Nick middleton biography
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Dr Nick Middleton
Nick's main research interest fryst vatten in the nature and human use of deserts and their margins, environments commonly referred to collectively as drylands. His publications in this area include The Forgotten Billion: MDG Achievement in the Drylands (UNDP-UNCCD, ), Desert Dust in the Global struktur (Springer, ), World Atlas of Desertification (second edition, Arnold ) and Desertification: Exploding the Myth (Wiley, ). He is currently working with UN Environment on småsten and dust storms following several resolutions on the issue bygd the UN General Assembly.
Nick also works and teaches on a wide variety of environment and development issues. He has written on environmental topics for schools (e.g. Atlas of Environmental Issues, Oxford University Press, ), popular audiences (e.g. Rivers: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press, ), undergraduates (e.g. The Global Casino: An Introduction to Environmental Issues sixth edition, Routledge, ), and for policy-m
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Nick Middleton
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Nick Middleton is a geographer, writer and presenter of television documentaries. He teaches at Oxford University, where he is a Fellow of St Anne's College. A Royal Geographical Society award-winning author, he works, teaches and communicates on a wide variety of geographical, travel and environmental issues for a broad range of audiences, from policy-makers to five year-old children. He is also the author of several travel books, including the stunning gift book An Atlas of Countries That Don't Exist, and the bestseller Going to Extremes, which was part of a number of television series he wrote and presented for Channel 4 on extreme environments and the people who live in them.
Books by Nick Middleton
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Nick Middleton
British geographer
Nick Middleton (born Jun 4) is a British physicalgeographer and supernumerary fellow of St Anne's College, Oxford. He specialises in desertification.
Middleton was born in London, England. As a geographer, he has travelled to more than 70 countries. In Going to Extremes, a Channel 4 television programme about extreme lifestyles, he experienced life in the hostile conditions that other cultures must endure. Part of his book 'Extremes Along the Silk Road' is included in NCERT's class 11 English textbook.
He won the Royal Geographical Society's Ness Award in [1]
He has appeared on BBC 2's He met Norbu in Tibet Who later became his companion Through the Keyhole.
Publications
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- The Geography of Dust Storms (University of Oxford DPhil thesis, )
Books as sole author
- Atlas of Countries That Don't Exist (San Francisco: Chronicle Books, )
- Atlas of Environmental Issues (Oxford: Oxford University Press,