Energy, bio fuels and development : comparing Brazil and the United States / Edmund Amann, Werner Baer and Donald V Coes

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Amann, Edmund (ed)

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Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London : Routledge, 2011Description: xxiv, 332 p. 24 cmISBN:

9780415567206

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333.790973 AMA

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Book	Calcutta	333.790973 AMA (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		IIMC-131231

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This book examines an issue which could not be more topical: the economic, social, and environmental implications of concerted attempts to diversify energy sources away from fossil fuels. Bringing together leading academics and researchers from the UK, the USA, and, Latin America, these chapters focus on the contrasting experiences of two major economies; one developed and the other, a rapidly expanding emerging market. A key area of concern surrounds the causes and consequence of the contrasting routes to biofuel production represented by sugar cane (in Brazil) and corn (in the US). The book also places the recent biofuels drive in perspective by discussing the broader energy policy context. Regard here is paid to attempts to substitute foreign with domestically-produced fossil fuels

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