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Andy Dougill Professor Andy Dougill

Head of School; Professor of Environmental Sustainability

Telephone number: +44(0) 113 34 36782
Email address: a.j.dougill@leeds.ac.uk
Room: 8.105

Biography

Prof Andy Dougill is a dryland environmental change researcher who has developed research approaches that integrate a range of disciplines including soil science, ecology, development studies and environmental social sciences. He has expertise in leading the design and implementation of inter-disciplinary ‘problem-based’ research projects focused on sustainability issues at range of scales in both developing and developed world. Research projects have gained significant external funding from a wide range of sources including NERC, ESRC, Leverhulme Trust, Royal Geographical Society, British Council and DFID.  His work has developed innovative research methodologies for using scientific approaches together with local participation to ensure locally relevant research outputs in both dryland Africa and the UK uplands. He supervises a range of inter-disciplinary PhD projects looking at dryland environmental change and climate adaptation / mitigation issues.

Prof Dougill has been Head of School since August 2008, prior to which he was Deputy Head of School and Director of the Sustainability Research Institute.

Qualifications

  • BSc Geography, University of Sheffield
  • PhD Geography, University of Sheffield

Memberships/Fellowships

  • Fellow of The Royal Geographical Society
  • Member of The British Soil Science Society
  • Committee of Heads of Environmental Science

Research Interests

  • Soil Degradation
  • Agricultural Development
  • Participatory & Envronmental Monitoring.

