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British geographer, born 1958
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- Bachelors Geography University of Oxford
- Masters Geography University of Oxford
- PhD Geography University of Oxford
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, David S. G. Thomas is a British scientist and geographer. He was born at his parents' home in River, near Dover, Kent, UK, in October 1958. He is Professor of geography at the University of Oxford, the fifth person to hold the Statuary Chair, and a Professorial Fellow of Hertford College, Oxford.
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Published Works
- World atlas of desertification. (1994) (1637)
- The effect of environmental change on human migration (2011) (829)
- Adaptation to climate change and variability: farmer responses to intra-seasonal precipitation trends in South Africa (2007) (650)
- Equity and justice in climate change adaptation amongst natural-resource-dependent societies (2005) (600)
- The Kalahari environment (1992) (453)
- Effective livelihood adaptation to climate change disturbance: Scale dimensions of practice in Mozambique (2008) (372)
- Migration, immobility and displacement outcomes following extreme events (2013) (358)
- Remobilization of southern African desert dune systems by twenty-first century global warming (2005) (302)
- Desertification: Exploding the Myth (1994) (256)
- Multiple episodes of aridity in southern Africa since the last interglacial period (1997) (229)
- Dune mobility and vegetation cover in the Southwest Kalahari desert (1995) (217)
- Evaluating Successful Livelihood Adaptation to Climate Variability and Change in Southern Africa (2010) (202)
- Spreading deserts or spatially confined environmental impacts? land degradation and cattle ranching in the kalahari desert of botswana (1993) (180)
- Good or bad rangeland? Hybrid knowledge, science, and local understandings of vegetation dynamics in the Kalahari (2004) (177)
- Late Quaternary environmental change in central southern Africa: new data, synthesis, issues and prospects (2002) (172)
- The geomorphology of the Anthropocene: emergence, status and implications (2015) (165)
- Science and the desertification debate (1997) (164)
- Climate change adaptation: Linking indigenous knowledge with western science for effective adaptation (2018) (156)
- Migration and global environmental change (2011) (148)
- Sedimentation and diagenesis of Chinese loess: Implications for the preservation of continuous, high-resolution climate records (2006) (144)
- Reinterpreting climate proxy records from late Quaternary Chinese loess : A detailed OSL investigation (2007) (138)
- Linear dune accumulation chronologies from the southwest Kalahari, Namibia: challenges of reconstructing late Quaternary palaeoenvironments from aeolian landforms (2008) (129)
- Late Quaternary linear dune accumulation and chronostratigraphy of the southwestern Kalahari: implications for aeolian palaeoclimatic reconstructions and predictions of future dynamics (2007) (127)
- Knowing, farming and climate change adaptation in North-Central Namibia (2011) (124)
- Environmental Change in the Kalahari: Integrated Land Degradation Studies for Nonequilibrium Dryland Environments (1999) (122)
- A record of rapid Holocene climate change preserved in hyrax middens from southwestern Africa (2009) (122)
- Rates of dust deposition between 50 ka and 20 ka revealed by OSL dating at Yuanbao on the Chinese Loess Plateau (2007) (116)
- Dune activity as a record of late Quaternary aridity in the Northern Kalahari: new evidence from northern Namibia interpreted in the context of regional arid and humid chronologies (2000) (115)
- Mega-Lake in the Kalahari: A Late Pleistocene record of the Palaeolake Makgadikgadi system (2009) (112)
- Focus on environmental risks and migration: causes and consequences (2015) (111)
- Late Pleistocene wetting and drying in the NW Kalahari: an integrated study from the Tsodilo Hills, Botswana (2003) (107)
- Optical dating of abrupt shifts in the late Pleistocene East Asian monsoon (2008) (102)
