Phil O'Keefe

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Phil O'Keefe is affiliated with the following schools: London School of Economics, University of Oxford, Ushaw College

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According to Wikipedia, Phil O'Keefe was emeritus professor at Northumbria University, and a geographer and development specialist with experience in East and Southern Africa. Background O'Keefe was born in December 1948 in North Shields, and grew up in Tyne and Wear in north east England. He attended Ushaw College, a Catholic seminary for 8 years. He began studying philosophy at Durham University but changed direction and completed an undergraduate degree in Geography from Newcastle University, and a doctorate at The School of Oriental and African Studies in London. This was awarded in 1978 and concerned the underdevelopment of a village in Murang'a, Kenya , supervised by the geographer Richard Hodder.

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Phil O'Keefe's Published Works

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Taking the naturalness out of natural disasters (1976) (846)
Climate change and disaster management. (2015) (446)
Disaster resilience: a bounce back or bounce forward ability? (2011) (394)
The Earthscan Reader in Sustainable Development (2023) (144)
Approaching disaster management through social learning (2010) (115)
Global systems and local disasters: the untapped power of peoples' science. (1977) (108)
Geography, Marx and the Concept of Nature (1980) (104)
The Southern African Environment: Profiles of the SADC Countries (1994) (103)
Land Use and Agricultural Productivity in Zimbabwe (1985) (93)
Climate adaptation from a poverty perspective (2008) (84)
The fuelwood trap : a study of the SADCC region (1988) (73)
The future of energy use (1995) (58)
Urban fuelwood challenges and dilemmas (1990) (57)
Introduction: rethinking environment and development in Africa and Asia (2001) (55)
Global disasters, a radical interpretation (2019) (50)
Disaster Resilience Integrated Framework for Transformation (DRIFT): A new approach to theorising and operationalising resilience (2019) (49)
The double bind of poverty and community disaster risk reduction: a case study from the Caribbean (2012) (49)
Farmers do it better: local management of change in southern Burkina Faso (1999) (46)
Gardening to reduce hazard: urban agriculture in Tanzania (2001) (45)
Forced Labour in Colonial Africa (1981) (44)
Energy and Development in Kenya: Opportunities and Constraints (1984) (39)
Beyond the Fuelwood Crisis: People, Land and Trees in Africa (1990) (35)
Developing a model for building resilience to climate risks for cultural heritage (2015) (35)
Energy in Africa (2023) (30)
Energy, poverty and governance (2007) (30)
Planning for sustainability: Access to fuelwood in Dhanusha District, Nepal (1991) (26)
Alternatives for Sustained Disaster Risk Reduction (2010) (26)
Managing Adaptation to Climate Risk: Beyond Fragmented Responses (2013) (23)
Hunger: A Polemical Review* (1982) (19)
The new forester. (1995) (19)
Alternatives pour une réduction durable des risques de catastrophe (2010) (18)
Fuelwood policies for the 1990s (1992) (17)
The challenge of humanitarian aid: an overview (2013) (15)
The Adaptation Continuum: Groundwork for the Future (2011) (15)
African soil erosion — nature undone and the limitations of technology (1989) (14)
Land use and development. (1977) (13)
Mainstreaming the African environment in development? (2006) (13)
A solar energy resources assessment in Mozambique (2017) (13)
Redefining the Roles of Environmental NGOs in Africa (1995) (12)
Resilient responses to climate change and variability: a challenge for public policy (2010) (12)
Nomads on the scheme - A study of irrigation agriculture and pastoralism in eastern Sudan. (1977) (11)
Post‐disaster housing and management in Malaysia: a literature review (2013) (11)
Understanding fuelwood I. A critique of existing interventions in southern Africa (2009) (10)
Energy utilisation in peri-urban areas: issues of demand (1997) (9)
On The Emergence of Complex Disasters (1997) (9)
THESES ON PEASANTRY (1977) (9)
Preventive planning for disasters (1977) (9)
Wood Energy in Eastern and Southern Africa (1989) (9)
“Theses on Peasantry” Revisited (2005) (9)
A strategic model for PV dissemination in Thailand (1999) (8)
International Disaster Relief: Toward a Responsive System (1978) (8)
Sustainable solutions to land use conflicts: Cattle and trees in the SADCC region (1989) (8)
Barriers to adaptation in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Preliminary findings (2014) (8)
Energy and Development in Southern Africa (1986) (8)
Decline and Regeneration: Policy Responses to Processes of Change in Post-WWII Urban Neighbourhoods (2007) (7)
