DR ALAN GRAINGER

CONTACT DETAILS
Room G31
School of Geography
University of Leeds
Leeds LS2 9JT
UK

Email: a.grainger@leeds.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0 in UK) 113 34 33335



Student hours:
Tuesday 1145-1345

PUBLICATIONS

Papers (since 2000)

  • Grainger A., Stafford Smith M., Glenn E.P. and Squires V.R., 2000. Desertification and climate change: the case for greater convergence. Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change 5: 361-377.
  • Grainger A., 2001. Tropical moist forests and development. In Desai V. and Potter R.B. (eds). Arnold Companion to Development Studies: 310-318. Hodder Arnold, London.
  • Matthews E. and Grainger A., 2002. Evaluation of FAO's Global Forest Assessment from the user perspective. Unasylva 53 (210): 42-50.
  • Rose S. and Grainger A., 2002. Multivariate mapping of spatial variation in biodiversity in Peruvian Amazonia. Diversity and Distributions 9: 237-250.
  • Grainger, A., Francisco, H.A. and Tiraswat, P., 2003. The impact of changes in agricultural technology on long-term trends in deforestation. Land Use Policy 20: 209-223.
  • Grainger A., 2004. Societal change and the control of deforestation in Thailand.International Journal of Sustainable Development 11: 364-379.
  • Bradley D. and Grainger A., 2004. Social resilience as a controlling influence on desertification in Senegal. Land Degradation and Development 15: 451-470.
  • Miles L., Grainger A. and Phillips O., 2004. Impact of global climate change on tropical forest biodiversity in Amazonia. Global Ecology and Biogeography 13: 553-565.
  • Thomas, C.D., Cameron, C., Green, R.E., Bakkenes, M., Beaumont, L.B., Collingham, Y.C., Erasmus, B.F.N., de Siqueira, M.F. , Grainger, A., Hannah, L., Hughes, L., Huntley, B., van Jaarsveld, A.S., Midgley, G.F., Miles L., Ortega-Huerta, M.A., Peterson, A.T., Phillips, O.L. and Williams, S.E., 2004. Extinction risk from climate change. Nature 247: 145-148.
  • Grainger A., 2004. Introduction. In Purvis M. and Grainger A. (eds.). Exploring Sustainable Development: Geographical Perspectives: 1-32. Earthscan Publications, London.
  • Grainger A., 2004. The role of spatial scale and spatial interactions. In Purvis M. and Grainger A. (eds.). Exploring Sustainable Development: Geographical Perspectives:50-84. Earthscan Publications, London.
  • Grainger A., 2004. Sustainable development and international relations. In Purvis M. and Grainger A. (eds.). Exploring Sustainable Development: Geographical Perspectives: 279-312. Earthscan Publications, London.
  • Li Y., Grainger A., Hesley Z., Hofstad O., Sankhayan P.L., Diallo O. and O'Kting'ati A., 2004. Using GIS techniques to evaluate community sustainability in open forestlands in Sub-Saharan Africa. In Deakin M., Dixon-Gough R. and Mansberger R. (eds.). Methodologies, Models and Instruments for Rural and Urban Land Management: 146-163. Ashgate, Aldershot.
  • Grainger A., 2005. Environmental globalization and tropical forests. Globalizations 2 : 335-348.
  • Grainger A. and Malayang B., 2006. A model of policy changes to secure sustainable forest management and control of deforestation in the Philippines. Forest Policy and Economics 8: 67-80.
  • Grainger A., 2007. The role of end users in an international statistical process: the case of tropical forest statistics. Journal of Official Statistics 23: 553-592.
  • Grainger A. and Konteh W., 2007. Ambiguity, autonomy and symbolism in African politics: the development of forest policy in Sierra Leone. Land Use Policy 24: 42-61.
  • Grainger, A (2008) Difficulties in tracking the long-term global trend in tropical forest area PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 105, 818-823.
  • Grainger, A (2008) Suffering for territory: Race, place, and power in Zimbabwe CURRENT ANTHROPOLOGY, 49 (3) 531-533.
In Press
  • Grainger A., 2009. The role of science in implementing international environmental agreements: the case of desertification. Land Degradation and Development 20 (in press – available online in “Early View”).