- Salinization: new perspectives on a major desertification issue (1993) (102)
- Punctuated aridity in southern Africa during the last glacial cycle: The chronology of linear dune construction in the northeastern Kalahari (1998) (96)
- Aeolian system responses to global change: challenges of scale, process and temporal integration (2008) (95)
- Dunefield Activity and Interactions with Climatic Variability in the Southwest Kalahari Desert (1997) (93)
- Analysis of linear sand dune morphological variability, southwestern Kalahari desert (1995) (92)
- Interpreting geoproxies of late Quaternary climate change in African drylands: Implications for understanding environmental change and early human behaviour (2012) (91)
- Multiphase late Quaternary aeolian sediment accumulation in western South Africa: Timing and relationship to palaeoclimatic changes inferred from the marine record (2007) (89)
- The Anthropocene: is there a geomorphological case? (2013) (88)
- The Timing and Environmental Significance of Late Quaternary Linear Dune Development in Western Zambia (1999) (85)
- Dunefield activity response to climate variability in the southwest Kalahari (2005) (84)
- Airflow and roughness characteristics over partially vegetated linear dunes in the southwest Kalahari Desert (1996) (83)
- Multiphase Quaternary highstands at Lake Ngami, Kalahari, northern Botswana (2007) (80)
- New chronological evidence for the nature and timing of linear dune development in the southwest Kalahari Desert (1997) (79)
- Late glacial interhemispheric climate dynamics revealed in South African hyrax middens (2011) (77)
- Flooding, resettlement, and change in livelihoods: evidence from rural Mozambique. (2013) (76)
- Holocene aeolian activity in the southwestern Kalahari Desert, southern Africa: significance and relationships to late-Pleistocene dune-building events (1997) (74)
- Late Quaternary highstands at Lake Chilwa, Malawi: Frequency, timing and possible forcing mechanisms in the last 44 ka (2009) (74)
- Ancient Ergs of the Former Arid Zones of Zimbabwe, Zambia and Angola (1984) (73)
- Central southern Africa at the time of the African Humid Period: A new analysis of Holocene palaeoenvironmental and palaeoclimate data. (2013) (73)
- The environmental impact of livestock ranches in the Kalahari, Botswana: natural resource use, ecological change and human response in a dynamic dryland system (2000) (70)
- Extending the aridity record of the Southwest Kalahari: current problems and future perspectives (2003) (69)
- Late Quaternary hydrological dynamics in the Middle Kalahari: Forcing and feedbacks (2009) (69)
- Effect of vegetation removal on airflow patterns and dune dynamics in the southwest Kalahari desert (1994) (68)
- Tracking desertification on the Mongolian steppe through NDVI and field-survey data (2011) (68)
- Late Quaternary dune accumulation along the western margin of South Africa: distinguishing forcing mechanisms through the analysis of migratory dune forms (2006) (68)
- Causal processes of soil salinization in Tunisia, Spain and Hungary (2001) (68)
- Sandstorm in a teacup? Understanding desertification (1993) (68)
- The INQUA Dunes Atlas chronologic database (2016) (66)
- The Namib Sand Sea digital database of aeolian dunes and key forcing variables (2010) (66)
- WIND ENERGY VARIATIONS IN THE SOUTHWESTERN KALAHARI DESERT AND IMPLICATIONS FOR LINEAR DUNEFIELD ACTIVITY (1996) (64)
- Soil water movement and nutrient cycling in semi-arid rangeland : vegetation change and system resilience (1998) (64)
- Luminescence-based dune chronologies in southern Africa: Analysis and interpretation of dune database records across the subcontinent (2016) (64)
- Late Quaternary lake-level fluctuations in the Mababe Depression: Middle Kalahari palaeolakes and the role of Zambezi inflows (2008) (62)
- Complex Holocene lunette dune development, South Africa : Implications for paleoclimate and models of pan development in arid regions (2006) (62)
- Drought dynamics on the Mongolian steppe, 1970–2006 (2011) (59)
