Research
Consultancy
Publications
Curriculum Vitae
Sand & Dust Blog
Presentations & Podcasts
Western Sahara Project
Tyndall Centre
Climatic Research Unit
Contact:
Dr Nick Brooks
Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research
School of Environmental Sciences
University of East Anglia
Norwich NR4 7TJ
UK
Tel: +44 (0) 7919 402 918
Email: nick.brooks at uea.ac.uk
Consultancy
Publications
Curriculum Vitae
Sand & Dust Blog
Presentations & Podcasts
Western Sahara Project
Tyndall Centre
Climatic Research Unit
Contact:
Dr Nick Brooks
Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research
School of Environmental Sciences
University of East Anglia
Norwich NR4 7TJ
UK
Tel: +44 (0) 7919 402 918
Email: nick.brooks at uea.ac.uk
2010 / in press
2009
- Brooks, N. 2010. Human responses to climatically-driven landscape change and resource scarcity: Learning from the past and planning for the future. In I. P. Martini and W. Chesworth (eds.) Landscapes and Societies, in press.
2009
- Brooks, N., Brown, K. and Grist, N. 2009. Development Futures in the Context of Climate Change: challenging the present and learning from the past. Development Policy Review 27: 741-765 (download).
- Brooks, N., Clarke, J., Garfi, S. and Pirie, A. 2009. The archaeology of Western Sahara: results of environmental and archaeological reconnaissance. Antiquity 83: 1-17 (request pdf).
- Frankel-Reed, J. Brooks, N., Kurukulasuriya, P. and Lim, B. 2009. A Framework for Evaluating Adaptation to Climate Change. In R. Van Den Berg and O N. Feinstein (eds.) Evaluating Climate Change and Development. Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick, New Jersey, pp. 285-298.
- Heyd, T. and Brooks, N. 2009. Exploring cultural dimensions to climate change. In W.N. Adger, I. Lorenzoni and K. O'Brien (eds.) Adapting to Climate Change: Thresholds, Values and Governance, pp. 269-282. Cambridge University Press (download). Download related presentation (4Mb) and podcast (16Mb)
- Brooks, N. and Grist, N. 2008. Development Futures in the light of climate change: creating new insights into past, present and global futures. Background/discussion paper for DFID/DSA Policy Forum ‘Development in the face of Climate Change: Beyond Mainstreaming?’, 2nd June 2008, University of Greenwich. Available at: http://climateanddevelopment.nri.org/papers.htm (download).
- Risse, N. and
Brooks, N. 2008. Strategic Environmental
Assessment and Adaptation to Climate Change. DAC Network
on Environment and Development
Cooperation.
OECD. Available at: http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/0/43/42025733.pdf (download).
2007
- Contributing author to: Boko, M., I. Niang, A. Nyong, C. Vogel, A. Githeko, M. Medany, B. Osman-Elasha, R. Tabo and P. Yanda, 2007: Africa. Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. Contribution of Working Group II to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, M.L. Parry, O.F. Canziani, J.P. Palutikof, P.J. van der Linden and C.E. Hanson, Eds., Cambridge University Press, Cambridge UK, 433-467 (download; link)
2006
- Brooks, N. 2006. Climate Change, Drought and Pastoralism in the Sahel, Discussion Note for World Initiative on Sustainable Pastoralism, WISP/IUCN (download).
- Brooks, N. 2006. Cultural responses to aridity in the Middle Holocene and increased social complexity. Quaternary International 151, 29-49 (download).
- Brooks, N., Clarke, J., Crisp, J., Crivellaro, F., Jousse, H., Markiewicz, E., Nichol, M., Raffin, M., Robinson, R., Wasse, A. and Winton, V. 2006. Funerary sites in the "Free Zone": Report on the second and third seasons of fieldwork of the Western Sahara Project. Sahara 17, 73-94 (download).