Papers (before 2000)

  • Grainger A. and Esbenshade H.W., 1978. The development of tree crops for agroforestry systems. Proceedings Eighth World Forestry Congress, Jakarta, Indonesia, October 1978: 709-718. UN Food and Agriculture Organization, Rome.
  • Grainger A., 1979. New dimensions to forestry. The Forester 31: 41-48.
  • Grainger A., 1980. The state of the world's tropical forests. The Ecologist 10: 6-54.
  • Grainger A., 1980. The greening of India. IUCN Bulletin 11: 103.
  • Grainger A., 1981. Reforesting Britain. The Ecologist 11: 56-81
  • Grainger A., 1981.The shape of Britain's future forests. New Scientist 90: 26-28.
  • Grainger A., 1983. Desertification. Earthscan, London. 96 pp.
  • Grainger A., 1983. Improving the monitoring of deforestation in the humid tropics. In Sutton S.L., Whitmore T.C. and Chadwick A.C. (eds.), 1983.Tropical Rain Forest-Ecology and Management: 387-395. Blackwell's Scientific Publications, Oxford.
  • Grainger A., 1983. Technical and policy aspects for implementing a continuous monitoring system. Proceedings of an International Conference on Renewable Resource Inventories for Monitoring Changes and Trends. Corvallis, Oregon, August 1983: 358-361. Oregon State University, College of Forestry, Corvallis.
  • Grainger A., 1983. Tighter wood supplies predicted by the year 2000.World Wood 24 (1): 12-14.
  • Grainger A., 1983. World Wood Resources and the Problem of Deforestation. Report of the Ditchley Conference, November 1983. Ditchley Foundation, Enstone, Oxon.
  • Wood P.J., Burley J. and Grainger A., 1983. Technologies and Technology Systems for the Reforestation of Degraded Tropical Lands. Report to Office of Technology Assessment, US Congress. Oxford Forestry Institute, Oxford.
  • Grainger A., 1984. Activating policies for increasing the effectiveness of afforestation policies in the tropics involving non-governmental organizations. In Wiersum K.F. (ed.). Proceedings of an International Symposium on Strategies and Designs for Afforestation, Reforestation and Tree Planting. University of Wageningen, Netherlands, September 1983: 375-385. Pudoc, Wageningen.
  • Grainger A., 1984. Quantifying changes in forest cover in the humid tropics: overcoming current limitations. Journal of World Forest Resource Management 1: 3-62.
  • Grainger A., 1985. Forestry enters the computer age. World Wood 26(3): 34-35.
  • Grainger A., 1986. The Future Role of the Tropical Rain Forests in the World Forest Economy. D. Phil dissertation, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford.
  • Grainger A., 1987. A land use simulation model for the humid tropics. Proceedings of International Conference on Land and Resource Evaluation for National Planning in the Tropics, Chetumal, Mexico, January 1987: 431-436. USDA Forest Service, Washington DC.
  • Grainger A., 1987. TROPFORM: A model of future tropical hardwood supplies.Proceedings of the CINTRAFOR Symposium on Forest Sector and Trade Models, Centre for International Trade in Forest Products, University of Washington, Seattle, November 1987: 205-212. Department of Forestry, University of Washington, Seattle.
  • Grainger A., 1987.The future environment for forest management in Latin America.In Colón J.C.F., Wadsworth F.H. and Branham S. (eds.). Management of the Forests of Tropical America. Proceedings of a Conference : 1-9. Institute of Tropical Forestry, USDA Forest Service, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
  • Grainger A., 1987. Tropenbos. Report of the Tiel Consultation October 1986. Ministry of Education and Science, The Netherlands.
  • Grainger A., 1988. Future supplies of high grade tropical hardwoods from tropical plantations. Journal of World Forest Resource Management 3: 15-29
  • Grainger A., 1988. Estimating areas of degraded tropical lands requiring replenishment of forest cover. International Tree Crops Journal 5 (1/2): 31-61.