- Duricrust development and valley evolution: Process–landform links in the Kalahari (1994) (58)
- Estimating aerodynamic roughness over complex surface terrain (2013) (58)
- Late Quaternary palaeoenvironments of the winter-rainfall zone of southern Africa: Palynological and sedimentological evidence from the Agulhas Plain (2006) (58)
- Examining the potential of high sampling resolution OSL dating of Chinese loess (2007) (58)
- The deposition and development of the Kalahari Group sediments, Central Southern Africa (1990) (57)
- Understanding linear dune chronologies: Insights from a simple accumulation model (2010) (57)
- Late Cainozoic drainage evolution in the Zambezi basin: Geomorphological evidence from the Kalahari rim (1988) (56)
- Desert dune activity: concepts and significance (1992) (54)
- Late Quaternary fluvial activity in the dry valleys (mekgacha) of the Middle and Southern Kalahari, southern Africa (1992) (51)
- Climatic and sea level controls on Late Quaternary eolian activity on the Agulhas Plain, South Africa (2006) (51)
- ‘Where is the life in farming?’: The viability of smallholder farming on the margins of the Kalahari, Southern Africa (2004) (50)
- A quantitative approach to understanding dated dune stratigraphies (2014) (49)
- Late Quaternary lunette dune sedimentation in the southwestern Kalahari desert, South Africa: luminescence based chronologies of aeolian activity (2002) (49)
- The Quaternary Palaeoenvironmental history of the Kalahari, Southern Africa (1996) (47)
- Holocene fluctuations of Lake Ngami, Middle Kalahari: chronology and responses to climatic change (2003) (47)
- Challenges of calculating dunefield mobility over the 21st century (2004) (46)
- A multi-proxy analysis of the Holocene humid phase from the United Arab Emirates and its implications for southeast Arabia's Neolithic populations (2015) (45)
- Analysis of linear dune sediment‐form relationships in the Kalahari dune desert (1988) (44)
- Combating Land Degradation through Participatory Means: The Case of Swaziland (2007) (44)
- Explaining spatial variations in climate hazard impacts in western Mongolia (2014) (44)
- Late Quaternary chronology of major dune ridge development in the northeast Rub' al-Khali, United Arab Emirates (2011) (44)
- Siliceous duricrusts as palaeoclimatic indicators: evidence from the Kalahari desert of Botswana (1994) (44)
- Present day lunette sediment cycling at Witpan in the arid southwestern Kalahari Desert (1993) (43)
- Late Quaternary palaeohydrological changes in the northern Namib Sand Sea: New chronologies using OSL dating of interdigitated aeolian and water-lain interdune deposits (2010) (43)
- Pressurised pastoralism in South Gobi, Mongolia: what is the role of drought? (2009) (41)
- Lunette dunes in southern Africa (1986) (41)
- Modes of linear dune activity and their palaeoenvironmental significance: an evaluation with reference to southern African examples (1993) (41)
- Soil degradation assessment in mixed farming systems of southern Africa: use of nutrient balance studies for participatory degradation monitoring (2002) (40)
- A Holocene–late Pleistocene aeolian record from lunette dunes of the western Free State panfield, South Africa (2008) (40)
- Migration, Environmental Change, and the ‘Challenges of Governance’ (2012) (40)
- Reproducibility and utility of dune luminescence chronologies (2014) (40)
- Geomorphological contributions to palaeolimnology on the African continent (2009) (39)
- Reconstructing paleoenvironments and palaeoclimates in drylands: what can landform analysis contribute? (2013) (39)
- Testing the performance of state-of-the-art dust emission schemes using DO4Models field data (2014) (38)
- The nature and depositional setting of arid and semi-arid Kalahari sediments, Southern Africa (1988) (37)
- Monitoring environmental change and degradation in the irrigated oases of the Northern Sahara (2014) (36)
- Development and Environmental Significance of an Eolian Sand Ramp of Last-Glacial Age, Central Iran (1997) (36)
- The utility of desert sand dunes as Quaternary chronostratigraphic archives: evidence from the northeast Rub' al Khali (2013) (35)
