Piers Blaikie: 3 books

This book arose out of a research project funded by the Ministry of Overseas Development in the United Kingdom to investigate the economic and social effects of the building of three roads in West-Central Nepal.

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...

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...