- White, K., Charlton, M., Drake, N., McLaren, S., Mattingly, D. and Brooks, N. 2006. Lakes of the Edeyen Ubari and the Wadi al-Hayat. In Mattingly, D., McLaren, S., Savage, E., al-Fasatwi, Y. and Gadgood, K. The Libyan Desert: Natural Resources and Cultural Heritage, Society for Libyan Studies Monograph number 6. The Society for Libyan Studies, London (download)
2005
- Brooks, N. 2005. Cultural heritage and conflict: The threatened archaeology of Western Sahara. The Journal of North African Studies 304, 413-439 (download).
- Brooks, N., Di Lernia, S., Drake, N. Chiapello, I., Legrand, M., Moulin, C. and Prospero, J. 2005. The environment-society nexus in the Sahara from prehistoric times to the present day. The Journal of North African Studies 304, 253-292 (download)
- Brooks, N., Adger, W. N. and Kelly, M. 2005. The determinants of vulnerability and adaptive capacity at the national level and the implications for adaptation. In Adger, W. N., Arnell, N. and Tompkins, E. L. (Eds.) Adaptation to Climate Change: Perspectives Across Scales. Global Environmental Change Part A 15, 151-162 (download).
- Brooks, N. and Adger, W. N. 2005. Assessing and enhancing adaptive capacity. In B. Lim and E. Spanger-Siegfried (Eds.) Adaptation Policy Frameworks for Climate Change: Developing Strategies, Policies and Measures, pp 165-181. UNDP-GEF. Cambridge University Press (link).
- Jickells, T. D., An Z. S., Andersen, K. K., Baker, A. R., Bergametti, G., Brooks, N., Cao J.J., Boyd, P. W., Duce, R. A., Hunter, K. A., Kawahata, H., Kubilay, N., La Roche, J., Liss, P. S., Mahowald, N., Prospero, J. M., Ridgwell, A. J., Tegen, I. Torres, R. 2005. Global Iron Connections: Desert Dust, Ocean Biogeochemistry and Climate. Science 307, 67-71.
- Mahowald, N. M., A. R. Baker, G. Bergametti, N. Brooks, R. A. Duce, T. D. Jickells, N. Kubilay, J. M. Prospero, and I. Tegen, 2005. Atmospheric global dust cycle and iron inputs to the ocean, Global Biogeochemical Cycles 19, doi:10.1029/2004GB002402.
2004
- Brooks, N. 2004. Drought in the African Sahel: long-term perspectives and future prospects. Tyndall Centre Working Paper No. 61 (download).
- Brooks, N. 2004. Environmental change and land-atmosphere interactions in northern Africa: the role of Saharan dust, In Leroy, S. and Costa, P. (Eds.) Environmental Catastrophes in Mauritania, the Desert and the Coast. Abstract Volume and Field Guide. Mauritania, 4-18 January 2004. First Joint Meeting of ICSU Dark Nature and IGCP 490 (download).
- Brooks, N. 2004. Beyond collapse: the role of climatic desiccation in the emergence of complex societies in the middle Holocene. In Leroy, S. and Costa, P. (Eds.) Environmental Catastrophes in Mauritania, the Desert and the Coast. Abstract Volume and Field Guide. Mauritania, 4-18 January 2004. First Joint Meeting of ICSU Dark Nature and IGCP 490 (download).
- Brooks, N., Di Lernia, S. and Drake, N. 2004. The prehistory of Western Sahara in a regional context. In Leroy, S. and Costa, P. (Eds.) Environmental Catastrophes in Mauritania, the Desert and the Coast. Abstract Volume and Field Guide. Mauritania, 4-18 January 2004. First Joint Meeting of ICSU Dark Nature and IGCP 490 (download).
- Adger W. N ., Brooks, N., Kelly, M., Bentham, S. and Eriksen, S. 2004. New indicators of vulnerability and adaptive capacity, Tyndall Centre Technical Report 7 (download).
2003
- Brooks, N. 2003. Vulnerability, risk and adaptation: A conceptual framework. Tyndall Centre Working Paper No. 38 (download).
