Phil O'Keefe

Biographic Data

ID4530847
NAMEPhil O'Keefe
GIVEN NAMESPhil
FAMILY NAMEO'Keefe
SIGNATUREKEEFE P O
AFFILIATIONSBeijer Institute, Royal Swedish Academy of Science
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS49
TOTAL CITATIONS192
AUTHOR COUNT49
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1975
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2020
H-INDEX6

  • Cities Demanding the Earth

    Open AccessPeter Taylor, Geoff O'Brien et al.BOOKCities Demanding the Earth2020

    Current climate change policy is necessary but insufficient. This is because the basic modus operandi – presenting scientific evidence to states for them to take action - misrepresents the complex process of anthropogenic climate change. The ‘anthropo’ bit is neglected in a misconceived supply-side (carbon) interpretation. The key question is, why is there so much demand for this carbon in the first place? This book introduces a demand-side inter…

  • Disaster Resilience Integrated Framework for Transformation (DRIFT)

    Open AccessBernard Manyena, Fortunate Machingura et al.ARTICLEWorld Development2019Cited by: 17References: 31

  • Is This America? Katrina as Cultural Trauma; Oil and Water

    Phil O’keefe, Phil O'KeefeARTICLEThe AAG Review of Books2017

  • Human control of climate

    Open AccessPaul J Taylor, Peter J Taylor et al.ARTICLEEnvironment and Planning A…2015References: 19

  • Approaching disaster management through social learning

    Open AccessGeoff O’brien, Geoff O'Brien et al.ARTICLEDisaster Prevention and…2010

    Purpose Coping with and adjusting to disruptive challenges has always been a characteristic of human development. Formalisation of this has led to the emergence of a number approaches addressing disruptive challenges. Often formalised practice has a narrow focus. Increasingly complex challenges require a refocus of formalised approaches. Drawing from these approaches, the purpose of this paper is to posit that a greater focus on preparedness thro…

  • Geographers and geography

    Open AccessPhil O’keefe, Phil O'Keefe et al.ARTICLEArea2010Cited by: 1References: 13

    We were driven initially to write this Commentary by a sense of exhilaration and exasperation. The exhilaration came from the opportunity to address global issues of climate change through adaptation at the local level, an issue that will be addressed in Copenhagen in December 2009. The sense of exasperation came from an increasingly populist but determinist universalising geography that was determinist in both a physical/biological sense but als…

  • Mainstreaming the African environment in development

    Open AccessReginald Cline‐cole, Phil O’keefe et al.ARTICLEReview of African Political Economy2006Cited by: 1References: 13

    We write against a background of depressing news items.The latest round of WTO negotiations over trade tariffs and subsidies has been suspended amid mutual recrimination by the EU and USA.At the same time, as unauthorised landings of desperate and destitute African migrants on the southern shores and outposts of the European Union reach an annual peak, EU countries are concluding multi-lateral and bi-lateral 'sustainable fishing' deals with gover…

  • Politics, history & problems of humanitarian assistance in Sudan

    Open AccessNeil Middleton, Phil O’keefe et al.ARTICLEReview of African Political Economy2006Cited by: 3References: 3

    It is increasingly widely recognised that humanitarian assistance is broadly understood in two distinct ways: one is to see it as a part of foreign policy, which is the customary position of donating states; the other is to see it as independent of governments and a matter of relieving suffering without distinction and is embodied in the Fundamental Principles of the Red Cross/ Red Crescent family. The present authors argue that any intervention …

  • Climate change and disaster management

    Open AccessGeoff O''Brien, Geoff O’brien et al.ARTICLEDisasters2006Cited by: 67References: 12

    Climate change, although a natural phenomenon, is accelerated by human activities. Disaster policy response to climate change is dependent on a number of factors, such as readiness to accept the reality of climate change, institutions and capacity, as well as willingness to embed climate change risk assessment and management in development strategies. These conditions do not yet exist universally. A focus that neglects to enhance capacity-buildin…

