Michael E. Meadows

Research interests

Publications

• Urban flood risk management needs nature-based solutions: a coupled social-ecological system perspective

  npj Urban Sustainability · 2024 · 10.1038/s42949-024-00162-z

• Vertical accuracy assessment of freely available global DEMs (FABDEM, Copernicus DEM, NASADEM, AW3D30 and SRTM) in flood-prone environments

  International Journal of Digital Earth · 2024 · 10.1080/17538947.2024.2308734

• Ecological restoration for sustainable development in China

  National Science Review · 2023 · https://doi.org/10.1093/nsr/nwad033

• A first Chinese building height estimate at 10 m resolution (CNBH-10 m) using multi-source earth observations and machine learning

  Remote Sensing of Environment · 2023 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2023.113578

• Mapping 21st Century Global Coastal Land Reclamation

  Earth s Future · 2023 · 10.1029/2022ef002927

• Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals in the post-pandemic era

  Humanities and Social Sciences Communications · 2022 · 10.1057/s41599-022-01283-5

• Tracking 21st century climate dynamics of the Third Pole: An analysis of topo-climate impacts on snow cover in the central Himalaya using Google Earth Engine

  International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation · 2021 · 10.1016/j.jag.2021.102490

• An Analysis of Long-Term Rainfall Trends and Variability in the Uttarakhand Himalaya Using Google Earth Engine

  Remote Sensing · 2020 · 10.3390/rs12040709

• Geography Education for Sustainable Development

  Geography and sustainability · 2020 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geosus.2020.02.001

• Changing urban green spaces in Shanghai: trends, drivers and policy implications

  Land Use Policy · 2019 · 10.1016/j.landusepol.2019.104080

• Building beyond land: An overview of coastal land reclamation in 16 global megacities

  Applied Geography · 2017 · 10.1016/j.apgeog.2017.12.015

• Vegetation and climate dynamics during the last glacial period in the fynbos-afrotemperate forest ecotone, southern Cape, South Africa

  Quaternary International · 2015 · 10.1016/j.quaint.2015.08.027

• Influence of tropical easterlies in southern Africa's winter rainfall zone during the Holocene

  Quaternary Science Reviews · 2014 · 10.1016/j.quascirev.2014.10.011

• Holocene climate change in southernmost South Africa: rock hyrax middens record shifts in the southern westerlies

  Quaternary Science Reviews · 2013 · 10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.10.018

• Leaf wax n-alkane distributions in arid zone South African flora: Environmental controls, chemotaxonomy and palaeoecological implications

  Organic Geochemistry · 2013 · 10.1016/j.orggeochem.2013.12.004

• Quantification of climate change for the last 20,000years from Wonderkrater, South Africa: Implications for the long-term dynamics of the Intertropical Convergence Zone

  Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology · 2013 · 10.1016/j.palaeo.2013.06.024

• Rock hyrax middens: A palaeoenvironmental archive for southern African drylands

  Quaternary Science Reviews · 2012 · 10.1016/j.quascirev.2012.08.018

• Evidence for progressive Holocene aridification in southern Africa recorded in Namibian hyrax middens: Implications for African Monsoon dynamics and the ‘‘African Humid Period’’

  Quaternary Research · 2010 · 10.1016/j.yqres.2010.04.006

• Late glacial interhemispheric climate dynamics revealed in South African hyrax middens

  Geology · 2010 · 10.1130/g31129.1

• A record of rapid Holocene climate change preserved in hyrax middens from southwestern Africa

  Geology · 2009 · 10.1130/g30053a.1

• Late Quaternary dynamics of southern Africa's winter rainfall zone

  Earth-Science Reviews · 2007 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2007.06.002

• The nature, extent and causes of land degradation in South Africa: legacy of the past, lessons for the future?

  Area · 2002 · 10.1111/1475-4762.00100

• Desertification in the semi-arid Karoo, South Africa: review and reassessment

  Journal of Arid Environments · 1995 · 10.1016/s0140-1963(05)80001-1

• Special Paper: A Palaeoecological Perspective on the Origin of Afromontane Grasslands

  Journal of Biogeography · 1993 · 10.2307/2845584

• Location Modeling Utilizing Maximum Service Distance Criteria

  Geographical Analysis · 1979 · 10.1111/j.1538-4632.1979.tb00702.x

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