Andy Dougill

Centre member

Andy is based at the University of Leeds, where he is Head of the School of Earth and Environment|, and Professor of Environmental Sustainability.

He has extensive research expertise from a range of agro-ecosystems in the development of integrated methods for land degradation assessment.

His current work is extending such approaches by developing vulnerability assessments based on studies at a range of scales, and incorporating environmental resilience, institutional analysis and social network studies.

Andy leads the 'Closing the Loop' work package within the Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy (CCCEP) that assesses local understanding of climate models and vulnerability assessments. He is leading field research assessments of sub-Saharan farming systems using a range of innovative participatory techniques.

Background

Andy has a BSc in Geography and a PhD in Environmental Change from the University of Sheffield.

He has authored over 30 peer-reviewed articles on environmental change and land degradation assessment approaches. He has developed integrated participatory methodologies for stakeholder-led land degradation assessments in a range of agro-ecological zones across the globe, including semi-arid savannas, dryland mixed farming systems, mountain farming systems and temperate upland ecosystems. He has provided inputs to national, regional and international reviews of land degradation assessment methods for a wide range of academic and institutional reports.

Research interests

• Soil degradation;
• Agricultural development;
• Participatory and envronmental monitoring.

Research articles

2012

Stringer, L.C., Dougill, A.J., et al. Challenges and opportunities in linking carbon sequestration, livelihoods and ecosystem service provision in drylands. 

• Published article: May-June 2012. Environmental Science and Policy, v.19-20, pp.121-135. External link to full article
• Unpublished article: January 2012. Working paper, Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy, Leeds and London, UK. Download PDF of paper (2MB) 

Simelton, E., Fraser, E.D.G., Challinor, A.J., Dougill, A.J., Forster, P.M, et al. Online first - forthcoming. The socioeconomics of food crop production and climate change vulnerability: a global scale quantitative analysis of how grain crops are sensitive to drought. Food Security. External link to full details|

Dyer, J.C., Stringer, L.C., Dougill, A.J. April 2012. Jatropha curcas: sowing local seeds of success in Malawi? In response to Achten et al (2010). Journal of Arid Environments, v.79, pp.107-110. External link to full article|

Antwi-Agyei, P., Fraser, E., Dougill, A., Stringer, L., and Simelton, E. March 2012. Mapping the vulnerability of crop production to drought in Ghana using rainfall, yield and socioeconomic data. Applied Geography, v.32, pp.324–334. External link to full article|

Favretto, N., Stringer, L.C., and Dougill, A.J. February 2012. Cultivating clean energy in Mali: policy analysis and livelihood impacts of Jatropha curcas. Working paper, Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy, Leeds and London, UK. Download PDF of paper| (1.39MB)

2011

Thomas, A.D.T., Hoon, S.R., Dougill, A.J. November 2011. Soil respiration at five sites along the Kalahari Transect: effects of temperature, precipitation pulses and biological soil crust cover. Geoderma, v.167-168, pp.284-294. External link to full article|

Twyman, C., Fraser, E.D.G., Stringer, L.C., Quinn, C., Dougill, A.J., Ravera, F., Crane, T.A., and Sallu, S.M. 2011. Climate science, development practice, and policy interactions in dryland agroecological systems. Ecology and Society, v.16. External link to full article|

Simelton, E., Quinn, C.H., Antwi-Agyei, P., Batisani, N., Dougill, A.J., Dyer, J., Fraser, E.D.G., Mkwambisi, D., Rosell, S., Sallu, S., and Stringer, L.C. African farmers' perceptions of erratic rainfall. Working paper, Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy, Leeds and London, UK. Download PDF of article| (1.69MB)

Fraser, E., Dougill, A., Hubacek, K., Quinn, C., Sendzimir, J., and Termansen, M. 2011. Assessing vulnerability to climate change in dryland livelihood systems: conceptual challenges and interdisciplinary solutions. Ecology and Society, v.16. External link to full article| 

Antwi-Agyei, P., Fraser, E.D.G., Dougill, A.J., Stringer, L.C., and Simelton, E. March 2011. Mapping the vulnerability of crop production to drought in Ghana using rainfall, yield and socioeconomic data. Working paper, Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy, Leeds and London, UK. Download PDF of paper| (1.16MB)

Mkwambisi, D.B., Fraser, E.D.G., and Dougill, A.J. 2011. Urban agriculture and poverty reduction: evaluating how food production in cities contributes to food security, employment and income in Malawi. Journal of International Development, v.23, pp.181-203. External link to full article|

2010

Dougill, A.J., Fraser, E.D.G., and Reed, M.S. September 2010. Anticipating vulnerability to climate change in dryland pastoral systems: using dynamic systems models for the Kalahari. Working paper, Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy (CCCEP), London, UK. Download PDF of paper| (522KB)

Simelton, E., Fraser, E.D.G., Termansen, M., Benton, T.G., Gosling, S.N., South, A., Arnell, N.W., Challinor, A.J., Dougill, A.J., and Forster, P.M. August 2010. Climate change and the socioeconomics of global food production: a quantitative analysis of how socioeconomic factors influence the vulnerability of grain crops to drought. Working paper, Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy (CCCEP), London, UK. Download PDF of paper| (468KB)

Fraser, E.D.G., Termansen, M., Hubacek, K., Dougill, A.J., Sendzimir, J., and Quinn, C. June 2010. Assessing vulnerability to climate change in dryland livelihood systems: conceptual challenges and interdisciplinary solutions. Working paper, Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy (CCCEP), London, UK. Download PDF of paper| (267KB)

Goddard, M.A., Benton, T.G., and Dougill, A. April 2010. Beyond the garden fence: landscape ecology of cities. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, v.25, pp.202-203. External link to full article|

Goddard, M.A, Dougill, A., and Benton, T.G. February 2010. Scaling up from gardens: biodiversity conservation in urban environments. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, v.25, pp.90-98. External link to full article|

Mkwambisi, D.D., Fraser, E.D.G., and Dougill, A. February 2010. Urban agriculture and poverty reduction: evaluating how food production in cities contributes to food security, employment and income in Malawi. Journal of International Development. External link to full article|

Reed, M.S., and Dougill, A. January 2010. Linking degradation assessment to sustainable land management: a decision support system for Kalahari pastoralists. Journal of Arid Environments, v.74. External link to full article|

Stringer, L., Mkwambisi, D., Dougill, A., and Dyer, J.C. 2010. Household and policy adaptations to climate change and desertification: perspectives from Malawi. Climate and Development, v.2, pp.145-160. External link to full article| 

2009

Stringer, L.C., Dyer, J.C., Reed, M.S., Dougill, A.J., Twyman, C., and Mkwambisi, D. November 2009. Adaptations to climate change, drought and desertification: insights to enhance policy in southern Africa. Environmental Science and Policy, v.12. External link to full article|

Simelton, E., Fraser, E.D.G., Termansen, M., Forster, P.M., and Dougill, A. June 2009. Typologies of crop-drought vulnerability: an empirical analysis of the socio-economic factors that influence the sensitivity and resilience to drought of three major food crops in China (1961-2001). Environmental Science & Policy, v.12. External link to full article|

2008

Reed, M.S., and Dougill, A. Participatory land degradation assessment. The Future of Drylands [Cathy Lee and Thomas Schaaf (eds.)], January 2008. UNESCO and Springer SBM, Paris and The Netherlands. External link to full article|