  • Grainger A., 1988. Tropical rain forests - global resource or national responsibility? In Martin V. (ed.). Proceedings of the Fourth World Wilderness Congress, Estes Park, Colorado, September 1987: 94-99.
  • Grainger A., 1988. Forests. In World Resources 1988-89 : 69-71, 74-78. Published for World Resources Institute/International Institute for Environment and Development/UN Environment Programme by Basic Books, New York.
  • Grainger A., 1990. The Threatening Desert: Controlling Desertification. Earthscan Publications, London. 384 pp.
  • Grainger A., 1990. Modelling deforestation in the humid tropics. In Palo M. and Mery G. (eds.). Deforestation or Development in the Third World? Vol. III : 51-67. Bulletin No. 349, Finnish Forest Research Institute, Helsinki.
  • Grainger A., 1990. Strategies to control deforestation and associated carbon emissions in the humid tropics. In Proceedings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Conference on Tropical Forestry Response Options to Global Climate Change, São Paulo, Brazil, January 1990: 120-133. Report No. 20P-2003, Office of Policy Analysis, US Environmental Protection Agency, Washington DC.
  • Grainger A., 1990. Modelling future carbon emissions from deforestation in the humid tropics. In Proceedings of the IPCC Conference on Tropical Forestry Response Options to Global Climate Change , São Paulo (op cit): 105-119.
  • Grainger A., 1990. Modelling the impact of alternative afforestation strategies to reduce carbon emissions. In Proceedings of the IPCC Conference on Tropical Forestry Response Options to Global Climate Change, São Paulo (op cit): 93-104.
  • Grainger A., 1990.Overcoming institutional constraints on the global monitoring of natural resources. In Proceedings of an International Conference on Global Natural Resource Monitoring and Assessments: Preparing for the 21st Century, Venice, September 1989: 1408-1415. American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Bethesda, Maryland.
  • Grainger A., 1991.Overcoming constraints on assessing feasible afforestation and revegetation rates to combat global climate change. In Sargent C. (ed.). Proceedings of Technical Workshop to Explore Options for Global Forest Management, Bangkok, April 1990: 196-208. Office of the National Environment Board, Government of Thailand/US Environmental Protection Agency.
  • Grainger A., 1992. Characterization and assessment of desertification processes. In Chapman G.P. (ed.). Proceedings of Conference on Grasses of Arid and Semi-Arid Regions, Linnean Society, London, February 1991: 17-33. John Wiley, Chichester.
  • Grainger A., 1992. The role of biophysical indicators in evaluating national progress in sustainable development. Paper presented to a Workshop on Global Environmental Indicators, World Resources Institute, Washington DC, December 1992.
  • Grainger A., 1993. Controlling Tropical Deforestation. Earthscan Publications, London. 208 pp.
  • Iverson L.R., Brown S., Grainger A., Prasad A. and Liu D., 1993. Carbon sequestration in South/Southeast Asia: an assessment of technically suitable forest lands using geographic information systems analysis. Climate Research 3: 23-38.
  • Grainger A., 1993. Rates of deforestation in the humid tropics: estimates and measurements. Geographical Journal 159: 33-44.
  • Grainger A., 1993. Population as concept and parameter in the modelling of tropical land use change. In Ness G., Drake W.D. and Brechin S.R. (eds.). Population-Environment Dynamics: 71-101. University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor.
  • Dale V., Houghton R., Grainger A., Lugo A. and Brown S., 1993. Emissions of greenhouse gases from tropical deforestation and subsequent uses of the land. In Sustainable Agriculture and the Environment in the Humid Tropics: 215-260. US National Research Council, Washington DC.
