Download or read book Centre Periphery and Access in West Central Nepal written by Piers M. Blaikie and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monograph analysing effects of social change on household economic policy in West central Nepal in view of equal opportunity and regional level variation - presents historical background, examines social structure, obstacles to civil service employment due to caste system, ownership, agricultural production, industrial production, trade structure, regional disparity resulting from centralization, and describes objectives of a rural area simulation behaviour model. Bibliography pp. 152 to 159, diagrams, graphs, map, references and statistical tables.
Download or read book At Risk written by Piers M. Blaikie and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the significance of the human factor which is as much of a cause of disasters as the natural environment. Practical and policy conclusions are drawn with a view to disaster reduction and the promotion of safer environments.
Download or read book Development written by Stuart Corbridge and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 1391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume brings together twenty-five of the most influential articles published in the field of development geography since 1960. The first part looks at the origins of development geography and the debates between modernization theorists and radicals that took shape in the 1970s. Thereafter, the book is organized thematically. Geographers have made key contributions to development studies in four major areas, all of which are represented here and include gender and households, development alternatives and identities, resource conflicts and political ecology and globalization and resistance. The book ends with three broad-ranging essays by leading figures in the field.
Download or read book Rural Roads And Poverty Alleviation written by John Howe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses the use of rural road networks and the causes and effects of road programmes in the areas of personal travel, education, health and poverty alleviation. It discusses the criteria which are being used for rural road selection and their impact in Egypt, India, Botswana and Thailand.
Download or read book At Risk written by Piers Blaikie and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-21 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 updated new edition confronts a further ten years of ever more expensive and deadly disasters and discusses disaster not as an aberration, but as a signal failure of mainstream 'development'. Two analytical models are provided as tools for understanding vulnerability. One links remote and distant 'root causes' to 'unsafe conditions' in a 'progression of vulnerability'. The other uses the concepts of 'access' and 'livelihood' to understand why some households are more vulnerable than others. Examining key natural events and incorporating strategies to create a safer world, this revised edition is an important resource for those involved in the fields of environment and development studies.
Download or read book Risk Vulnerability and Tourism in Developing Countries written by Martina Shakya and published by Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH. This book was released on 2009 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "IEE--Institute of Development Research and Development Policy, Ruhr-Universit'at Bochum"--Cover.
Download or read book Tibetan Border Worlds written by Wim Van Spengen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The focus of the study is the Tibetan and Tibetanized border populations in the little known Himalayan high-valley of Nyishang in West Central Nepal close to the Tibetan border. There, a group of traders have greatly extended their external relations over the past century in the form of long-distance trade ventures, thereby thoroughly changing the internal conditions of socio-economic organizations in their home district. The object of the study is to establish whether larger geohistorical processes of structural change may be conceptualized in such a way as to link structuration at the level of the localized social group to the dynamics of the wider regional setting.
Download or read book Political Ecology written by Paul Robbins and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fully updated new edition introduces the core concepts, central thinkers, and major works of the burgeoning field of political ecology. Explores the key arguments and contemporary explanatory challenges facing the sub-discipline Provides the first full history of the development of political ecology over the last century and its theoretical underpinnings Considers the major challenges facing the field now and for the future Study boxes introduce key figures in the development of the discipline and summarize their most important works Fully updated to include recent events, such as the Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill, as well as both urban and rural examples, from the developed and underdeveloped world
Download or read book Land Degradation and Society written by Piers Blaikie and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-07-30 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 the reason why land management can fail are extremely varied, and must include a thorough understanding of the changing natural resource base itself, the human response to this, and broader changes in society, of which land managers are a part. Land Degradation and Society is essential reading for all students of geography, agriculture, social sciences, development studies and related subjects.
Download or read book Himalayan Research Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Handbook of Behavioral and Cognitive Geography written by Daniel R. Montello and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2018-04-27 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive Handbook summarizes existing work and presents new concepts and empirical results from leading scholars in the multidisciplinary field of behavioral and cognitive geography, the study of the human mind, and activity in and concerning space, place, and environment. It provides the broadest and most inclusive coverage of the field so far, including work relevant to human geography, cartography, and geographic information science.
Download or read book Regional Development Dialogue written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 880 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Political Economy of Soil Erosion in Developing Countries written by Piers Blaikie and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-20 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 uncertainty and make explicit the underlying assumptions in the debate about soil erosion. It also rejects the notion that soil erosion is a politically neutral issue and argues that conservation requires fundamental social change. This title will be of interest to students of environmental and developmental studies.
Download or read book The Struggle for Basic Needs in Nepal written by Piers M. Blaikie and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Summary: Research studies on socio-economic conditions and problems in Nepal.
Download or read book Development Studies written by University of Sussex. Institute of Development Studies and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nepal a State of Poverty written by David Seddon and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Political Ecology of Climate Change Adaptation written by Marcus Taylor and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-11-17 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides the first systematic critique of the concept of climate change adaptation within the field of international development. Drawing on a reworked political ecology framework, it argues that climate is not something ‘out there’ that we adapt to. Instead, it is part of the social and biophysical forces through which our lived environments are actively yet unevenly produced. From this original foundation, the book challenges us to rethink the concepts of climate change, vulnerability, resilience and adaptive capacity in transformed ways. With case studies drawn from Pakistan, India and Mongolia, it demonstrates concretely how climatic change emerges as a dynamic force in the ongoing transformation of contested rural landscapes. In crafting this synthesis, the book recalibrates the frameworks we use to envisage climatic change in the context of contemporary debates over development, livelihoods and poverty. With its unique theoretical contribution and case study material, this book will appeal to researchers and students in environmental studies, sociology, geography, politics and development studies.
