Piers Blaikie
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Piers Macleod Blaikie is a Scottish geographer and scholar of international development and natural resources, who worked until 2003 at the School of Development Studies, University of East Anglia. His contribution to development has been in four areas:EnvironmentAgrarian changeAIDS and family planningPolitical ecology
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- At Risk: Natural Hazards, People's Vulnerability and Disasters (1996) (7284)
- Land degradation and society (1988) (2442)
- The political economy of soil erosion in developing countries (1985) (790)
- Nepal in Crisis: Growth and Stagnation at the Periphery (1980) (232)
- AIDS in Africa: Its Present and Future Impact. (1993) (201)
- Land degradation, stocking rates and conservation policies in the communal rangelands of Botswana and Zimbabwe (1989) (192)
- Development, Post-, Anti-, and Populist: A Critical Review (2000) (190)
- Forests, people and power : the political ecology of reform in South Asia (2007) (183)
- Knowledge in action: Local knowledge as a development resource and barriers to its incorporation in natural resource research and development (1997) (172)
- Upstream, Downstream, China, India: The Politics of Environment in the Himalayan Region (2004) (142)
- UNITED NATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT DP 72 BIODIVERSITY AND HUMAN WELFARE (2004) (138)
- Changing environments or changing views? A political ecology for developing countries (1995) (127)
- Understanding 20 Years of Change in West-Central Nepal: Continuity and Change in Lives and Ideas (2002) (126)
- A review of political ecology:Issues, epistemology and analytical narratives (1999) (123)
- Biodiversity and human welfare (1996) (113)
- Epilogue: Towards a future for political ecology that works (2008) (99)
- Defining and debating the problem (1987) (92)
- Environment and access to resources in Africa (1989) (87)
- Explanation and policy in land degradation and rehabilitation for developing countries (1989) (87)
- Elephants, people, parks and development: the case of the Luangwa Valley, Zambia (1986) (76)
- Conceptual and methodological challenges in the study of livelihood trajectories: case-studies in Eastern India and Western Nepal (1998) (75)
- Measuring land degradation. (1991) (64)
- Understanding environmental issues. (1995) (62)
- Should some political ecology be useful? The Inaugural Lecture for the Cultural and Political Ecology Specialty Group, Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, April 2010 (2012) (60)
- Peasants and Workers in Nepal (1979) (57)
- Policy in High Places: Environment and Development in the Himalayan Region (2000) (54)
- The struggle for basic needs in Nepal (1979) (50)
- Post-modernism and global environmental change (1996) (50)
- The Theory of the Spatial Diffusion of Innovations: A Spacious Cul-De-Sac (1978) (49)
- Spatial Organization of Agriculture in Some North Indian Villages: Part II (1971) (35)
- Changes in landscape or in interpretation? Reflections based on the environmental and socio-economic history of a village in NE Botswana (1999) (29)
- At Risk. Natural Hazards, People's Vulnerability and Disasters (1996) (28)
- Approaches to the study of land degradation (1987) (25)
- Family planning in India: Diffusion and policy (1977) (24)
- The politics of environmental policy with a Himalayan example (2004) (24)
- Looking at maps in the dark : directions for geographical research in land management and sustainable development in rural and urban environments of the Third World (1998) (24)
- Environmental justice? The story of two projects (2014) (20)
- Class, Land-use and Soil Erosion (1981) (18)
- Paradigms for environment and development (1998) (15)
- The impact of AIDS on food production systems in East and Central Africa over the next ten years: a programmatic paper. (1988) (14)
- Community coping mechanisms in the face of exceptional demographic change. Final report to the Overseas Development Administration. (1990) (14)
- The tsunami of 2004 in Sri Lanka: An introduction to impacts and policy in the shadow of civil war (2009) (13)
- A Review of Political Ecology (1999) (13)
- The challenge of disasters and our approach (2014) (13)
- Environmental Change and Livelihood Diversification in Nepal: Where is the Problem? (1998) (12)
- The Indian Ocean tsunami: reducing risk and vulnerability to future natural disasters and loss of ecosystem services (2005) (12)