  • Grainger A., 1994. Review of "United Nations Environment Programme (1992). World Atlas of Desertification." Progress in Physical Geography 18: 621.
  • Grainger A., 1995. National land use morphology: patterns and possibilities. Geography 20: 235-245.
  • Grainger A., 1995. The forest transition: an alternative approach. Area 27: 242-251.
  • Grainger A., Rose S., Trisurat Y. and Brockelman W.Y., 1995. A GIS approach to mapping spatial variation in tropical rain forest biodiversity. In Boyle T.J.B. and Boontawee B. (eds.). Measuring and Monitoring Biodiversity in Tropical and Temperate Forests: 335-353.Centre for International Forestry Research, Bogor.
  • Van Kooten C.G., Grainger A., Ley E., Marland G. and Solberg B., 1995. Conceptual issues related to carbon sequestration: uncertainty and time. In Sampson R.N., Sedjo R.A. and Wisniewski J. (eds.).Economics of Carbon Sequestration and Forestry: 7-20. Forest Policy Centre, American Forests, Washington DC.
  • Grainger A., 1996. An evaluation of FAO's Tropical Forest Resource Assessment 1990. Geographical Journal. 162: 73-79.
  • Brown S., Sathaye J., Cannell M., Kauppi P., Burschel P., Grainger A., Heuveldop J., Leemans R., Moura Costa P., Pinard M., Nilsson S., Schopfhauser W., Sedjo R., Singh N., Trexler M., Van Minnen J. and Weyers S., 1996. Management of forests for mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions. In Watson R.T., Zinyowera M.C. and Moss R.H. (eds.). Climate Change 1995. Impacts, Adaptations and Mitigation of Climate Change: Scientific-Technical Analyses. Contribution of Working Group II to the Second Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: 772-797. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
  • Grainger A., 1996. Integrating the socio-economic and physical dimensions of degraded tropical lands in global climate change mitigation assessments. In Apps M. and Price D.T. (eds.). Forest Ecosystems, Forest Management and the Global Climate Cycle: 335-48. Springer Verlag, Berlin.
  • Grainger A., 1996. Forest environments. In Adams W.M., Goudie A.S., and Orme A.R. (eds.). The Physical Geography of Africa.: 173-195. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
  • Grainger A., 1996. The degradation of tropical rain forest in Southeast Asia: taxonomy and appraisal. In Eden M.E. and Parry J.T. (eds.). Land Degradation in the Tropics: 61-75. Mansell Publishers, London.
  • Grainger A., 1996. Modelling anthropogenic degradation of drylands and the potential to mitigate global climate change. In Squires V. and Glenn A. (eds.). Combating Global Warming by Combating Land Degradation: 193-214. United Nations Environment Programme, Nairobi.
  • Grainger A., 1997. Compensating for opportunity costs in forest-based strategies to mitigate global climate change.Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology 27: S163-176.
  • Grainger A., 1997. Assessing the environmental impacts of national development. In Kirkpatrick C. and Lee N. (eds.). Sustainable Development in a Developing World :61-87. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham.
  • Grainger A. and Bradley D., 1998. A GIS Modelling Approach to Monitoring Rangeland Degradation and Desertification. In Squires V.R. and Sidahmed A.E. (eds.). Drylands. Sustainable Use of Rangelands into the Twenty First Century : 107-124. International Fund for Agricultural Development, Rome.
  • Grainger A., 1998. Modelling tropical land use change and deforestation. In Goldsmith B. (ed). Tropical Rain Forests: a Wider Perspective. 302-344. Chapman and Hall, London.
  • Grainger A., 1999. Constraints on modelling the deforestation and degradation of open woodlands. Global Ecology and Biogeography Letters 8 : 179-190.
  • Grainger A., 1999. The role of spatial scale in sustainable development. International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology 6: 251-264.
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