Mario Giampietro, Kozo Mayumi

The Biofuel Delusion

The Fallacy of Large Scale Agro-Biofuels Production

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

First Published in 2009. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Juni 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 472g
• ISBN-13: 9781138866973
• ISBN-10: 1138866970
• Artikelnr.: 42801073

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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