- Casting new light on late Quaternary environmental and palaeohydrological change in the Namib Desert: A review of the application of optically stimulated luminescence in the region (2013) (34)
- Relict ' desert dune systems: interpretations and problems (1991) (34)
- Understanding the dynamics of social and environmental variability (1997) (34)
- The evolution and characteristics of the Kalahari, southern Africa (1993) (34)
- Arid Environments: Their Nature and Extent (2011) (34)
- Extreme events as drivers of early human behaviour in Africa? The case for variability, not catastrophic drought (2012) (32)
- Rapid age assessment in the Namib Sand Sea using a portable luminescence reader (2015) (32)
- Sustainable Livelihoods in Kalahari Environments: A Contribution to Global Debates (2002) (32)
- Optically Stimulated Luminescence (OSL) dating and palaeoenvironmental studies of pan (playa) sediment from Witpan, South Africa. (2009) (31)
- Discrimination of depositional environments using sedimentary characteristics in the Mega Kalahari, central southern Africa (1987) (31)
- Outcomes of Social and Environmental Change in the Kalahari of Botswana: the Role of Migration* (1999) (31)
- Governance of the irrigation commons under integrated water resources management – A comparative study in contemporary rural China (2016) (30)
- Late Quaternary humidity and aridity dynamics in the northeast Rub' al-Khali, United Arab Emirates: Implications for early human dispersal and occupation of eastern Arabia (2013) (26)
- Community fencing in open rangelands: self‐empowerment in Eastern Namibia (2001) (25)
- Learning to reduce degradation on Swaziland's arable land: enhancing understandings of Striga asiatica (2007) (24)
- The multidimensional nature of biodiversity and social dynamics and implications for contemporary rural livelihoods in remote Kalahari settlements, Botswana. (2009) (23)
- Geomorphic evidence for late Quaternary environmental change from the eastern Great Karoo margin, South Africa (2002) (23)
- From landform to process: Morphology and formation of lake-bed barchan dunes, Makgadikgadi, Botswana (2012) (22)
- The dynamism of salt crust patterns on playas (2015) (22)
- Is there evidence for global‐scale forcing of Southern Hemisphere Quaternary desert dune accumulation? A quantitative method for testing hypotheses of dune system development (2017) (22)
- Holocene development of multiple dune generations in the northeast Rub’ al-Khali, United Arab Emirates (2012) (22)
- From landform to process: Morphology and formation of lake-bed barchan dunes, Makgadikgadi, Botswana (2012) (22)
- From Global Politics to Local Land Users: Applying the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Swaziland (2007) (21)
- EVIDENCE FOR LAND DEGRADATION FROM AEOLIAN SEDIMENT IN THE WEST‐CENTRAL FREE STATE PROVINCE, SOUTH AFRICA (2012) (21)
- Holocene landscape dynamics in the Ghaggar-Hakra palaeochannel region at the northern edge of the Thar Desert, northwest India (2019) (21)
- Measurements of windblown dust characteristics and ocean fertilization potential: The ephemeral river valleys of Namibia (2017) (21)
- Community fencing in open rangelands: a case study of community self-empowerment in Eastern Namibia. (2002) (20)
- Interpreting and modelling late Quaternary dune accumulation in the southern Arabian Peninsula (2014) (20)
- The Edge of the City (1990) (19)
- Landscape sensitivity and ecological change in western Zambia: The long‐term perspective from dambo cut‐and‐fill sediments (2015) (19)
- NGOs, elite capture and community-driven development: perspectives in rural Mozambique (2013) (18)
- Iron and nutrient content of wind-erodible sediment in the ephemeral river valleys of Namibia (2017) (18)
- The Zambezi River: tectonism, climatic change and drainage evolution — is there really evidence for a catastrophic flood? A discussion (1992) (17)
- Allostratigraphy and Quaternary dune sediments: Not all bounding surfaces are the same (2013) (15)
- Allostratigraphy and Quaternary dune sediments: Not all bounding surfaces are the same (2013) (15)
