"Biofuels, Bioenergy and Food Security: Technology, Institutions and Policies explores the popular 'Food versus Fuel' debates, discussing the complex relationship between the biofuel and agricultural markets. From the importance of bioenergy in the context of climate change, to the potentially...

Front Cover -- Book Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part I - Political History -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Ethanol as a Transportation Fuel: How Federal Corn-Ethanol Policy Evolved -- A. Carter Administration, 1977-1981: Jump Starting a New...

Contents -- Contributors -- 1 Bioenergy Economics and Policy in US and Brazil: Effects on Land Use and Greenhouse Gas Emissions -- 1 Overview -- 2 Market and Policy Incentives for Biofuel Production in the US and Brazil -- 3 Land Use and Greenhouse Gas Effects of Biofuel Production in the US and...

Biofuels and the Globalization of Risk offers a fresh, compelling analysis of the politics and policies behind the biofuels story, with its technological optimism and often-idealized promises for the future. This essential new critique argues that investment in biofuels may reconfigure risk and...

Interest in biofuels began with oil shocks in the 1970's, but the more rapid development and consumption of biofuel industry in recent years has been primarily driven by mandates, subsidies, climate change concerns, emissions targets and energy security.?From 2004 to 2006, fuel ethanol grew by...

Hydrogen could be a significant fuel of the future, with the potential to make a major contribution to the resolution of pressing social and environmental problems such as carbon emissions, energy security and local air pollution. This book, based on four years of detailed research, subjects the...

Cover -- SOCIOECONOMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS OF BIOFUELS: Evidence from Developing Nations -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Part One: Global overview -- 1: Biofuels at the confluence of energy security, rural development, and food...