Andrew Goudie (geographer)
Emeritus Professor Andrew Shaw Goudie is a geographer at the University of Oxford specialising in desert geomorphology, dust storms, weathering, and climatic change in the tropics. He is also known for his teaching and best-selling textbooks on human impacts on the environment. He is the author, co-author, editor, or co-editor of forty-one books and more than two hundred papers published in learned journals. He combines research and some teaching with administrative roles.Career
Andrew Goudie was at the School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford from 1970 to 2003. He was appointed Fellow of Hertford College in 1976, was Professor of Geography in 1984 and was Head of the School of Geography from 1984 until 1994. From 1995 until 1997, he was President of the Oxford Development Programme and Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the university. He was Master of St Cross College, Oxford. from 2003 to 2011. He has been an Honorary Secretary and Vice President of the Royal Geographical Society, Executive Secretary and Chairman of the British Geomorphical Research Group, a member of the Council of the Institute of British Geographers, and President of the Geographical Association. He has also been President of the International Association of Geomorphologists.
In 1970, Goudie was elected a Member of the Institute of British Geographers and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. He was Honorary Secretary of the Royal Geographical Society from 1980 until 1988 and has been a Vice-President of the Society. He has been President of the Geographical Association and of the International Association of Geomorphologists and has served as a Delegate to Oxford University Press.Publications
- Andrew S. Goudie, Geomorphology in the Anthropocene
- Andrew S. Goudie, Great Desert Explorers
- Andrew S. Goudie, Wheels Across The Desert: Exploration Of The Libyan Desert By Motorcar 1916-1942
- David E. Anderson, Andrew S. Goudie, and Adrian G. Parker, Global Environments through the Quaternary: Exploring Environmental Change.
- Andrew S. Goudie and N.J. Middleton, Desert Dust in the Global System
- Andrew S. Goudie, The Human Impact On The Natural Environment: Past, Present, And Future
- Andrew S. Goudie, ed., Encyclopedia of Geomorphology.
- Andrew S. Goudie, Editor-in-Chief, and David J. Cuff, Associate Editor, Encyclopedia of Global Change: Environmental Change and Human Society
- Andrew S. Goudie, Great Warm Deserts of the World: Landscapes and Evolution
- Andrew S. Goudie, The Nature Of The Environment
- David S.G. Thomas and Andrew Goudie, eds, The Dictionary Of Physical Geography
- Andrew S. Goudie, Ian Livingstone, and Stephen Stokes, eds, Aeolian Environments, Sediments, and Landforms
- Andrew S. Goudie and Bilin Neyapti, Conflict and Growth in Africa, Vol. 3, Southern Africa
- Denys Brunsden and Andrew S. Goudie, Classic Landforms of the West Dorset Coast
- Andrew S. Goudie, Climate
- Andrew S. Goudie and Heather Viles, The Earth Transformed: An Introduction To Human Impacts On The Environment
- Andrew S. Goudie, ed., The Human Impact Reader: Readings and Case Studies
- Andrew S. Goudie and Heather A. Viles, Salt Weathering Hazards
- W.M. Adams, Andrew S. Goudie and A.R. Orme, eds, The Physical Geography of Africa
- Andrew Goudie and Adrian Parker, The Geomorphology of the Cotswolds
- Andrew S. Goudie, The Changing Earth: Rates of Geomorphological Pprocesses
- Andrew S. Goudie, Deserts in a Warmer World
- Andrew S. Goudie and Denys Brunsden, The Environment of the British Isles: An Atlas
- Andrew S. Goudie et al., eds, Geomorphological Techniques
- Ron Cooke, Andrew Warren, and Andrew S. Goudie, Desert Geomorphology
- Andrew S. Goudie and Rita Gardner, Discovering Landscape in England & Wales
- Andrew S. Goudie, Environmental Change
- Alisdair Rogers, Heather Viles, and Andrew S. Goudie, eds, The Student's Companion to Geography
- Andrew S. Goudie and Andrew Watson, Desert Geomorphology
- Andrew S. Goudie, The Landforms of England and Wales
- Andrew S. Goudie, ed., Techniques for Desert Reclamation
- J.T. Harmse, P.G. Olivier, and Andrew S. Goudie, eds, A Bibliography on Pans and Related Deposits
- Andrew S. Goudie, The search for Timbuktu: A View of Deserts: An Inaugural Lecture Delivered Before the University of Oxford on 25 October 1985
- Andrew S. Goudie, Salt Weathering
- Andrew S. Goudie, ed., Seven Hundred Years of an Oxford College: Hertford College, 1284–1984
- Andrew S. Goudie and D. Price Williams, The Atlas of Swaziland
- Andrew S. Goudie and Kenneth Pye, eds, Chemical Sediments and Geomorphology: Precipitates and Residua in the Near-Surface Environment
- Denys Brunsden and Andrew S. Goudie, Classic Coastal Landforms of Dorset
- Bridget Allchin, Andrew S. Goudie, and Karunarkara Hegde, The Prehistory and Palaeogeography of the Great Indian Desert
- Andrew S. Goudie and John Wilkinson, The Warm Desert Environment
- Andrew S. Goudie, The Concept of Post-glacial Progressive Desiccation
- Andrew S. Goudie, Duricrusts in Tropical and Subtropical Landscapes
Awards
- 2007 Geological Society of America's Farouk El-Baz Award for Desert Research
- 2002 Medal from the Royal Academy of Belgium
- 2002 DSc awarded by the University of Oxford
- 1991 Founders' Medal of the Royal Geographical Society
- 1991 Mungo Park Medal by the Royal Scottish Geographical Society
Education
Goudie was educated at Dean Close School and Trinity Hall, Cambridge. In 2002 he was awarded the degree of Doctor of Science by the University of Oxford.Citations and references