- THE DISASTER PRESSURE AND RELEASE MODEL (2004) (11)
- Alternative Development: Unravelling Marginalization, Voicing Change (2014) (11)
- Centre, periphery, and access in west central Nepal : approaches to social and spatial relations of inequality (1977) (10)
- Identifying key land degradation issues and applied research priorities. (1990) (10)
- The Explanation of land Degradation (2019) (7)
- THE EFFECTS OF ROADS IN WEST CENTRAL NEPAL.: PART I, (SUMMARY) (1977) (7)
- Policy as warrant : environment and development in the Himalayan region (2004) (7)
- Patterns of Change in Western Nepal: Rural Households of the 1970s and 1980s Compared (1998) (6)
- Understanding the Diversity of Participatory Forest Management Livelihood and Poverty Impacts (2013) (6)
- Drought Proofing in Rajasthan : Imperatives , Experience and Prospects (2004) (6)
- The Spatial Structure of Information Networks and Innovative Behaviour in the Ziz Valley, Southern Morocco (1973) (6)
- AIDS and food production in East and Central Africa: a research outline. (1989) (6)
- Simple Methods for Monitoring the Socio-Economic Impact of AIDS: Lessons from Sub-Saharan Africa (1993) (5)
- Simple Methods for Monitoring the Socio-Economic Impact of AIDS: Lessons From Research in Uganda and Kenya (1992) (4)
- Reading maps in the dark. Route planning for development geography in a post-ist world (1998) (4)
- Is biocultural heritage a right? A tale of conflicting conservation, development, and biocultural priorities in Dulongjiang, China (2007) (4)
- Policy in High Places (2000) (4)
- Natural resource use in developing countries (1986) (4)
- Decision-making in land management (2015) (2)
- Useful outsiders: building environmental policy reform dossiers (2015) (2)
- Social, Economic and Demographic Impact of HIV/AIDS in Eastern and Southern Africa: An Introduction (1992) (2)
- Classics in human geography revisited (1993) (2)
- A methodology for assessing the potential impact of AIDS upon farming systems in Kenya (1992) (1)
- Common Property Resource Management: New Directions and New Cul-de-Sacs (2014) (1)
- ACCESS TO RESOURCES AND COPING IN ADVERSITY (2004) (1)
- Road provision and the changing role of towns in west-central Nepal (transport planing) (1979) (1)
- Nepal, a state of poverty : the political economy of population growth & social deprivation : a report to the I.L.O. (1983) (1)
- Towards an Engaged Political Ecology (2016) (1)
- Is biocultural heritage a right? A tale of conflicting Is biocultural heritage a right? A tale of conflicting conservation, development, and biocultural conservation, development, and biocultural priorities in Dulongjiang, China priorities in Dulongjiang, China (2007) (1)
- Chapter I Theoretical Framework on Political Ecology and Social Movements (2012) (0)
- Africa: a thief without mercy. (1991) (0)
- Participation in Resource Management: Rhetoric and Reality (2014) (0)
- The relation of transport planning to rural development: the implication of road construction in Nepal (1979) (0)
- Overall prospects for soil conservation (2016) (0)
- AIDS: A Selected and Partially Annotated Bibliography (1992) (0)
- FAMINE AND NATURAL HAZARDS (2004) (0)
- The time and place for political ecology: An introduction to the articles (2008) (0)
- Constructing coherence:doing research on the impact of AIDS - post modernism or eclecticism? (1992) (0)
- Methods Manual for Field Research (LADDER Working Paper 2) (2001) (0)
- Questions from history in the Mediterranean and western Europe (2015) (0)
- Retrospect and prospect (2015) (0)
- Housing the Urban Poor in Metropolitan Accra, Ghana: What is the Role of the State in the Era of Liberalization and Globalization? (2016) (0)
- Biodiversity conservation and rural society in highland Madagascar: worlds apart? (2002) (0)
- A reassessment of findings from an interdisciplinary research on land management and pastoralism (1998) (0)
- Land degradation in socialist countries (2015) (0)
- Access to resources and coping in adversity Access to resources - an introduction (2014) (0)
- Famine and natural hazards Introduction (2014) (0)
- Cultural, political and socio-economic effects of AIDS, HIV and STDs in eastern and southern Africa (1992) (0)
- A distinction between techniques and policies (2016) (0)
- Land use and political economy: a scheme (2016) (0)
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