[PDF] The Political Economy Of Soil Erosion In The Developing Countries eBook

Author : Piers Blaikie
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 27,7 MB
Release : 2016-05-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1317268385

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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.

Author : Piers M. Blaikie
Publisher :
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 27,17 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Agriculture and politics
ISBN : 9780047204197

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The issues addressed; Is soil erosion really a problem?; A review of techniques and policies; Why do policies usually fail?; A new approachwith new problems; The exploitation of natural resources and labour;Understanding why soil erosion occurs; The other side of the coin; What now?

Author : Julian Morris
Publisher : Institute of Economic Affairs
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 46,16 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :

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The root causes of land degradation are the actions of political entrepreneurs, aid agencies, and governments of developing countries who misuse 'aid' money. Only when individuals are permitted to own property, especially land and water, to engage in free trade, and to resolve disputes through customary law, will the problems of land degradation, poverty, and hunger be reduced to acceptable levels.

Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 42,57 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789251046296

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Contents: Dirt poor: poverty, farmers and soil resource investment/ by Leslie Lipper; Methodological issues in analysing the linkages between socio-eocnomic and environmental systems/ by Dan Osgood and Leslie Lipper. Includes 1-page abstracts in French, Spanish and Arabic

Author : Piers Blaikie
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 48,62 MB
Release : 2015-07-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 1317411943

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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.

Author : Michael O'Neal Campbell
Publisher : Nova Science Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 18,94 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Africa, West
ISBN : 9781624172588

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This text looks at theories of nature-society relations and development, applied to soil erosion and environmental change in West Africa, and Ghana. Acknowledging the importance of power relations for environmental management, the book begins with an examination of the field of political ecology, alternately the political economy of the environment. It assesses the role of this sub-discipline within geography and anthropology, and its role in practical conservation planning and the management of soil erosion.

Author : Olaf C. A. Erenstein
Publisher :
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 21,89 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Conservation tillage
ISBN :

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