Piers Blaikie

Datos Biográficos

ID82460
NOMBREPiers Blaikie
NOMBRESPiers
APELLIDOBlaikie
FIRMABLAIKIE P
AFILIACIONESUniversity of East Anglia
VERIFICADONo
TOTAL DE OBRAS30
TOTAL DE CITAS526
TOTAL COMO AUTOR29
TOTAL COMO EDITOR1
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1971
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2016
ÍNDICE H9

  • Alternative Development

    Catherine Brun, Cathrine Brun et al.BOOKAlternative Development2016

  • Contextualizing Disaster

    Open AccessBurbach Mander, W A Norton et al.BOOKContextualizing Disaster2016Citada por: 8Referencias: 14

    of the two such as "neoliberal globalization," has produced both wealth and inequality at an unprecedented scale.Following the demise of the Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc, capitalism has emerged as the dominant economic paradigm, expressed as triumphalism, as found in Fukuyama's phrase "End of History" ( ) or in Margaret Thatcher's declaration, "There is no alternative."Social science research has debated the contours of the transformation of sta…

  • Land Degradation and Society

    Piers M Blaikie, Piers Blaikie et al.BOOKLand Degradation and Society2015

    Acknowledges that the reasons why land management can fail are extremely varied, and must include a thorough understanding of the changing natural resource base itself, the human response to this, and broader changes in society, of which land managers are a part. Four chapters provide a method of analyzing the problems of management and degradation. They focus particularly on the decision making environment of the land users and managers themselv…

  • Land Degradation and Society

    Harold Brookfield, Piers Blaikie et al.BOOKLand Degradation and Society2015Citada por: 192

  • At Risk

    Piers Blaikie, Benjamin Wisner et al.BOOKAt Risk2014

    The term 'natural disaster' is often used to refer to natural events such as earthquakes, hurricanes or floods. However, the phrase 'natural disaster' suggests an uncritical acceptance of a deeply engrained ideological and cultural myth. At Risk questions this myth and argues that extreme natural events are not disasters until a vulnerable group of people is exposed. The updated new edition confronts a further ten years of ever more expensive and…

  • Environmental justice? The story of two projects

    Open AccessPiers Blaikie, Joshua MuldavinARTICLEGeoforum2013Citada por: 10

  • Tsunami of 2004 in Sri Lanka

    Ragnhild Lund, Piers BlaikieBOOKTsunami of 2004 in Sri Lanka2009

  • Epilogue

    Open AccessPiers BlaikieARTICLEGeoforum2007Citada por: 26Referencias: 8

  • Is Small Really Beautiful? Community-based Natural Resource Management in Malawi and Botswana

    Open AccessPiers BlaikieARTICLEWorld Development2006Citada por: 160Referencias: 15

  • At Risk

    Piers Blaikie, Piers M Blaikie et al.BOOKAt Risk2005

    At Risk reasserts the significance of the human factor in disasters. Establishing that the social, political and economic environment is as much a cause of disasters as the natural environment, the book argues that disaster mitigation is rooted in the potential humans have to understand their vulnerability and to take common action.Famines and drought, biological hazards, floods, coastal storms, earthquakes, volcanoes and landslides: At Risk draw…

  • Upstream, Downstream, China, India

    Piers Blaikie, Piers M Blaikie et al.ARTICLEAnnals of the Association of…2004Citada por: 20Referencias: 33

    There is a long history of debate about the changing Hindu Kush-Himalaya (HKH) environment, but with important disjunctures between research, international environmental agendas and institutions, and various different domestic policies at the national level. Within academe, a retreat from the Theory of Himalayan Environmental Degradation (THED) since the late 1980s has not been reflected to any degree in domestic policy agendas of India and China…

  • Understanding 20 Years of Change in West-Central Nepal

    Open AccessPiers Blaikie, John Cameron et al.ARTICLEWorld Development2002Citada por: 32Referencias: 6

  • Development, Post-, Anti-, and Populist

    Open AccessPiers BlaikieARTICLEEnvironment and Planning A…2000

    The notion and practice of development have been severely critiqued from both modernist and postmodernist perspectives, yet the global development industry flourishes. The latter have afforded important insights, but also suffer from unexamined ideological agendas, a disinclination to undertake detailed research into development processes and policy, a preoccupation with texts and representations by the development industry, and from perpetuating…

  • A Review of Political Ecology

    Piers BlaikieARTICLEZeitschrift für Wirtschaftsgeograph…1999

  • Changes in Landscape or in Interpretation? Reflections Based on the Environmental and Socio-economic History of a Village in NE Botswana

    A Dahlberg, Annika C Dahlberg et al.ARTICLEEnvironment and History1999Citada por: 9Referencias: 6

    In semi-arid Africa, environmental change continues to be debated, focusing particularly on the status and significance of land degradation and on local versus scientific knowledge claims. This paper suggests an approach for using different types of data sources, and for bringing together understandings of ecosystem dynamics and of people's interaction with the environment, and thereby achieving 'closure' in a highly contested terrain. The enviro…

  • Post-modernism and global environmental change

    Open AccessPiers BlaikieARTICLEGlobal Environmental Change1996Citada por: 7Referencias: 1

  • At Risk. Natural Hazards, People's Vulnerability and Disasters

    Georgina Calderon, Jesús Manuel Macías et al.ARTICLEEconomic Geography1996

    (1996). At Risk. Natural Hazards, People's Vulnerability and Disasters. Economic Geography: Vol. 72, Theme Issue: The New Rural Geography, pp. 460-463

  • At Risk

    Ben Wisner, Piers Blaikie et al.BOOKAt Risk1994

    At Risk reasserts the significance of the human factor in disasters. Establishing that the social, political and economic environment is as much a cause of disasters as the natural environment, the book argues that disaster mitigation is rooted in the potential humans have to understand their vulnerability and to take common action.Famines and drought, biological hazards, floods, coastal storms, earthquakes, volcanoes and landslides: At Risk draw…

  • Combatting Aids and Other Sexually Transmitted Diseases in Africa

    Michael W Tuck, Jean-Louis Lamboray et al.ARTICLEAfrican Studies Review1994

  • Aids in Africa

    Sheldon F Shaeffer, Sheldon Shaeffer et al.ARTICLECanadian Journal of African…1994

  • Aids in Africa

    Nancy E Stoller, Nancy Stoller et al.ARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…1993

  • Aids in Africa

    John Bongaarts, Piers BlaikieREVIEWPopulation and Development Review1992

  • Aids and food production in East and Central Africa

    Open AccessTony Barnett, Piers BlaikieARTICLEFood Policy1989Referencias: 1

  • Environment and access to resources in Africa

    Open AccessPiers BlaikieARTICLEAfrica1989Citada por: 40Referencias: 27

    Opening ParagraphThis article has been written as a contribution to the future orientation of a research programme on the agrarian crisis in Africa, which has been set up by the Joint Committee on African Studies (JCAS) of the American Council of Learned Societies and the Social Science Research Council. The aim of this article is to provide an agenda for research on the environment and access to resources in Africa and is one of four which both …

  • The Theory of the Spatial Diffusion of Innovations

    Open AccessPiers BlaikieARTICLEProgress in Human Geography1978Citada por: 19Referencias: 12