Publications

  • Mkwambisi, DD; Fraser, EDG; Dougill, AJ (2011) Urban agriculture and poverty reduction: Evaluating how food production in cities contributes to food security, employment and income in Malawi, Journal of International Development, 23, pp.181-203. doi:10.1002/jid.1657
  • Menon, M; Yuan, Q; Jia, X; Dougill, AJ; Hoon, SR; Thomas, AD; Williams, RA (2011) Assessment of physical and hydrological properties of biological soil crusts using X-ray microtomography and modeling, J HYDROL, 397, pp.47-54. doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2010.11.021
  • Reed, MS; Buenemann, M; Atlhopheng, J; Akhtar-Schuster, M; Bachmann, F; Bastin, G; Bigas, H; Chanda, R; Dougill, AJ; Essahli, W; Evely, AC; Geeson, N; Fleskens, L; Glass, JH; Hessel, R; Holden, J; Ioris, AAR; Kruger, B; Liniger, HP; Mphinyane, W; Nainggolan, D; Perkins, J; Raymond, CM; Ritsema, CJ; Schwilch, G; Sebego, R; Seely, M; Stringer, LC; Thomas, R; Twomlow, S; Verzandvoort, S (2011) Cross-scale monitoring and assessment of land degradation and sustainable land management: A methodological framework for knowledge management, Land Degradation & Development, 22, pp.161-171. doi:10.1002/ldr.1087
  • Thomas, AD; Hoon, SR; Dougill, AJ (2011) Soil respiration at five sites along the Kalahari Transect: Effects of temperature, precipitation pulses and biological soil crust cover , GEODERMA, 167-68, pp.284-294. doi:10.1016/j.geoderma.2011.07.034
  • Fraser, EDG; Dougill, AJ; Hubacek, K; Quinn, CH; Sendzimir, J; Termansen, M (2011) Assessing vulnerability to climate change in dryland livelihood systems: conceptual challenges and interdisciplinary solutions , Ecology and Society, 16, .
  • Twyman, C; Fraser, EDG; Stringer, LC; Quinn, C; Dougill, AJ; Ravera, F; Crane, TA; Sallu, SM (2011) Climate Science, Development Practice, and Policy Interactions in Dryland Agroecological Systems, ECOL SOC, 16, . doi:10.5751/ES-04261-160314
  • Goddard, MA; Benton, TG; Dougill, AJ (2010) Beyond the garden fence: landscape ecology of cities. , Trends Ecol Evol, 25, pp.202-203. doi:10.1016/j.tree.2009.12.007
  • Reed, MS; Dougill, AJ (2010) Linking degradation assessment to sustainable land management: A decision support system for Kalahari pastoralists, J ARID ENVIRON, 74, pp.149-155. doi:10.1016/j.jaridenv.2009.06.016
  • Mkwambisi,D D; Fraser, E D G; Dougill, A (2010) Urban Agriculture & Poverty Reduction: Evaluating How Food Production in Cities Contributes to Food Security, Employment and Income in Malawi, Journal of International Development, . doi:10.1002/JID.1657
  • Goddard, MA; Dougill, AJ; Benton, TG (2010) Scaling up from gardens: biodiversity conservation in urban environments., Trends Ecol Evol, 25, pp.90-98. doi:10.1016/j.tree.2009.07.016
  • Stringer, L; Mkwambisi, D; Dougill, AJ; Dyer, JC (2010) Household and policy adaptations to climate change and desertification: perspectives from Malawi, Climate and Development, pp.145-160. doi:10.3763/cdev.2010.0042
  • Dougill, AJ; Fraser, EDG; Reed, MS (2010) Anticipating Vulnerability to Climate Change in Dryland Pastoral Systems: Using Dynamic Systems Models for the Kalahari, ECOL SOC, 15, .
  • Simelton, E; Fraser, EDG; Termansen, M; Forster, PM; Dougill, AJ (2009) Typologies of crop-drought vulnerability: an empirical analysis of the socio-economic factors that influence the sensitivity and resilience to drought of three major food crops in China (1961-2001), ENVIRON SCI POLICY, 12, pp.438-452. doi:10.1016/j.envsci.2008.11.005
  • Stringer, L; Dyer, J; Reed, MS; Dougill, AJ; Twyman, C; Mkwambisi, D (2009) Adaptations to climate change, drought and desertification: insights to enhance policy in southern Africa , Environmental Science and Policy, 12, pp.748-765. doi:10.1016/j.envsci.2009.04.002
  • Reed, MS; Dougill, AJ; Baker, TR (2008) Participatory indicator development: What can ecologists and local communities learn from each other?, ECOL APPL, 18, pp.1253-1269.
  • Thomas, AD; Dougill, AJ (2007) Spatial and temporal distribution of cyanobacterial soil crusts in the Kalahari: Implications for soil surface properties, GEOMORPHOLOGY, 85, pp.17-29. doi:10.1016/j.geomorph.2006.03.029
  • Stringer, LC; Reed, MS; Dougill, AJ; Seely, MK; Rokitzki, M (2007) Implementing the UNCCD: Participatory challenges, NAT RESOUR FORUM, 31, pp.198-211.
  • Reed, MS; Dougill, AJ; Taylor, MJ (2007) Integrating local and scientific knowledge for adaptation to land degradation: Kalahari rangeland management options, LAND DEGRAD DEV, 18, pp.249-268. doi:10.1002/ldr.777
  • Holden, J; Shotbolt, L; Bonn, A; Burt, TP; Chapman, PJ; Dougill, AJ; Fraser, EDG; Hubacek, K; Irvine, B; Kirkby, MJ; Reed, MS; Prell, C; Stagl, S; Stringer, LC; Turner, A; Worrall, F (2007) Environmental change in moorland landscapes, EARTH-SCI REV, 82, pp.75-100. doi:10.1016/j.earscirev.2007.01.003
  • Thomas, AD; Dougill, AJ (2006) Distribution and characteristics of cyanobacterial soil crusts in the Molopo Basin, South Africa, J ARID ENVIRON, 64, pp.270-283. doi:10.1016/j.jaridenv.2005.04.011