- The nature of publishing and assessment in Geography and Environmental Studies: evidence from the Research Assessment Exercise 2008 (2009) (14)
- Seasonal and intra-seasonal rainfall and drought characteristics as indicators of climate change and variability in Southern Africa: a focus on Kabwe and Livingstone in Zambia (2020) (14)
- A 180 ka record of environmental change at Erdut (Croatia): a new chronology for the loess–palaeosol sequence and its implications for environmental interpretation (2020) (13)
- Spatial variability of ocean fertilizing nutrients in the dust‐emitting ephemeral river catchments of Namibia (2018) (13)
- Divergent processes and trends of desertification in Inner Mongolia and Mongolia (2021) (13)
- Implications of a new chronology for the interpretation of the Middle and Later Stone Age of the upper Zambezi Valley (2019) (13)
- Analysis of late Quaternary dunefield development in Asia using the accumulation intensity model (2019) (12)
- Holocene fluvial valley fill sources of atmospheric mineral dust in the Skeleton Coast, Namibia (2017) (12)
- Controls on sand ramp formation in southern Namibia (2018) (11)
- Geomorphology in the tropics: A study of weathering and denudation in the low latitudes: M. F. Thomas, John Wiley and Sons, Chichester, 1994. ISBN 0-471-93035-0; £75.00. Hardback, 460 pp (1997) (10)
- Aeolian Landscapes and Bedforms (2011) (10)
- Using post-IR IRSL and OSL to date young (< 200 yrs) dryland aeolian dune deposits (2019) (9)
- Holocene Dune Activity in the Thar Desert, India (2019) (8)
- Analysis of late Quaternary linear dune development in the Thar Desert, India (2019) (8)
- Dumb-bells: a plotting convention for “mixed” grain size populations (1990) (7)
- Sustainable development in drylands: geographical contributions to a better understanding of people–environment relationships (2002) (7)
- The Implications for Governance of Migration Linked to Environmental Change: Key Findings and New Research Directions (2012) (7)
- Desertification: the uneasy interface between science, people & environmental issues in Africa (1997) (6)
- Lessons from a lakebed: unpicking hydrological change and early human landscape use in the Makgadikgadi basin, Botswana (2022) (6)
- Environmental change and migration as adaptation in rural economies: evidence from Zambia’s rural–rural migration (2019) (6)
- Private sector adaptive capacity to climate change impacts in the food system: food security implications for South Africa and Brazil (2012) (5)
- Thriving in the Thirstland: New Stone Age sites from the Middle Kalahari, Botswana (2022) (5)
- Uneven surface moisture as a driver of dune formation on ephemeral lake beds under conditions similar to the present day: A model‐based assessment from the Makgadikgadi Basin, northern Botswana (2021) (5)
- Making Points: The Middle Stone Age lithic industry of the Makgadikgadi Basin, Botswana (2022) (5)
- Sand ramps as palaeoenvironmental archives: Integrating general principles and regional contexts through reanalysis of the Klipkraal Sands, South Africa (2018) (5)
- Complex disturbance‐driven reactivation of near‐surface sediments in the largest dunefield in North America during the last 200 years (2019) (5)
- Lacustrine geoarchaeology in the central Kalahari: Implications for Middle Stone Age behaviour and adaptation in dryland conditions (2022) (5)
- The environmental impact of groundwater exploitation in African grasslands: examples and a case study from the Kalahari Region. (2003) (4)
- Quaternary Climate Variation in Southern Africa (2019) (4)
- A tale of two signals: Global and local influences on the Late Pleistocene loess sequences in Bulgarian Lower Danube (2021) (4)
- Late Quaternary dune development along the western margin of South Africa and its relationship to paleoclimatic changes inferred from the marine record (2007) (4)
- Mapping Middle Stone Age human mobility in the Makgadikgadi Pans (Botswana) through multi-site geochemical provenancing of silcrete artefacts (2022) (4)
- International Benchmarking Review of UK Physical Geography (2017) (3)
