School of Geography - Faculty of Environment

RESEARCH OVERVIEW

Creating models for sustainable land management of desertification prone areas: understanding the physical processes underlying land degradation and working with other social and physical scientists to create integrated models to guide local conservation measures and regional policy development.

There are a number of distinct themes in my work, though with strong overlaps between them. All are concerned with the understanding and modelling of landscape processes and its impact on landscape form. Models are generally seen as a thought experiments which are intended to demonstrate the consistency of general understanding, rather than as specific forecasting tools.

CURRENT PROJECTS

EC DESURVEY project 2005-2010: (PI Juan Puigdefabregas, CSIC, EEZA, Almeria) DeSurvey is a project funded by the European Commission under the Framework Programme 6 and contributing to the implementation of the actions 'Mechanisms of desertification' and 'Assessment of the vulnerability to desertification and early warning options' within the 'Global Change & Ecosystems priority'.

RESEARCH AFFILIATIONS

• River Basin Processes and Management

PUBLICATIONS

• Dunn SM (Dunn, S. M.), Freer J (Freer, J.), Weiler M (Weiler, M.), Kirkby MJ (Kirkby, M. J.), Seibert J (Seibert, J.), Quinn PF (Quinn, P. F.), Lischeid G (Lischeid, G.), Tetzlaff D (Tetzlaff, D.), Soulsby C (Soulsby, C.) (2008) Conceptualization in catchment modelling: simply learning? HYDROLOGICAL PROCESSES, 22(13) 2389-2393

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