David A Preston
Biographic Data
| ID | 323752 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David A Preston |
| GIVEN NAMES | David A |
| FAMILY NAME | Preston |
| SIGNATURE | PRESTON D A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Leeds |
| ORCID | 0009-0009-8954-2378 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 50 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1963 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The Long Rise of Private Finance in Development and the Implications for Policymakers
Industrialized countries have utilized risk-sharing and investment instruments, bilateral and multilateral organizations, and policy mechanisms to attract private finance to support their objectives in developing countries for longer than the current literature suggests. The research finds that the incorporation of private finance had its origins in the early twentieth century, found its legs after the Second World War, and grew throughout the Co…
Policy approaches to increase external investment by US pension funds in African countries
Limited external investment has dampened the prospect for a prosperous African continent that capitalises on economic integration and its demographic dividend. This article explores US pension funds as a candidate for increased investment by framing it through an institutional lens and the scholarly understanding of the risk–return dynamics in private capital allocation. The original research is centered on interviews of senior‐level professional…
Interpreting rural change in M alaysia
Relatively little in the literature on rural change in Southeast Asia engages with M alaysia, where the population is becoming urban‐based more rapidly than in many countries in the region. The literature on change in rural M alaysia during the past 40 years, supplemented by our own research, is used to identify key features of such change, which are considered in the context of existing interpretations to arrive at deeper understandings of rural…
Dilemmas of Modernity: Bolivian Encounters with Law and Liberalism - by Goodale, Mark
Grazing and Environmental Change on the Tarija Altiplano, Bolivia
The state of the physical environment is reviewed and the importance of grazing in complex rural livelihoods is assessed in the hitherto little studied Tarija altiplano, Bolivia. Past and contemporary climatic fluctuations have dominated environmental change and are reflected in landforms, soils, vegetation, and land use. Broad fluctuations of dry and wet phases, 200–500 years long, occurred between BC 1500 and the 19th century. Warming has taken…
Post-Peasant Capitalist Graziers: The 21st Century in Southern Bolivia
Grazing elements in the household livelihood strategies of rural people in Tarija (southern Bolivia) are examined in order to show how they use a range of micro-environments in a sustainable way, how such strategies have evolved during the pres- ent century, and how grazing is intimately linked with out-migration. Grazing strengthens livelihoods and is easily integrated into the survival strategies of people living in what are evidently transloca…
Changed Household Livelihood Strategies in the Cordillera of Luzon
This paper identifies and discusses changes in land use and livelihood strategies in two communities on different sides of the Cordillera of Luzon, the Philippines. These include the abandonment of shifting cultivation on many hillsides, the growing of vegetables in pondfields previously used for rice cultivation and the deterioration of pondfield terraces as a result of water and labour shortages. It seeks some explanation of these changes by ex…
Poverty and Peasantry in Peru's Southern Andes, 1963-90
Fewer People, Less Erosion: The Twentieth Century in Southern Bolivia
Detailed investigations of household livelihoods in the valleys of Tarija, southern Bolivia, show how the resources of many different localities are used to provide a satisfactory living without necessarily reducing the stock of resources in the longer term. Historical studies of changes in the numbers of people and livestock show how land-use systems have evolved in recent centuries, and studies of river basins reveal the extent to which the fre…
Restructuring Bolivian rurality? Batallas in the 1990s
Using Europe for education: The experience of geographers at the university of Leeds
From Hacienda to Family Farm: Changes in Environment and Society in Pimampiro, Ecuador
Environmental change is often a consequence of modifications in local and national society as much as it is of the particular nature of different ecological situations. This assertion is demonstrated to be true in one part of the Ecuadorian Andes in two historical periods: from 1900 until 1960 and from 1960 to 1983. The analysis of the earlier period is based on contemporary accounts and historical analysis. Land use changes are shown to have ref…
Too busy to farm: Under‐utilisation of farm land in central Java
In two hamlets (dukuh) in south central Java, a series of situations have been identified in which some farm‐land is now being used less intensively than other, similar land. In an area of such high population density this appears a paradox. Although a variety of explanations exist for the less intensive use of farm‐land, where household livelihood strategies are highly diversified ‐ as in central Java ‐ and where a wide range of non‐farming work…
