Ian Douglas

 

Ian Douglas has had over 40 years of research experience relating to changes to the hydrologic and geomorphic systems in tropical rain forests and to the biophysical changes in the urban environment, especially in relation the materials flows, urban hydrology and flooding, and urban geomorphology. He is Treasurer of the Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment (SCOPE) of the International Council for Science (ICSU) (www.icsu-scope.org). He is on the editorial boards of Geographical Research, Land Degradation and Development and Catena.

The impact of mining and urbanisation or earth surface processes (ESPROMUD (SCOPE/IUGS project with international collaboration, part-funded by Leverhulme Trust, British Council and ICSU). [www.icsu-scope.org/projects/cluster2/espromud.htm]

Peri-Urban Environment Change (SCOPE/UNESCO international project, part-funded by ICSU (the international Council for Science) [www.icsu-scope.org/projects/cluster1/pu-ech.htm]

ECOPOLIS (SCOPE project, co-chaired by Rusong Wang (Chinese Academy of Sciences) and Ian Douglas, examining the development of more sustainable, ecologically sound cities) [www.icsu-scope.org/projects/cluster1/ecopolis.htm ]

Sloping Land Improvement Project (SLIP). Bien Phuoc Province, Viet Nam (joint link programme with the Sub-Institute of Geography, Ho Chi Minh City, part-funded by the British Council)

Consultant to the Office of National Statistics, DEFRA, Mekong River Commission, WWF Malaysia, Commonwealth Secretariat, Commonwealth Human Ecology Counci,l the Environment Agency and ActionAid [www.actionaid.org/docs/urban%20flooding%20africa%20report.pdf ]

Long term hydrological change associated with the selective logging of tropical rainforest at Danum Valley, Sabah (funded by the Leverhulme Trust) danum.swansea.ac.uk. [danum.swansea.ac.uk]

Current and past postgraduate students

Samir Chatterjee. Ethnic minorities and environmental action in NW England.

Peter Exon. Soil-forming material from municipal waste.

Andy Surdevan. PAHs as a limitation to recycling of construction and demolition wastes from former gasworks sites.

Monica Palesenau-Lovejoy. Application of GIS to establishe the migration of zones of contamination on former gasworks sites.

Noorazuan Hashim. The impact of urbanisation on rainfall-runoff relationships in the Mersey catchment, UK.

Yaakob bin Mohd. Jani. Sustainable development indicators for Kuala Lumpur.

Recent journal articles

Ian Douglas 2006 The Local Drivers of Land Degradation in South-East Asia. Geographical Research, 44, 123-134.

Zulkifli Yusop, Ian Douglas and Abdul Rahim Nik 2006  Export of dissolved and undissolved nutrients from forested catchments in Peninsular Malaysia. Forest ecology and management, 224, 26-44.

N.Chappell, J.M. Hanapi, I. Douglas and W. Tych 2004 Source of suspended sediment within a catchment recovering from selective logging. Hydrological Processes, 18, 685-701.

Ian Douglas and Nigel Lawson 2004 The human dimensions of geomorphological work in Britain. Journal of Industrial Ecology, 4(2), 3-28.

Ian Douglas and Nigel Lawson 2003 Airport construction: materials use and geomorphic change. Journal of Air Transport Management, 9, 177-85.

Ian Douglas, Rob Hodgson and Nigel Lawson 2002 Industry, environment and health through 200 years in Manchester, Ecological Economics, 41, 235-255.

 

Recent book chapters

Ian Douglas 2007 Reconcentration, and Landscapes of Waste (Chapters 31 and 44) In Douglas, I., Huggett R.J. and Perkins, C. (eds) Companion Encyclopaedia of Geography, Routledge, London, 483-495 and 703-721.

Bauler, T., Douglas , I. , Daniels, P., Demkine, V., Eisenmenger, N., Grosskurth, J., Hak, T., Knippenberg, L., Martin, J., Mederly, P., Prescott-Alan, R., Scholes, R. and van Woerden, J. 2007 Identifying methodological challenges. In Hak, T., Moldan, B. and Dahl, A.L. (eds) Sustainability Indicators: a Scientific Assessment (SCOPE 67) Island Press, Washington , D.C. 49-64.

Ian Douglas, Mira Kobold, Nigel Lawson, Erik Pasche and Iain White (2007) Characterisation of urban streams and urban flooding.  In Richard Ashley, Stephen Garvin, Erik Pasche, Andreas Vassilopoulos and Chris Zevenbergen (eds.)  Advances in Urban Flood Management . Taylor and Francis, Leiden, The Netherlands

Ian Douglas 2006 Peri-urban ecosystems and societies: Transitional zones and contrasting values. In McGregor, D., Simon, D. and Thompson, D. (eds) The Peri-Urban Interface, Earthscan, London, 18-27.

Walsh, R.P.D., Clarke, M., Bidin, K., Blake, W.H., Chappell, N.A., Ramli, N. Sayer, A.M., Sinun, W., Douglas, I., Larenus, J. and Hanapi, J. 2006. Changes in the spatial distribution of erosion within a selectively logged rain-forest catchment in Borneo, 1988-2002. In Soil erosion and sediment redistribution in river catchments: Measurement, modelling and management. Owens, P.N., and Collins, A.J. (eds). Wallingford, CABI Publishing. 239-253.

McGranahan, G., Marcotullio, P., Balk, D., Braga, T., Douglas, I., Balk, D.,Elmqvist, T., Rees, W., Satterthwaite, D., Songsore, D., Zlotnick, H., Eades, J., Ezcurra, E., Whyte, A., Bai, X., Imura, H., and Shirakawa, H. 2005 Urban Systems. In Millennium Ecosystem Assessment: Ecosystems and Human Well-Being, Current State and Trends: Findings of the Condition and Trends Working Group, Island Press, Washington, D.C. 795-825.

Ian Douglas and J.L. Guyot 2005 Erosion and sediment yield in the humid tropics. In Bonell, M. and Bruijnzeel, L.A. (eds) Forests, Water and People in the Humid Tropics. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 407-421.

Ian Douglas and Nigel Lawson 2005 Land use: the geomorphic and land use impacts of mining. In Rajaram, V., Dutta, S. and Parameswaran, K. (eds) Sustainable mining practices – a global perspective. Balkema, Leiden, 60-80.

Ian Douglas 2005 The Mekong River Basin; The urban environment in Southeast Asia; The urban geomorphology of Kuala Lumpur. (Chapters 12, 18 and 20) Gupta, A. (ed.) The Physical Geography of Southeast Asia. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 193-218, 314-335 and 344-357.

Ian Douglas 2005 Hot Wetlands, Urban Geomorphology (Chapters 18 and 27). In Fookes, P.G., Lee E.M. amd Milligan, G. (eds) Geomorphology for Engineers. Whittles Publishing, Dunbeath and CRC Press, Boca Raton FL, 473-500 and 757-779.

Ian Douglas 2004 People Induced Geophysical Risks and Urban Sustainability. In Robert Sparks and Chris Hawkesworth (eds) The State of the Planet: Frontiers and Challenges in Geophysics. (American Geophysical Union Geophysical Monograph 150, IUGG Volume 19), American Geophysical Union, Washington, 387-397.

Academic websites of interest

Royal Society SE Asian Rainforest programme.
Natural Environment Research Council.