the climate as ever -- let alone the consequent impact on biodiversity due to additional loss of habitat for agricultural production and on rural development due to the additional stress on traditional farming systems. Worse still, these risks are being ignored. In this definitive expos Mario Giampietro and Kozo Mayumi present a theoretical framework and exhaustive evidence for the case against large scale biofuel production from agricultural crops. This book will be vital, sobering reading for anyone concerned with energy or agricultural policy, or bioenergy as a complex system.




Sommario

Foreword by Vaclav Smil Foreword by Jerome Ravetz 1. Can We Solve the Agro-Biofuel Riddle? 2. Learning from the Past 3. Not Everything that Burns is a Fuel 4. Pattern of Societal Metabolism across Levels: A Crash Course in Bioeconomics 5. Assessment of the Quality of Alternative Energy Sources 6. Neglect of Available Wisdom 7. Reality Check on the Feasibility and Desirability of Agro-Biofuels 8. Agro-Biofuel Production is No Good for Rural Development 9. Living in Denial 10. Where Do We Go From Here? Appendix 1 - Basic Theoretical Concepts behind the Analysis of Societal Metabolism Appendix 2 - Examples of Grammars and Applications of Bioeconomics




Autore

Mario Giampietro is an ICREAn Research Professor at the Universitat Autonoma Barcelona, Spain. Kozo Mayumi is a Professor at the University of Tokushima, Japan.










Altre Informazioni

ISBN:

9781844076819

Condizione: Nuovo
Dimensioni: Ø 1.45 lb
Formato: Copertina rigida
Illustration Notes:Index, references, illustrations
Pagine Arabe: 336


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