Bill Adams MA MSc PhD

Moran Professor of Conservation and Development and Fellow of Downing College

Bill Adams works on relations between society and nature, particularly relating to the conservation of wildlife.

Biography

Career:

1984-present: Department of Geography, University of Cambridge.

Qualifications

B.A. in Geography
M.Sc in Conservation, University of London
PhD Geography, University of Cambridge.

Research

Bill Adams is a member of the Political Ecology group, on whose website details of research projects are available.

I am interested in the evolution of ideas in conservation and resource development, and what happens when they are applied. I am currently particularly interested in:

the conservation of nature in landscapes extensively transformed by human action (the Sahel, urban environments);
the political ecology of landscape-scale conservation;
the institutional politics of large-scale ecological restoration
ecosystems services and the conservation imagination

I am not currently able to accept responsibility for any new PhD students.

Publications

Books

Leader-Williams, N, Adams, WM and Smith, RJ (Eds) (2010) Trade-offs in Conservation: deciding what to save. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwells, in press. ISBN 978-1405193832 [flyer]
Hutton J., Dickson, B. and Adams W.M. (2009) (eds) Recreational Hunting, Conservation and Rural Livelihoods, Blackwells, Oxford.
Adams, W.M. (2008) Green Development: environment and sustainability in a developing world, Routledge, London (third edition)
Adams, W.M. (2008) Conservation, Routledge Major Work (4 Vols), Routledge, London
Adams, W.M. and Jeanrenaud, S.J. (2004) Transition to Sustainability: towards a humane and diverse world, IUCN, Gland
Adams, W.M. (2004) Against Extinction: the story of conservation, Earthscan, London
Adams, W.M. (2003) Future Nature: a vision for conservation, Earthscan, London (second edition)
Adams, W.M. and Mulligan, M. (2003) (eds.) Decolonising Nature: strategies for conservation in a postcolonial era, Earthscan, London
Mortimore. M. and Adams, W.M. (1999) Working the Sahel: environment and society in northern Nigeria, Routledge, London.
Adams, W.M., Goudie, A.S. and Orme, A.R. (eds.) (1996) The Physical Geography of Africa, Oxford University Press, Oxford.
Adams, W.M. (1992) Wasting the Rain: rivers, people and planning Africa, Minnesota University Press, Minneapolis and Earthscan, London.
Adams, W.M. (1986) Nature's Place: conservation sites and countryside change, Allen and Unwin, Hemel Hempstead.