  • "Theses on Peasantry" Revisited

    Open AccessKirsten Johnson, Ben Wisner et al.ARTICLEAntipode2005References: 19

  • Relief & rehabilitation in complex emergencies

    Open AccessPhil O’keefe, Phil O'Keefe et al.ARTICLEReview of African Political Economy1997Cited by: 2

    Since the late 1980s international aid for development has fallen while humanitarian assistance for emergencies has increased. This change of emphasis reflects the collapse of the USSR and consequent political instability in the former Soviet Union, its former satellites and client states. It also reflects donor disillusion with the failure of many development projects. Much humanitarian assistance is delivered in complex emergencies such as in A…

  • Trying to develop Third World energy policy—the limits of intervention

    Phil O’keefe, Phil O'KeefeARTICLEInternational Journal of…1996

    This paper examines the difficulties in developing energy policy in the Third World. It emphasises that, despite the significant environmental impact of energy it is difficult to develop energy policy. Most significant decisions in the energy field are taken by Ministries of Finance not Ministries of Energy or Environment. The role of energy in production is examined together with the emerging nature of energy markets, with particular reference t…

  • Land Tenure in Zimbabwe

    Open AccessPhil O’keefe, Phil O'Keefe et al.ARTICLEReview of African Political Economy1996

    (1996). Land Tenure in Zimbabwe. Review of African Political Economy: Vol. 23, No. 70, pp. 579-580

  • Redefining the roles of environmental NGOs in Africa

    Ian Cherrett, Phil O’keefe et al.ARTICLEDevelopment in Practice1995

    The article summarises issues identified in a study undertaken on behalf of the HIVOS Foundation of the Netherlands and the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs Development Division, which included a field study of 45 environmental NGOs in seven African countries. This generated an institutional database to support the aid strategies of the agencies commissioning the research, and forms the basis of an analysis of some of the broader issues co…

  • Crisis and Opportunity

    W B Morgan, François Falloux et al.ARTICLEGeographical Journal1994Cited by: 4

  • Planning for sustainability

    Open AccessJohn Soussan, Els Gevers et al.ARTICLEWorld Development1991Cited by: 1References: 2

  • Energy – power to some people

    Open AccessPhil O’keefe, Phil O'Keefe et al.ARTICLEReview of African Political Economy1991Cited by: 1

  • Sustainable solutions to land use conflicts

    Open AccessPeter W B Phillips, Peter Phillips et al.ARTICLELand Use Policy1989Cited by: 4

  • Toxic terrorism

    Open AccessPhil O’keefe, Phil O'KeefeARTICLEReview of African Political Economy1988Cited by: 1

  • Wood, Energy and Households

    Fiona Mackenzie, Carolyn Barnes et al.ARTICLECanadian Journal of African…1987

    Many developing countries have been hard hit by the double crisis of threatened fuelwood supply and the increasing burden of oil imports. During the last decade energy provision has become

  • Energy and Development in Kenya

    David Brokensha, Phil O’keefe et al.ARTICLEEconomic Geography1986

    Many developing countries have been hard hit by the double "energy crisis" of threatened fuelwood supply and the increasing burden of oil imports. During the last decade energy provision has become a vitally important issue so that energy is now regarded as a basic factor of production ranking in importance with classical components: land, labour and capital. Careful and innovative energy planning has become a necessity for successful development…

  • Energy and Development in Southern Africa

    Kenji Okuda, Phil O’keefe et al.ARTICLECanadian Journal of African…1986

  • Geography, Marx and the Concept of Nature

    Open AccessN T Smith, Neil Smith et al.ARTICLEAntipode1985Cited by: 3

  • Recent Developments in British Radical Geography

    Open AccessPhil O’keefe, Phil O'KeefeARTICLEAntipode1985

  • Energy and Development in Kenya

    David S Cownie, Phil O’keefe et al.ARTICLECanadian Journal of African…1985