Table of Contents

1. Introduction.- 2. Reminiscences.- 3. A half century of developments in desert geomorphology and the place of A.T. Grove.- 4. From the highlands to the lowlands and back again: Reconstructing past environmental changes in south-central and southern Africa.- 5. Quaternary dune systems in space and time.- 6. The changing human environments of eastern Saudi Arabia.- 7. Migrant birds and the threatened Sahel: Geographies of land use and degradation.- 8. Mediterranean forests, woods and shrublands.- 9. From Saharan palaeoclimates to Al Qaeda and the Islamic State.

About the Author

Max Martin is Research Associate in the School of Global Studies at the University of Sussex, UK.
Vinita Damodaran is Professor of South Asian History at the University of Sussex, UK.  
Rohan D’Souza is Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies at Kyoto University, Japan.