<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Empirical research into social vulnerability – and into strategies that allow people to persist or secure their existence – has most often concerned itself with peripheral, poorly-developed regions with a long history of shortages; frequently even ones in which a failure to solve socio-political problems over decades or even centuries, manifests itself in a permanent crisis. One such region is north–western Peru, presented in this article by the authors who have proceeded on the assumption that the socioeconomic development of the country’s mountainous areas (including Frías, the district selected for study) not only reflects a peripheral location as regards central areas of Peru and the department of Piura, but is also an outcome of the workings of political and environmental factors that do not help sustain (or in many cases even obstruct) processes of development.</p></abstract>

Empirical research into social vulnerability – and into strategies that allow people to persist or secure their existence – has most often concerned itself with peripheral, poorly-developed regions with a long history of shortages; frequently even ones in which a failure to solve socio-political problems over decades or even centuries, manifests itself in a permanent crisis. One such region is north–western Peru, presented in this article by the authors who have proceeded on the assumption that the socioeconomic development of the country’s mountainous areas (including Frías, the district selected for study) not only reflects a peripheral location as regards central areas of Peru and the department of Piura, but is also an outcome of the workings of political and environmental factors that do not help sustain (or in many cases even obstruct) processes of development.

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University of Warsaw Faculty of Geography and Regional Development Institute of Regional and Global Studies, Department of Geography and Development, and Territorial Planning Poland

Centro de Investigación en Geografía Aplicada Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú Peru

Department of Cartography and Geomatic, Faculty of Earth Sciences and Spatial Management, University of Marie Curie-Sklodowska in Lublin, Poland

Miscellanea Geographica

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The peripheries of development: development and labour in circumstances of constant shortages, as exemplified by the Frías district of Peru

Empirical research into social vulnerability – and into strategies that allow people to persist or secure their existence – has most often concerned itself...

The peripheries of development: development and labour in circumstances of constant shortages, as exemplified by the Frías district of Peru*

Published Online: Oct 26, 2015

Page range: 43 - 55

Received: Nov 01, 2014

Accepted: Sep 14, 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/mgrsd-2015-0019

Keywords
Rural development, vulnerability, sustainability, Peru, Sierra de Piura, local labour market

© 2015 Miroslawa Czerny et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This chapter is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Public License.

The peripheries of development: development and labour in circumstances of constant shortages, as exemplified by the Frías district of Peru*

Published Online: Oct 26, 2015

Page range: 43 - 55

Received: Nov 01, 2014

Accepted: Sep 14, 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/mgrsd-2015-0019

KeywordsRural development, vulnerability, sustainability, Peru, Sierra de Piura, local labour market

© 2015 Miroslawa Czerny et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This chapter is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Public License.

Keywords
Rural development, vulnerability, sustainability, Peru, Sierra de Piura, local labour market