Energy and the southern African regional confrontation (1984) (7)
Drought-induced resettlement: a case study from Burkina Faso (1999) (7)
Geographers and geography: making waves for the wrong reasons (2010) (7)
Landuse and Development (1979) (7)
Mozambican environmental problems: Myths and realities (1991) (6)
Dissemination of photovoltaics in The Gambia (1995) (6)
Finding local answers to fuelwood problems (1992) (6)
The future of nuclear power in Europe: a response (2006) (6)
Relief & rehabilitation in complex emergencies (1997) (6)
Introduction: Peasants, Pastoralists and Proletarians: Joining the Debates on Trajectories of Agrarian Change, Livelihoods and Land USE (2013) (6)
Evolution of Disaster Planning and Housing in Malaysia: A Reviews (2013) (6)
Human control of climate: introducing cities (2015) (5)
Recollections of tropical geography: The accidental post‐colonial geographer (2020) (5)
An evaluation of barriers in implementing disaster planning and the housing programme in Malaysia (2011) (5)
From vulnerability to resilience: the adaptation continuum (2008) (5)
Energy in Kenya (1985) (5)
In praise of Geography as a field of study for the climate emergency (2021) (5)
Eleven Antitheses on Cities and States: Challenging the Mindscape of Chronology and Chorography in Anthropogenic Climate Change (2016) (4)
The Fuelwood Trap (2009) (4)
A Survey of Evaluation Experience in Complex Emergencies (2001) (4)
Poverty and agricultural development policy in a semi-arid area of Eastern Kenya. (1977) (4)
Chapter 3 Disastrous Disasters A Polemic on Capitalism, Climate Change, and Humanitarianism (2015) (4)
Energy and development in southern Africa : SADCC country studies. P. 1 (1984) (3)
The United States and South Africa in the Changing International Division of Labor (1980) (3)
Full report of the evaluation of the Liberia PRRO 10454.0 (July 2007-June 2009): a report from the Office of Evaluation (2009) (3)
Cost effectiveness & benefits of photovoltaics in the Gambia (1994) (3)
Trying to develop third world energy policy - The limits of intervention (1996) (3)
Recent Developments in British Radical Geography (1985) (3)
Energy – power to some people (1991) (3)
The vulnerable society (2008) (3)
Rural development in Sudan: The Dutch aid experience (1991) (2)
The dilemmas of psychosocial interventions in humanitarian assistance (2014) (2)
Development or underdevelopment: a Kenyan case study (1976) (2)
Learning and adaptation of disaster management and housing provision: The Malaysian experience (2012) (2)
Energy policy and planning in southern Africa (1999) (2)
Vegetation and environmental change in the West African Sahel. (1977) (2)
Cities Demanding the Earth (2020) (2)
Conservation of inland deltas: a case study of the Gash delta, Sudan (1999) (2)
The political economy of Danish aid to Kenya, 1998-2003 (2005) (2)
Anthropogenic Climate Change is Urban Not Modern: Towards an Alternate Critical Urban Geography (2017) (2)
A sad note for Grenada (1984) (2)
The advent of primary health care in Mozambique. (1984) (2)
Biomass energy efficiency in informal industry (1995) (2)
David Slater: a leading geographical theorist (2020) (2)
Natural wood supplies in Kenya: An assessment of the ecological impact of its usage (1983) (2)
The Kenyan fuelwood cycle study. A summary (1983) (2)
Renewable energy sources for the 21st century. Collected papers from Energy-EYE plus fifty, an international conference, Tynemouth, UK, 17-18 November, 1987. (1988) (1)
Rethinking the revolution in Mozambique (1984) (1)
The uptake of preventive and curative child health services in Maputo, Mozambique. (1984) (1)
Climate Governance and Climate Change and Society (2015) (1)
Planning to meet Kenya's household energy needs: An initial appraisal (1983) (1)
General characterisation of the solar radiation components in Mozambique (2005) (1)
The Attitude of Officials Towards Compliance with Emergency and Housing Policies in Malaysia (2010) (1)
A worm's eye view of energy project appraisals in Africa (1986) (1)
REFLECTIONS ON TRANSITION: GAKARARA REVISITED (1982) (1)
Institutions or solutions? (2012) (1)
Humanitarian Assistance, 1992–99: Danida's Evaluation (2004) (1)
Land Tenure in Zimbabwe (1996) (1)
The fuelwood trap: a study of the SADCC [Southern African Development Coordination Conference] region (1988) (1)
Change in Administrative Structures: a case study of Kenyan agricultural development (1975) (1)
Could guns and rain spell the end for the Karamojong (2010) (1)
The Macnamara Medicine Show: an Experiment in Higher Education. (1979) (1)
Global Environment Change and Global Urban Change: Research Opportunity, Research Practices and Research Obligations (2014) (0)
