Piers Blaikie

TL;DR: The authors argue that the social, political and economic environment is as much a cause of disasters as the natural environment and that the concept of vulnerability is central to an understanding of disasters and their prevention or mitigation, exploring the extent and ways in which people gain access to resources.

TL;DR: In this paper, the challenge of disasters and their approach are discussed, and a framework and theory for disaster mitigation is presented. But the authors do not address the problem of access to resources and coping in adversarial situations.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide a method of analyzing the problems of management and degradation, focusing particularly on the decision making environment of the land users and managers themselves, its great variety through space and time, and the inability of single theories to provide satisfactory explanations.

TL;DR: In this article, a bottom-up approach is proposed to study the political economy of soil erosion, where the focus is first directed to the smallest unit of decision making in the use of land, the family and the household, up to the government and administration.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore approaches to understand and rectify failures of community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) policies and conclude that explanatory effort should be expanded from the "facilitating characteristics" of potentially successful CBNRM sites to include two sets of interfaces between donors and recipient states, and between the state (especially the local state) and CBNRMs at the local level.