Table Of ContentGeography in Britain
after World War II
Nature, Climate,
and the Etchings of Time
Edited by
Max Martin · Vinita Damodaran
Rohan D’Souza
Geography in Britain after World War II
Max Martin · Vinita Damodaran ·
Rohan D’Souza
Editors
Geography in Britain
after World War II
Nature, Climate, and the Etchings of Time
Editors
Max Martin Vinita Damodaran
University of Sussex University of Sussex
Brighton, UK Brighton, UK
Rohan D’Souza
Kyoto University
Kyoto, Japan
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In memory of Jean Grove 1927–2001
A
cknowledgements
This collection of essays is the result of a workshop in February 2017
held at the University of Sussex in honour of Dick Grove. In putting
together this festschrift meeting the organisers were keen to recognise
Dick’s outstanding contribution to the field of Geomorphology and
Geography. 2019 is the centenary year of the Department of Geography
in Cambridge and Dick has been a member of that department for over
seventy years both as an undergraduate and later as researcher and faculty
member. He is in fact the longest serving member of that department.
While many of his contributions are known in the form of his numer-
ous publications what is less known about is the formidable circle of stu-
dents that he accumulated over the years and the intellectual networks
that he set up that spanned continents and periods. When we organised
the meeting several of his students travelled long distances to be with us
notably Michael Meadows and Gloria Punjetti and we thank them for
this. Those who sent their apologies included Bill Adams, Nick Clifford
and Michael Chislom though Bill contributed to the essays. The collec-
tion is by no means a comprehensive record of Dick’s influence in the
field or of the numerous students he supervised over a prolonged period,
but it goes in some way to record their gratitude for his enormous dedi-
cation to the field of geography and his friendship acquired in the course
of their engagement with him as a tutor and supervisor. Many of them
are leaders in this field on their own terms and this itself is a remarkable
testimony to Grove’s mentorship and training.
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viii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The book that succeeded this meeting is a result of the vision of our
publisher Palgrave who embraced the importance of the role of bio-
graphical narrative in the history of science and we would like to thank
the Palgrave editors for this and the unknown reader who gave it a high
billing. Vinita would particularly like to thank Richard Grove and Edwin
Grove for their inspiration for this volume. The following individuals
made the meeting possible and have also contributed to the final volume.
They include Mick Frogley, Saumya Ranjan Nath, Soumanas Koulagi
and Michael Rayner. The success of the conference would not have hap-
pened without the support of Dick’s family who joined us for the day
and they include his wife Ann, his daughters Jane and Alison, his brother
Jonny and his niece Kate. Dick’s influence cuts across family and students
and across generations and several of his grandchildren are in related
fields. This is in part a legacy of his inclusive ways of researching and
training in the field from the 1950s with students and family members
travelling together on memorable expeditions to Norway, Switzerland
and Africa in his trusted Land Rover. Long may his legacy continue.
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ontents
1 Introduction 1
Max Martin, Vinita Damodaran and Rohan D’Souza
2 Reminiscences 17
A. T. Grove
3 A Half Century of Developments in Desert
Geomorphology and the Place of A. T. Grove 37
Andrew Goudie
4 From the Highlands to the Lowlands and Back Again:
Reconstructing Past Environmental Changes
in South-Central and Southern Africa 67
Michael E. Meadows
5 Quaternary Dune Systems in Time and Space:
The Legacy of A.T. Grove 93
Nicholas Lancaster
6 The Changing Human Environments of Eastern
Saudi Arabia 115
Claudio Vita-Finzi
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7 Migrant Birds and the Threatened Sahel: Geographies
of Land Use and Degradation 143
William M. Adams
8 Mediterranean Forests, Woods and Shrublands 171
Harriet Allen
9 From Saharan Palaeoclimates to Al Qaeda
and the Islamic State 199
Jeremy Keenan
Index 225
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otes on ontributors
William M. Adams is Moran Professor of Conservation and Development
in the Department of Geography and Fellow of Downing College at the
University of Cambridge, UK. William M. Adams research approaches
questions of environmental development and conservation from perspec-
tives of political ecology and environmental history. He has carried out
fieldwork in the UK and a number of African countries, looking in particu-
lar at the political ecology of water development and wildlife conservation.
His current interests concern the ways in which new technologies reshape
understanding of nature and conservation practice. He has an M.Sc. in
Conservation from University College London and a Ph.D. in Geography
from Cambridge.
Harriet Allen is University Senior Lecturer in the Department
of Geography and Fellow of Girton College at the University of
Cambridge, UK. Allen’s research focuses on Mediterranean evergreen
ecosystems. She uses remote sensing for modelling vegetation structure
and land cover changes in Mediterranean environments. She has served
as Chair of the Biogeography Research Group of the Royal Geographical
Society-Institute of British Geographers, and she is a Coordinating
Editor for the journal Landscape Ecology. She has an M.A. Geography
from the University of Cambridge, M.Sc. Geography from the University
of Calgary, Alberta, Canada, and a Ph.D., also from Cambridge.
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