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  • THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF SOIL EROSION IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
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    THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF SOIL EROSION IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
    PIERS BLAIKIE
    First published in 1985. This book examines wide variety of ways in which environmental deterioration, in particular soil erosion, can be viewed and the implicit political judgements that often inform them. Using the context of developing countries, where the effects tend to be more acute due to underdevelopment and climatic factors, this work aims to examine this source of unc...

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  • ALTERNATIVE DEVELOPMENT
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    ALTERNATIVE DEVELOPMENT
    CATHRINE BRUN / PIERS BLAIKIE
    This book brings together a collection of essays that discuss alternative development and its relevance for local/global processes of marginalization and change in the Global South. Alternative development questions who the producers of development knowledges and practices are, and aims at decentring development and geographical knowledge from the Anglo-American centre and the ...

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  • LAND DEGRADATION AND SOCIETY
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    LAND DEGRADATION AND SOCIETY
    PIERS BLAIKIE
    Why does land management so often fail to prevent soil erosion, deforestation, salination and flooding? How serious are these problems, and for whom? This book, first published in 1987, sets out to answer these questions, which are still some of the most crucial issues in development today, using an approach called ‘regional political ecology’. This approach acknowledges that t...

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  • AT RISK
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    AT RISK
    PIERS BLAIKIE / TERRY CANNON / IAN DAVIS / BEN WISNER
    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 update...

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