Social Research Finding One: Quantitative Analysis of Successful Enterprises (2016) (0)
Reset: Anthropogenic Climate Change is Urban, not Modern (2020) (0)
Climate Change Adaptation in Mozambique (2009) (0)
Investigating the Distribution of Medical Services among Socioeconomic Groups in Texas (2016) (0)
Forced labour in colonial Africa. By A. T. Nzula, I. I. Potekhin and A. Z. Zusmanovich, edited and introduced by Robin Cohen. London: Zed Press 1979, xi, 218p., tables. £8.50 cased, £2.95 paper. (1980) (0)
Book reviews : Soussan, J. 1988: Primary resources and energy in the third world. London: Routledge. vi + 144 pp. £5.95 paper (1989) (0)
In justified anger 1 (2020) (0)
Chinese earthquake policy. (1977) (0)
Barry Munslow, Mozambique: the revolution and its origin . London: Longmans, 1983, 195 pp. - Michael Wolfers and Jane Bergerol, Angola: in the front line . London: Zed Press, 1983, 238 pp. (1984) (0)
Managing Adaptation to Climate Risk (2012) (0)
The Changing International Division of Labor and South Africa: An Overview1 (1983) (0)
And the circles, they go round: role of humanitarian aid (2011) (0)
POVERTY, PROLETARIANISATION AND THE PRODUCTION OF UNEVEN DEVELOPMENT: A KENYAN VILLAGE (2012) (0)
If we live in cities, let's learn about them (1980) (0)
Alternate: Jane Jacobs’ legacy (2020) (0)
Renewable energy: the power to choose : Daniel Deudney and Christopher Flavin 431 pages (New York, W.W. Norton and Company, 1983) (1983) (0)
Briefings (2004) (0)
Special Section: Agrarian change, livelihoods and land use in Sub-Saharan Africa (2013) (0)
Relations between tropical moist forest, edaphic factors and husbandry systems under limiting conditions in tropical West Africa. (1977) (0)
Renewable energies: are they alternatives? (1988) (0)
Disaster risk reduction mapping study for Eastern and Southern Africa (2010) (0)
Mozambique: the revolution and its origins by Barry Munslow London, Longman, 1983. Pp. xii + 196. £13.95.£5.95 paperback. (1983) (0)
Book reviews : Lewis, L.A. and Berry, L. 1988: African environments and resources. London: Unwin Hyman. xii + 404 pp. £40.00 cloth, £14.95 paper (1989) (0)
Ecology for Beginners (1984) (0)
McMeekan Memorial Lecture: The contribution of research to grasslands farming in Western Europe (1979) (0)
Book reviews : Mozambique: the revolution and its origins By BARRY MUNSLOW (London, Longman, 1983). 195 pp. £13.95 cloth, £5.95 paper (1984) (0)
Events or people?: trying to understand disasters: the social-science interface in considering natural hazards (2008) (0)
Action: Can We Stop Terminal Consumption? (2020) (0)
The environmental impacts of the energy crisis (1983) (0)
Books received (2001) (0)
The European Experience: a Historical Critique of Development Theory, Dieter Senghaas. Berg, Leamington Spa (1985), 280, £17.95, £6.95 softback (1987) (0)
Climate change and variability, energy and disaster management: produced risks without produced solutions – rethinking the approach (2008) (0)
The Limits to Capital (1984) (0)
Reconstruction Project Appraisal in a Disaster Affected Community in Central Sri Lanka (2013) (0)
Dominant characteristics of energy markets in developing countries 1 1 Presented in the Energy and Development section of the IEA Photovoltaic Power Systems Workshop, held during April 1995 at Newcastle, UK. (1995) (0)
Legislation and landscape: some aspects of agrarian reform and adjustment. (1977) (0)
The Urban Ecology of Health: Notes on Maputo, Mozambique (1984) (0)
The Hegemony of the North Over the South (1994) (0)
Why Some Fields Might be Rectangular: An Exploration of Agricultural Landscapes between Pre-Capitalist and Capitalist Modes of Production (2013) (0)
Evaluation of disaster assistance. (1997) (0)
Energy and the Environment in the Third World (1989) (0)
Recession in Africa edited by Jerker Carlsson Uppsala, Scandinavian Institute of African Studies, 1983. Pp. xi+203. Sw.Kr. 120.00. Sw.Kr.60.00 in the Third World. (1985) (0)
Declarations: Root and Branch Unthinking (2020) (0)
Review: International Disaster Relief (1979) (0)
The dissemination of photovoltaics in developing countries (1987) (0)
The future conduct of energy policy in the third world (1990) (0)
Appendix: Primer on Climate Change Policy (2020) (0)
Photovoltaics for Development: Identifying Real Opportunity (2021) (0)
Book Review: David Harvey's Geography (1985) (0)
Inside Out: Fourteen Antitheses Authenticating Cities (2020) (0)
An Optional Design of PV Systems for a Thai Rural Village (2020) (0)
Global resilience in the 21st Century (2012) (0)
Renewable energy sources for the 21st century : collected papers from energy-eye plus fifty an international conference held in Tynemouth, UK, 17-18 November 1987, to mark the European year of the environment (1988) (0)

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