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failure of the recent landscape to measure up to the imaginary past as idealized by artists, poets and scientists of the early modern
Enlightenment. Grove and Rackham tried to track the evolution of climate, vegetation and landscape in southern Europe from prehistoric times till present and point out that climate has usually been unstable and plant cover accommodated to various extremes and became resilient with regard to various patterns of human activity. The authors assume that people had already transformed most parts of Mediterranean Europe 4,000 years ago and the “humanization of the landscape” overlapped with the appearance of the present Mediterranean climate, insofar as humanization was not the cause of climate change. To the contrary, the wide ecological diversity typical of Mediterranean Europe was man made. The greatest human induced changes came since World War II as rural populations throughout the region abandoned traditional subsistence economies and left the traditional agricultural patterns towards setting sceneries for travelers, which resulted in more monotonous, large-scale formations. As real threats to Mediterranean landscapes they see the overdevelopment of coastal areas, abandonment of mountains and the already mentioned loss of traditional agricultural occupations.
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for subsequent geomorphological investigations of long term environmental change in arid environments in Africa. He systematically mapped and identified features, first in the Sahel belt, and later in the
Kalahari. Through his role as a doctoral supervisor at Cambridge, supervising doctoral students who went on to become influential researchers and teachers in their own right (notably Andrew Goudie, later Chair of Geography at Oxford and Master of St Cross College, Andrew Warren, later Professor of Geography at University College London, Nick Lancaster, Research Professor at the University of Nevada’s Desert Research Institute and Mike Meadows, Professor of Geography at the University of Cape Town), Grove created an important legacy in modern dryland science both in African environments and in dryland geomorphology more broadly.
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inherent uncertainty, the evidence that human activity is causing global warming is substantial, and that it is therefore 'safer to act, to mitigate and adapt with the aim of slowing down change'. In his work about
Mediterranean Europe he doubts the common wisdom of a 'Lost Eden,' a formerly fertile region, that had been progressively degraded and desertified by human mismanagement. The simplistic,
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Mediterranean Paradise on Earth in antiquity, which was destroyed by destructive later civilizations dates however back to at least the eighteenth century and was fashionable in archaeological and historical circles for centuries. However the authors argue that this belief stems from the
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Grove made major contributions in the study of dryland geomorphology in the deserts of northern and southern Africa, by combining detailed mapping of geomorphological features through air photograph analysis with meticulous field verification. His work in the 1950s and 60s established the framework
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While Grove supported increasing evidence of human activity was causing global warming, he saw definite and conclusive evidence in the field of climate change as almost an impossibility. Nevertheless, his consideration of the problem in his 2010 paper leads him to the conclusion that despite this
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From 1949 to 1982, Grove was a lecturer at the
Department of Geography, University of Cambridge and from 1980-1986 Director of the Centre for African Studies. 1963-1991 he was appointed fellow of the Downing College. He has written a number of books, including "Africa South of the Sahara", and
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Microcosm of the East India Company. In Vinita Damodaran, Anna Winterbottom, and Alan Lester, eds. The East India Company and the Natural World, Palgrave Studies in World Environmental History, pp.
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A T (Dick) Grove interviewed by Paul
Merchant. Grove, Alfred Thomas (Dick), 1924-2023 (speaker, male; interviewee), 2010-02-26, 2010-03-12, 2010-04-16, 2010-05-05, 2010-06-11, 2010-07-06, 2010-10-20. Recording
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African environment'. In D. Rimmer and A. Kirk-Greene, eds, The British Intellectual Engagement with Africa in the Twentieth Century, Macmillan, Basingstoke, pp. 179–206
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in Europe. So together (with Jean Grove) 'Little Ice Ages Ancient and Modern', 2004 and The "Little Ice Age" and its geomorphological consequences in Mediterranean Europe' and together with
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