The Politics of Biofuels, Land and Agrarian Change 9780415833783

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Climate change

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Wordery

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Taylor & francis

The Politics of Biofuels, Land and Agrarian Change : Routledge : 9780415833783 : 0415833787 : 14 Feb 2013 : 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 alternativ

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