Latin American Development
Household Economy and Urban Development. São Paulo, 1765 to 1836
Imagination and Communication: Problems of Rural Latin Americanists
Contemporary Issues in Rural Latin America
Yucatan: A World Apart
Scarcity and Survival in Central America. Ecological Origins of the Soccer War
Environment, Society, and Rural Change in Latin America: The Past, Present, and Future in the Countryside
Essays examine various topics of immediate importance to rural Latin America: colonization of new land; land reform; social change and ethnicity; rural emigration; and penetration of farming by external interests. First-hand experience in different disciplines of the social sciences and different cultural sectors of Latin America are applied to these issues by resident and former-resident authors with a direct concern for the area
Views of rural Latin America
Economies and Societies in Latin America
Changes in Land Tenure and Land Distribution as a Result of Rural Emigration in Highland Ecuador
Economies and Societies in Latin America: A Geographical Interpretation
Economies and Societies in Latin America: A Geographical Interpretation
Fewer People, Less Erosion: The Twentieth Century in Southern Bolivia
Detailed investigations of household livelihoods in the valleys of Tarija, southern Bolivia, show how the resources of many different localities are used to provide a satisfactory living without necessarily reducing the stock of resources in the longer term. Historical studies of changes in the numbers of people and livestock show how land-use systems have evolved in recent centuries, and studies of river basins reveal the extent to which the fre…
The Keresan Bridge: A Problem in Pueblo Ethnology
The Revolutionary Landscape of Highland Bolivia
The major changes in rural land tenure that have occurred in various countries during the last two centuries have led to a profound change in man-land relationships. The results of such changes have in some cases been the thrusting of even more power upon the capitalist landowners, as in the Enclosure Movement in England, or alternatively the sudden transfer of decision-making in rural areas to the peasant masses, as has happened in some of the S…
From Hacienda to Family Farm: Changes in Environment and Society in Pimampiro, Ecuador
Environmental change is often a consequence of modifications in local and national society as much as it is of the particular nature of different ecological situations. This assertion is demonstrated to be true in one part of the Ecuadorian Andes in two historical periods: from 1900 until 1960 and from 1960 to 1983. The analysis of the earlier period is based on contemporary accounts and historical analysis. Land use changes are shown to have ref…
Changes in Land Tenure and Land Distribution as a Result of Rural Emigration in Highland Ecuador
New Towns-A Major Change in the Rural Settlement Pattern in Highland Bolivia
During the period since the Revolution of 1952 and the later agrarian reform a new settlement type has been created in the northern Altiplano and the sub-tropical valleys of the Yungas of La Paz. New nucleated settlements have been built by the rural people, largely spontaneously, and they represent a break with the dispersed pattern of dwellings that was the characteristic form of rural settlement prior to 1952
Policy approaches to increase external investment by US pension funds in African countries
Limited external investment has dampened the prospect for a prosperous African continent that capitalises on economic integration and its demographic dividend. This article explores US pension funds as a candidate for increased investment by framing it through an institutional lens and the scholarly understanding of the risk–return dynamics in private capital allocation. The original research is centered on interviews of senior‐level professional…
Changed Household Livelihood Strategies in the Cordillera of Luzon
This paper identifies and discusses changes in land use and livelihood strategies in two communities on different sides of the Cordillera of Luzon, the Philippines. These include the abandonment of shifting cultivation on many hillsides, the growing of vegetables in pondfields previously used for rice cultivation and the deterioration of pondfield terraces as a result of water and labour shortages. It seeks some explanation of these changes by ex…
Restructuring Bolivian rurality? Batallas in the 1990s
Environment, Society, and Rural Change in Latin America: The Past, Present, and Future in the Countryside
Essays examine various topics of immediate importance to rural Latin America: colonization of new land; land reform; social change and ethnicity; rural emigration; and penetration of farming by external interests. First-hand experience in different disciplines of the social sciences and different cultural sectors of Latin America are applied to these issues by resident and former-resident authors with a direct concern for the area
Views of rural Latin America
Land Development and Colonization in Latin America: Case Studies of Peru, Bolivia and Mexico
Rural Emigration in Andean America
