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Piers Blaikie  

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  • Piers Macleod Blaikie, professor emeritus at the School of International Studies at the University of East Anglia, has been one of the principal voices in political ecology (PE) from its inception, providing decades of pathbreaking thinking, research, and writing. Blaikie received his geography degrees from Cambridge University, was assigned to the department of geography at the University of Reading (1968–1972), and then moved to East Anglia, where he remained for 33 years in the School of Development Studies (now the School of International Development). [Source: Encyclopedia of Geography; Blaikie, Piers (1942–)]

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