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.
Author(s): Max Martin, Vinita Damodaran, Rohan D’Souza
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2019
Language: English
Pages: 244
Tags: History Of Science, Geography, Britain, World War II
Front Matter ....Pages i-xxi
Introduction (Max Martin, Vinita Damodaran, Rohan D’Souza)....Pages 1-15
Reminiscences (A. T. Grove)....Pages 17-36
A Half Century of Developments in Desert Geomorphology and the Place of A. T. Grove (Andrew Goudie)....Pages 37-65
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
Quaternary Dune Systems in Time and Space: The Legacy of A.T. Grove (Nicholas Lancaster)....Pages 93-114
The Changing Human Environments of Eastern Saudi Arabia (Claudio Vita-Finzi)....Pages 115-141
Migrant Birds and the Threatened Sahel: Geographies of Land Use and Degradation (William M. Adams)....Pages 143-169
Mediterranean Forests, Woods and Shrublands (Harriet Allen)....Pages 171-197
From Saharan Palaeoclimates to Al Qaeda and the Islamic State (Jeremy Keenan)....Pages 199-223
Back Matter ....Pages 225-231
