Andrew Goudie

Andrew Shaw Goudie is Master of St Cross College, Oxford.

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 has also known for his teaching and bestselling textbooks on human impacts on the environment. He is the author, co-author, editor, or co-editor of thirty-nine books (many of which have appeared in numerous editions) and around two hundred papers published in learned journals. He combines research and some teaching with administrative roles, most recently as Master of St Cross College.

Andrew Goudie was born at Cheltenham on 21 August 1945. He was educated at Dean Close School and Trinity Hall, Cambridge (BA first class with distinction 1967, MA, PhD 1972). In 2002 he was awarded the degree of Doctor of Science by the University of Oxford.

He has been working at the University of Oxford since 1970. In 1976 he was appointed Fellow of Hertford College. He was appointed 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 became Master of St Cross College, in 2003.

In 1970 he was elected a Member of the Institute of British Geographers (of which he was later a member of Council) 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. In 1991 the Society awarded him its Founders' Medal. In the same year he was awarded the Mungo Park Medal by the Royal Scottish Geographical Society. In 2002 he was honoured by The Royal Academies for Science and the Arts of Belgium. He has been President of the Geographical Association and of the International Association of Geomorphologists. He has served as a Delegate to Oxford University Press.

Books

*David E. Anderson, Andrew S. Goudie, and Adrian G. Parker, "Global environments through the Quaternary: exploring environmental change" (4th edn, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007)
*Andrew S. Goudie and N.J. Middleton, "Desert dust in the global system" (Heidelberg: Springer, 2006)
*Andrew S. Goudie, "The human impact on the natural environment: past, present, and future" (Oxford: Blackwell, 1981; 2nd edn 1986; 3rd edn 1990; 4th edn 1993; 5th edn 2000; 6th edn 2006)
*Andrew S. Goudie, ed., "Encyclopedia of geomorphology" (London: Routledge, 2004)
*Andrew S. Goudie, editor-in-chief, and David J. Cuff, associate editor, "Encyclopedia of global change: environmental change and human society" (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002)
*Andrew S. Goudie, "Great warm deserts of the world: landscapes and evolution" (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002)
*Andrew S. Goudie, "The nature of the environment" (Oxford: Blackwell, 1984; 2nd edn 1989; 3rd edn 1993; 4th edn 2001)
*David S.G. Thomas and Andrew Goudie, eds, "The dictionary of physical geography" (Oxford: Blackwell, 1985; 2nd edn 1994; 3rd edn 2000)
*Andrew S. Goudie, Ian Livingstone, and Stephen Stokes, eds, "Aeolian environments, sediments, and landforms" (Chichester: Wiley, 1999)
*Andrew S. Goudie and Bilin Neyapti, "Conflict and growth in Africa", vol. 3, "Southern Africa" (Paris: Development Centre of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 1999)
*Denys Brunsden and Andrew S. Goudie, "Classic landforms of the West Dorset coast" (Sheffield: Geographical Association, 1997; new edn 1997)
*Andrew S. Goudie, "Climate" (London: Phoenix, 1997)
*Andrew S. Goudie and Heather Viles, "The earth transformed: an introduction to human impacts on the environment" (Oxford: Blackwell, 1997)
*Andrew S. Goudie, ed., "The human impact reader: readings and case studies" (Oxford: Blackwell, 1997)
*Andrew S. Goudie and Heather A. Viles, "Salt weathering hazards" (Chichester: Wiley, 1997)
*W.M. Adams, Andrew S. Goudie and A.R. Orme, eds, "The physical geography of Africa" (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996)
*Andrew Goudie and Adrian Parker, "The geomorphology of the Cotswolds" (Oxford: Cotteswold Naturalists' Field Club, 1996)
*Andrew S. Goudie, "The changing earth: rates of geomorphological processes" (Oxford: Blackwell, 1995)
*Andrew S. Goudie, "Deserts in a warmer world" (Chichester: Wiley, 1994)
*Andrew S. Goudie and Denys Brunsden, "The environment of the British Isles: an atlas" (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994)
*Andrew S. Goudie "et al"., eds, "Geomorphological techniques" (London: Unwin Hyman, 1990; 2nd edn, London: Routledge, 1994)
*Ron Cooke, Andrew Warren, and Andrew S. Goudie, "Desert geomorphology" (London: UCL Press, 1993)
*Andrew S. Goudie and Rita Gardner, "Discovering landscape in England & Wales" (London: Allen & Unwin, 1985; 2nd edn, London: Chapman & Hall, 1992)
*Andrew S. Goudie, "Environmental change" (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1977; 2nd edn 1983; 3rd edn 1992)
*Alisdair Rogers, Heather Viles, and Andrew S. Goudie, eds, "The student's companion to geography" (Oxford: Blackwell, 1992)
*Andrew S. Goudie and Andrew Watson, "Desert geomorphology" (Basingstoke: Macmillan Education, 1980; 2nd edn 1990)
*Andrew S. Goudie, "The landforms of England and Wales" (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1990)
*Andrew S. Goudie, ed., "Techniques for desert reclamation" (Chichester: Wiley, 1990)
*J.T. Harmse, P.G. Olivier, and Andrew S. Goudie, eds, "A bibliography on pans and related deposits" (Johannesburg: University Press, Rand Afrikaans University, 1990)
*Andrew S. Goudie, "The search for Timbuktu: a view of deserts: an inaugural lecture delivered before the University of Oxford on 25 October 1985" (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986)
*Andrew S. Goudie, "Salt weathering" (Oxford: University of Oxford School of Geography, 1985)
*Andrew S. Goudie, ed., "Seven hundred years of an Oxford college: Hertford College, 1284-1984" (Oxford: Hertford College, 1984)
*Andrew S. Goudie and D. Price Williams, "The atlas of Swaziland" (Lobamba: Swaziland National Trust Commission, 1983)
*Andrew S. Goudie and Kenneth Pye, eds, "Chemical sediments and geomorphology: precipitates and residua in the near-surface environment" (London: Academic Press, 1983)
*Denys Brunsden and Andrew S. Goudie, "Classic coastal landforms of Dorset" (Sheffield: Geographical Association, 1981)
*Bridget Allchin, Andrew S. Goudie, and Karunarkara Hegde, "The prehistory and palaeogeography of the Great Indian Desert" (London; New York: Academic Press, 1978)
*Andrew S. Goudie and John Wilkinson, "The warm desert environment" (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1977)
*Andrew S. Goudie, "The concept of post-glacial progressive desiccation" (Oxford: School of Geography, University of Oxford, 1972)
*Andrew S. Goudie, "Duricrusts in tropical and subtropical landscapes" (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1973)

ources and further information

* [http://www.oxfordinspires.org/documents/professorandrewgoudiebiography.doc Oxford Inspires]
* [http://www.geog.ox.ac.uk/staff/agoudie.php School of Geography (inlcudes more extensive list of publications)]
* [http://www.stx.ox.ac.uk/general/fellows/goudie_andrew St Cross College, Oxford]
*"Debrett's People of Today" (12th edn, London, 1999), p. 767