TY  - BOOK
AU  - Solomon,Barry D.
AU  - Bailis,Robert
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - Sustainable Development of Biofuels in Latin America and the Caribbean
SN  - 9781461492757
AV  - GE195-199 
U1  - 338.927 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Springer New York, Imprint: Springer
KW  - Environmental sciences
KW  - Renewable energy sources
KW  - Environmental management
KW  - Sustainable development
KW  - environment
KW  - Sustainable Development
KW  - Renewable and Green Energy
KW  - Energy Policy, Economics and Management
KW  - Environmental Management
N1  - Introduction -- International Sustainability Standards and Certification -- Brazil: Ethanol -- Brazil: Biodiesel -- Argentina -- Peru -- Colombia -- Guatemala -- Mexico -- The Carribbean -- Conclusions -- Index
N2  - This book examines recent developments in Latin American biofuel production. Taking “sustainable development” as a central theme, each chapter considers one country in the region and explores how biofuel production is evolving given concerns about food sovereignty, trade and other social issues. Environmental conservation, as well as an increasingly complex and globalized economic structure, Is also taken into account. The contributions to this volume critically explore the ways in which biofuel production in Latin America impact social, economic and environmental systems: the so-called “three pillars of sustainability". Numerous stakeholders, drawn from government, industry, civil society and academia have attempted to define “Sustainable Development” in the context of biofuel production and to operationalize it through a series of principles, criteria, and highly specific indicators. Nevertheless, it remains a fluid and contested concept with deep political and social ramifications, which each chapter explores in detail
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-9275-7
ER  -