| 词条 | Ian Simmons |
| 释义 |
| name = Ian G. Simmons | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1937|01|22}} | birth_place = London, England | death_date = | death_place = | nationality = British | residence = | alma_mater = University of London (BSc,PhD.) | fields = biogeography, environmental history, resource management | workplaces = University of Durham University of Bristol }} Ian Gordon Simmons (born 22 January 1937) is a British geographer. He retired as Professor of Geography from the University of Durham in 2001. He has made significant contributions to environmental history and prehistoric archaeology. BackgroundSimmons grew up in East London and then East Lincolnshire until the age of 12. He studied physical geography (BSc) and holds a PhD from the University of London (early 1960s) on the vegetation history of Dartmoor.[1] He began university lecturing in his early 20s and was Lecturer and then Reader in Geography at the University of Durham from 1962 to 1977, then Professor of Geography at the University of Bristol from 1977 to 1981 before returning to a Chair in Geography at Durham, where he worked until retiring in 2001. In 1972–73, he taught biogeography for a year at York University, Canada and has held other appointments including Visiting Scholar, St. Johns College, University of Oxford in the 1990s. Previously, he had been an ACLS postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Berkeley. ScholarshipHis research includes the study of the later Mesolithic and early Neolithic in their environmental setting on English uplands, where he has demonstrated the role of these early human communities in initiating some of Britain's characteristic landscape elements. His work also encompasses the long-term effects of human manipulation of the natural environment and its consequences for resource use and environmental change. This line of work resulted in his last three books, which looked at environmental history on three nested scales: the moorlands of England and Wales, Great Britain, and the Globe. Each dealt with the last 10,000 years and tried to encompassboth conventional science-based data with the insights of the social sciences and humanities. Simmons has authored several books on environmental thought and culture over the ages as well as contemporary resource management and environmental problems. Since retirement he has worked on the landscape history of the area of East Lincolnshire where he was a war-time evacuee and has published some papers on the medieval economy and drainage as well as a wide-ranging website at www.dur.ac.uk/east-lincs-history Honours
Key publications
References1. ^Preface, Simmons IG. 2003. The moorlands of England and Wales: an environmental history 8000 BC to AD 2000. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 2. ^{{cite web|author=Department of Geography |url=http://www.dur.ac.uk/geography/news/allgeognews/ |title=Department of Geography : All News|publisher=Durham University |accessdate=19 August 2012}} External links
13 : 1937 births|Alumni of the University of London|People from London|Living people|Environmental historians|British geographers|Members of Academia Europaea|Fellows of the British Academy|Academics of Durham University|People educated at Upton Court Grammar School|Historical geographers|Biogeographers|Victoria Medal recipients |
| 随便看 |
|
开放百科全书收录14589846条英语、德语、日语等多语种百科知识，基本涵盖了大多数领域的百科知识，是一部内容自由、开放的电子版国际百科全书。