The pervasive and vital movement of population from rural areas towards urban centers, zones of colonization, or areas of intensive commercial agriculture, is particularly important in Latin America. Areas of high rural population density with low levels of living abound, and throughout the continent the rate of economic growth of the urban-industrial sector of the economy far outstrips that of the rural-agricultural sector. Increasing attention …
Weavers and Butchers: A Note on the Otavalo Indians of Ecuador
Weavers and Butchers: A Note on the Otavalo Indians of Ecuador
Northern Haiti: Land, Use and Settlement: A Geographical Investigation of the Departement du Nord
Changes in the Economic Geography of Banana Production in Ecuador
importer. Bananas are the mainstay of the Ecuadorian economy, just as other tropical crops have been in the past. It is, therefore, surprising that there has been no detailed analysis of the economics of commercial banana cultivation or of the more distinctive aspects of its economic geography. James J. Parsons made a brief study of banana production in I956 and in a paper published in the following year gave a substantially correct account of so…
The Keresan Bridge: A Problem in Pueblo Ethnology
The Peruvian Industrial Labor Force
The Revolutionary Landscape of Highland Bolivia
The major changes in rural land tenure that have occurred in various countries during the last two centuries have led to a profound change in man-land relationships. The results of such changes have in some cases been the thrusting of even more power upon the capitalist landowners, as in the Enclosure Movement in England, or alternatively the sudden transfer of decision-making in rural areas to the peasant masses, as has happened in some of the S…
Rural Emigration in Andean America
The pervasive and vital movement of population from rural areas towards urban centers, zones of colonization, or areas of intensive commercial agriculture, is particularly important in Latin America. Areas of high rural population density with low levels of living abound, and throughout the continent the rate of economic growth of the urban-industrial sector of the economy far outstrips that of the rural-agricultural sector. Increasing attention …
Cities in a Changing Latin America: Two Studies of Urban Growth in the Development of Mexico and Venezuela
Land Development and Colonization in Latin America: Case Studies of Peru, Bolivia and Mexico
New Towns-A Major Change in the Rural Settlement Pattern in Highland Bolivia
During the period since the Revolution of 1952 and the later agrarian reform a new settlement type has been created in the northern Altiplano and the sub-tropical valleys of the Yungas of La Paz. New nucleated settlements have been built by the rural people, largely spontaneously, and they represent a break with the dispersed pattern of dwellings that was the characteristic form of rural settlement prior to 1952
Uruguay, moyennes et petites villes: Étude De Géographie Urbaine
Economies and Societies in Latin America: A Geographical Interpretation
Economies and Societies in Latin America: A Geographical Interpretation
Views of rural Latin America
Economies and Societies in Latin America
Changes in Land Tenure and Land Distribution as a Result of Rural Emigration in Highland Ecuador
Yucatan: A World Apart
Scarcity and Survival in Central America. Ecological Origins of the Soccer War
Environment, Society, and Rural Change in Latin America: The Past, Present, and Future in the Countryside
Essays examine various topics of immediate importance to rural Latin America: colonization of new land; land reform; social change and ethnicity; rural emigration; and penetration of farming by external interests. First-hand experience in different disciplines of the social sciences and different cultural sectors of Latin America are applied to these issues by resident and former-resident authors with a direct concern for the area
Contemporary Issues in Rural Latin America
Imagination and Communication: Problems of Rural Latin Americanists
Latin American Development
Household Economy and Urban Development. São Paulo, 1765 to 1836
Too busy to farm: Under‐utilisation of farm land in central Java
In two hamlets (dukuh) in south central Java, a series of situations have been identified in which some farm‐land is now being used less intensively than other, similar land. In an area of such high population density this appears a paradox. Although a variety of explanations exist for the less intensive use of farm‐land, where household livelihood strategies are highly diversified ‐ as in central Java ‐ and where a wide range of non‐farming work…
From Hacienda to Family Farm: Changes in Environment and Society in Pimampiro, Ecuador
Environmental change is often a consequence of modifications in local and national society as much as it is of the particular nature of different ecological situations. This assertion is demonstrated to be true in one part of the Ecuadorian Andes in two historical periods: from 1900 until 1960 and from 1960 to 1983. The analysis of the earlier period is based on contemporary accounts and historical analysis. Land use changes are shown to have ref…
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