  • Stringer, LC; Dougill, AJ; Fraser, E; Hubacek, K; Prell, C; Reed, MS (2006) Unpacking "participation" in the adaptive management of social ecological systems: A critical review, ECOL SOC, 11, .
  • Dougill, AJ; Reed, MS (2006) Frameworks for community-based rangeland sustainability assessment in the Kalahari, Botswana , In: Hill, J; Terry, A; Woodland, W (Ed) Sustainable Development: National Aspirations, Local Implementation, Ashgate Publishing, pp.31-50.
  • Fraser, EDG; Dougill, AJ; Mabee, WE; Reed, M; McAlpine, P (2006) Bottom up and top down: Analysis of participatory processes for sustainability indicator identification as a pathway to community empowerment and sustainable environmental management, J ENVIRON MANAGE, 78, pp.114-127. doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2005.04.009
  • Dougill, AJ; Fraser, EDG; Holden, J; Hubacek, K; Prell, C; Reed, MS; Stagl, S; Stringer, LC (2006) Learning from doing participatory rural research: Lessons from the Peak District National Park , J AGR ECON, 57, pp.259-275.
  • Reed, MS; Fraser, EDG; Dougill, AJ (2006) An adaptive learning process for developing and applying sustainability indicators with local communities , ECOL ECON, 59, pp.406-418. doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2005.11.008
  • Dougill, AJ; Reed, MS (2005) Integrating Community and Scientific Sustainability Indicators to Facilitate Participatory Desertification Monitoring and Sustainable Rangeland Management in Botswana , In: Holland, J; Campbell, J (Ed) Methods, Knowledge and Power: Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Development Research, ITDG Publications.
  • Berkeley, A; Thomas, AD; Dougill, AJ (2005) Cyanobacterial soil crusts and woody shrub canopies in Kalahari rangelands, AFR J ECOL, 43, pp.137-145.
  • Reed, M; Fraser, EDG; Morse, S; Dougill, AJ (2005) Integrating methods for developing sustainability indicators to facilitate learning and action, ECOL SOC, 10, .
  • Dougill, AJ; Thomas, AD (2004) Kalahari sand soils: Spatial heterogeneity, biological soil crusts and land degradation, LAND DEGRADATION & DEVELOPMENT, 15, pp.233-242. doi:10.1002/ldr.611
  • Thomas, AD; Dougill, AJ (2003) Desertification in southern Africa, Geography Review, 17, pp.24-27.
  • Dougill, AJ; Thomas, AD (2002) Nebkha dunes in the Molopo Basin, South Africa and Botswana: formation controls and their validity as indicators of soil degradation, J ARID ENVIRON, 50, pp.413-428. doi:10.1006/jare.2001.0909
  • Reed, MS; Dougill, AJ (2002) Participatory selection process for indicators of rangeland condition in the Kalahari, GEOGR J, 168, pp.224-234.
  • Dougill, AJ; Twyman, C; Thomas, DSG; Sporton, D (2002) Soil degradation assessment in mixed farming systems of southern Africa: use of nutrient balance studies for participatory degradation monitoring, GEOGR J, 168, pp.195-210.
  • Twyman, C; Dougill, AJ; Sporton, D; Thomas, D (2001) A case of community self empowerment, Okonyoka, Eastern Namibia: environmental and policy implications, Review of African Political Economy, 28, pp.9-26.
  • Dougill, AJ; Soussan, JG; Kiff, E; Springate-Baginski, O; Yadav, NP; Dev, OP; Hurford, AP (2001) Impacts of community forestry on farming system sustainability in the Middle Hills of Nepal, LAND DEGRAD DEV, 12, pp.261-276.
  • Dougill, AJ; Thomas, D; Heathwaite, AL (1999) Environmental change in the Kalahari: integrated land degradation studies for non equilibrium dryland environments, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 89, pp.420-442.
  • Dougill, AJ; Trodd, N (1999) Monitoring and modelling open savannas using multisource information: analyses of Kalahari studies, Global Ecology and Biogeography Letters, 8, pp.211-221.
  • Dougill, AJ; Heathwaite, AL; Thomas, D (1998) Soil water movement and nutrient cycling in semi-arid rangeland: vegetation change and system resilience, Hydrological Processes, 12, pp.443-459.
  • Trodd, N; Dougill, AJ (1998) Monitoring vegetation dynamics in semi-arid African rangelands: use and limitations of Earth observation data to characterise vegetation structure, Applied Geography, 18, pp.315-330.
  • Dougill, AJ (1997) Cattle ranching and ecological change in the Kalahari, Botswana: a hydrological perspective, In: Rosbjerg, D (Ed) Sustainability of water resources under increasing uncertainty, Sustainability of water resources under increasing uncertainty, pp.469-477.
  • Reed, MS; Buenemann, M; Atlhopheng, J; Akhtar-Schuster, M; Bachmann, F; Bastin, G; Bigas, H; Chanda, R; Dougill, AJ; Essahli, W; Fleskens, L; Geeson, N; Hessel, R; Holden, J; Ioris, A; Kruger, B; Liniger, HP; Mphinyane, W; Nainggolan, D; Perkins, J; Raymond, CM; Schwilch, G; Sebego, R; Seely, M; Stringer, LC; Thomas, RJ; Twomlow, S; Verzandvoort, S (Not yet published) Cross-scale monitoring and assessment of land degradation and sustainable land management: a methodological framework for knowledge management, Land Degradation and Development, .