- Brooks, N. 2003. Climate change, growth and sustainability: the ideological context. Tyndall Centre Briefing Note No. 8 (download).
- Brooks, N., Drake, N., MacLaren, S. and White, K. H. 2003. Studies in Geography, Geomorphology, Environment and Climate. In D. J. Mattingly (Ed.) The Archaeology of Fazzan: Volume 1, Synthesis, pp 37-74. Department of Antiquities, Tripoli, and Society for Libyan Studies, London.
- White, K., Brooks, N., Drake, N., Charlton, M. and MacLaren, S. 2003. Monitoring vegetation change in desert oases by remote sensing; a case study in the Libyan Fazzan, Libyan Studies 34, 153-166.
2002
- Brooks, N. and Adger, W. N. 2002. Justice and science for sustainable development. Environmental Scientist 11(6): 6-7.
- Adger, N. and Brooks, N. 2002. Does global environmental change cause vulnerability to natural disaster? In M. Pelling (Ed.) Natural Disaster and Development in a Globalising World, pp 19-42. Routledge, London.
- Hulme, M., Jenkins, G., Brooks, N., Cresswell, D., Doherty, R., Durman, C., Gregory, J., Lowe, J. and Osborn, T. 2002. What is happening to global climate and why? In P. Baxter, A. Haines, M. Hulme, R. S. Kovats, R. Maynard, D. J. Rogers, P. (Eds.) Wilkinson Health Effects of Climate Change in the UK . Department of Health, London.
- Adger, N., Brooks, N., Brown, K., Conway, D., Haxeltine, A. and Hulme, M. 2002. Global Climate Change and Sustainable Development: Vulnerability and Adaptation: Memorandum submitted by the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research. (supplementary memorandum). In Global Climate Change and Sustainable Development: Third Report of Session 2001-02, pp Ev 59-62 and pp Ev 67-68. The Stationary Office, London (Ref: HC 519-II).
2001
- Legrand, M., Pancrati, O, Plana-Fattori, A., Brooks, N., Shipman, L., Lavenu, F. and Manga, A. O. 2001. Dust emission and transport over Africa and the Middle East for the period 1983-2000. IRS 2000: Current Problems in Atmospheric Radiation: Proceedings of the International Radiation Symposium, Saint-Petersburg State University, July 24-29. A. Deepak Publishers.
- Mattingly, D. J., Brooks, N., Cole, F., Dore, J., Drake, N., Leone, A., Hay, S., McLaren, S., Newson, P., Parton, H., Pelling, R., Preston, J., Reynolds, T., Scrüfer-Kolb, I., Thomas, D., Tindall, A., Townsend, A. and White, K. 2001. The Fezzan Project 2001: Preliminary report on the fifth season of work. Libyan Studies 32, 133-153.
2000
- Brooks, N. and Legrand, M. 2000. Dust variability over northern Africa and rainfall in the Sahel. In S. McLaren and D. Kniveton (Eds.) Linking Climate Change to Land Surface Change. Dordrecht, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1-25 (download).
- Brooks, N. 2000. Dust-climate interactions in the Sahel-Sahara zone of northern Africa, with particular reference to late twentieth century Sahelian drought . PhD Thesis, Climatic Research Unit, University of East Anglia, Norwich (link).
- Mattingly, D., Mashai, M., Balcombe, P., Barnett, T., Brooks, N., Cole, F., Dore, J., Drake, N., Edwards, E., Hawthorne, J., Helm, R., Leone, A., McLaren, S. J. Pelling, R., Preston, J., Reynolds, T., Townsend, A., Wilson, A. I. and White, K. H. 2000. The Fezzan Project: preliminary report on the fourth season of work. Libyan Studies 31, 103-120.
1998
- Conway, D., Brooks, N., Merrin, P.D. and Briffa, K.R. 1998. Historical climatology and dendroclimatology in the Blue Nile basin, Northern Ethiopia, Proceedings of the Vth NILE 2002 Conference, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
