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A T (Dick) Grove, MA

Emeritus Fellow of Downing College

Physical and human geography of Africa, climatic change and desertification. Landscape and environmental change in Mediterranean Europe. Holocene environmental change.

Biography

Career:

  • 1949-1982: Demonstrator, Lecturer, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge
  • 1980-1986: Director, Centre for African Studies
  • 1963-1991: Fellow, Downing College

Research

Environment and Society - Environmental Issues and Policy: Policy and landscape change in southern Europe.

Earth and Environmental Systems: Processes and Change - Environmental Change: Climate change and desertification.

Publications

Selected publications:

  • A.T. Grove and E. Lopez-Gunn (2010) Uncertainty in Climate Change, Real Instituto Elcano working paper, Madrid, Spain.
  • A.T. Grove (2008) A brief consideration of climate forcing factors in view of the Holocene glacier record, Global and Planetary Change 60: 141-7.
  • Edited Jean Grove (2004) Little Ice Ages Ancient and Modern, 2 vols, London, Routledge.
  • Grove, A.T. (2001), 'The "Little Ice Age" and its geomorphological consequences in Mediterranean Europe', Climate Change 48: 121-136
  • Grove, A.T. and Rackham, O. (2001), 'The Nature of Mediterranean Europe', Yale University Press.
  • Nichol, J. E. and Grove, A. T. (2001) 'Thermal satellite images and boundary layer structures in desert marginal areas', Geophysical Research Letters 28: 2943-6.
  • Grove, A. T., Moody, J. and Rackham, O. (2001) 'Gavdhos, Crete', in Green, B. and Vos, W. (eds) Threatened Landscapes: conserving cultural environments, London, Spon Press.
  • Grove, A.T. (2000), 'The African environment, understood and misunderstood', in D. Rimmer and A. Kirk-Greene (eds) The British Intellectual Engagement with Africa in the Twentieth Century, Macmillan, Basingstoke 179-206
  • Grove, A. (1998) 'Variability of African river discharges and lake levels.' in: G.Demaree, J. Alexander and M. de Dapper (eds) Tropical climatology, meteorology and hydrology in Memoriam Franz Bultot (1924-1995). Brussels: Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium and Royal Academy of Overseas Sciences, 470-478.