Geography in Britain after World War II

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxi

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2. Introduction

   • Max Martin, Vinita Damodaran, Rohan D’Souza

   Pages 1-15

3. Reminiscences

   • A. T. Grove

   Pages 17-36

4. A Half Century of Developments in Desert Geomorphology and the Place of A. T. Grove

   • Andrew Goudie

   Pages 37-65

5. From the Highlands to the Lowlands and Back Again: Reconstructing Past Environmental Changes in South-Central and Southern Africa

   • Michael E. Meadows

   Pages 67-92

6. Quaternary Dune Systems in Time and Space: The Legacy of A.T. Grove

   • Nicholas Lancaster

   Pages 93-114

7. The Changing Human Environments of Eastern Saudi Arabia

   • Claudio Vita-Finzi

   Pages 115-141

8. Migrant Birds and the Threatened Sahel: Geographies of Land Use and Degradation

   • William M. Adams

   Pages 143-169

9. Mediterranean Forests, Woods and Shrublands

   • Harriet Allen

   Pages 171-197

10. From Saharan Palaeoclimates to Al Qaeda and the Islamic State

    • Jeremy Keenan

    Pages 199-223

11. Back Matter

    Pages 225-231

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Contemporary anxieties about climate change have fueled a growing interest in how landscapes are formed and transformed across spans of time, from decades to millennia. While the discipline of geography has had much to say about how such environmental transformations occur, few studies have focused on the lives of geographers themselves, their ideologies, and how they understand their field. This edited collection illuminates the social and biographical contexts of geographers in postwar Britain who were influenced by and studied under the pioneering geomorphologist, A. T. Grove. These contributors uncover the relationships and networks that shaped their research on diverse terrains from Africa to the Mediterranean, highlighting their shared concerns which have profound implications not only for the study of geography and geomorphology, but also for questions of environmental history, ecological conservation, and human security.

• Climate Change
• Desert Geomorphology
• Desert Ecology
• History of Geography
• Environmental History
• the Mediterranean climate
• A. T. Grove
• Political Ecology
• Geography in Britain
• Environmental change
• Landscape change
• Desert Environments
• Politics of Science
• Politics of Colonialism
• Natural history
• Ecosystems Sciences
• historical geography

• University of Sussex, Brighton, UK

  Max Martin, Vinita Damodaran

• Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

  Rohan D'Souza

Max Martin is Research Associate in the School of Global Studies at the University of Sussex, UK.


Vinita Damodaran is Professor of South Asian History at the University of Sussex, UK.  


Rohan D’Souza is Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies at Kyoto University, Japan.

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