- Geomorphology of desert environments edited by A. D. Abrahams and A. J. Parsons, Chapman and Hall, London, 1994. No. of pages: x +674. Price: £85.00. ISBN 0-412-44480-1 (1994) (3)
- Cattle ranching and ecological change in the Kalahari, Botswana : a hydrological perspective. (1997) (3)
- Post-depositional disturbance and spatial organization at exposed open-air sites: Examples from the Middle Stone Age of the Makgadikgadi Basin, Botswana (2022) (3)
- Identifying chronostratigraphic breaks in aeolian sediment profiles using near-surface luminescence dating and changepoint analysis (2018) (3)
- Holocene fluvial depositional regimes of the Huab River, Skeleton Coast, Namibia (2022) (2)
- Plumes and blooms - Locally-sourced Fe-rich aeolian mineral dust drives phytoplankton growth off southwest Africa. (2022) (2)
- Experts address the question: “Are poverty and land degradation inevitable in desert‐prone areas?” (2008) (2)
- Successful adaptation: Social networks, institutions and climate change (2010) (2)
- 11.18 Aeolian Paleoenvironments of Desert Landscapes (2013) (2)
- Analysing the potential for CAM-fed bio-economic uses in sub-Saharan Africa (2021) (2)
- Soil water movement and nutrient cycling in semi-arid rangeland:implications for patterns of vegetation change and system resilience. (1998) (2)
- Late Quaternary aridity in the southwestern Kalahari Desert: New contributions from Optically Simulated Luminescence (OSL) dating of aeolian deposits, northern Cape Province, South Africa (2020) (1)
- Techniques for desert reclamation edited by Andrew S. Goudie, John Wiley And Sons, Chichester, U.K., 1990. No. of Pages: 271. Price: £39.95. ISBN 0‐471‐921793 (1991) (1)
- Effect of Water–Rock Interaction on the Axial Capacity of Drilled Caissons Socketed in Claystone Bedrock (2021) (1)
- Future Climate Change and Arid Zone Geomorphology (2011) (1)
- Quantifying Mechanisms of Aeolian Dust Emission: Field Measurements at Etosha Pan, Namibia (2022) (1)
- Morphology and controls of the mountain-front fan systems of the Hajar Mountains, south-east Arabia (2023) (0)
- Grove AT (1969) Landforms and climate change in the Kalahari and Ngamiland. Geographical Journal 135: 191—212 (2011) (0)
- Book reviews: Deacon, J. and Lancaster, N. 1988: Late Quaternary palaeoenvironments of southern Africa. Oxford: Clarendon Press. viii + 225 pp. £30.00 cloth (1989) (0)
- Soil conservation and sustainable land use: An economic approach, J. de Graaff, Royal Tropical Institute, Amsterdam 1993, ISBN 90 68320424 (paperback), 191 pp (1994) (0)
- BOOK REVIEWS (2009) (0)
- Water, power and IWRM (Integrated water resources management): a comparative study of village water governance in arid and semi-arid Northwest China (2014) (0)
- Rapid assessment of Namib Sand Sea sediment chronologies?: Testing a portable luminescence reader against full OSL dating. (2016) (0)
- Life on the edge or living in the middle? New perspectives on southern Africa's Middle Stone Age (2023) (0)
- Dune Paleoenvironments (2021) (0)
- Maintaining opportunism and mobility in drylands: the impact of veterinary cordon fences in Botswana (2008) (0)
- A chronological database assessing the late Quaternary palaeoenvironmental record from fluvial sediments in southwestern Africa (2022) (0)
- Dryland System Variability (2011) (0)
- Dr Stephen Stokes, 1964–2014 (2014) (0)
- Book Review: The Physical Geography of Africa edited by William M. Adams, Andrew S. Goudie and Anthony R. Orme, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1996. No. of pages: xxii+429. Price: £48 hardback. ISBN 0‐19‐828875‐1. (1997) (0)
- The Men Who Would Not March: The Surrender of Concordia, Namaqualand, April 1902 (2011) (0)
- Can dryland geoproxy data generate Quaternary palaeoclimate and palaeoenvironmental records (2017) (0)
- Exploring the use of sand ramps as novel archives of Late Quaternary environmental change in Southern Africa (2016) (0)
- A comparison in species distribution model performance of succulents using key species and subsets of environmental predictors (2022) (0)
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