List of works - David Thomas

A Holocene–late Pleistocene aeolian record from lunette dunes of the western Free State panfield, South Africa

article

A multi-proxy analysis of the Holocene humid phase from the United Arab Emirates and its implications for southeast Arabia's Neolithic populations

scholarly article

Allostratigraphy and Quaternary dune sediments: Not all bounding surfaces are the same

Challenges of calculating dunefield mobility over the 21st century

article

Climate change adaptation: Linking indigenous knowledge with western science for effective adaptation

scholarly article by Cuthbert Casey Makondo & David S G Thomas published October 2018 in Environmental Science and Policy

Climatic and sea level controls on Late Quaternary eolian activity on the Agulhas Plain, South Africa

article

Controls on sand ramp formation in southern Namibia

scholarly article

Drought dynamics on the Mongolian steppe, 1970-2006

article

Dunefield activity response to climate variability in the southwest Kalahari

article

Effective livelihood adaptation to climate change disturbance: Scale dimensions of practice in Mozambique

scholarly article by Henny Osbahr et al published November 2008 in Geoforum

Equity and justice in climate change adaptation amongst natural-resource-dependent societies

scholarly article by David S G Thomas & Chasca Twyman published July 2005 in Global Environmental Change

Examining the potential of high sampling resolution OSL dating of Chinese loess

article

Experts address the question: "Are poverty and land degradation inevitable in desert-prone areas?"

Explaining spatial variations in climate hazard impacts in western Mongolia

article published in 2014

Extending the aridity record of the Southwest Kalahari: current problems and future perspectives

scientific article

Flooding, resettlement, and change in livelihoods: evidence from rural Mozambique

scientific article published on 2 April 2013

From global politics to local land users: applying the United Nations Convention to combat desertification in Swaziland

scholarly article by Lindsay Stringer et al published June 2007 in The Geographical Journal

From landform to process: Morphology and formation of lake-bed barchan dunes, Makgadikgadi, Botswana

article

Geomorphological contributions to palaeolimnology on the African continent

Grove AT (1969) Landforms and climate change in the Kalahari and Ngamiland. Geographical Journal 135: 191—212

scholarly article by David S G Thomas published 23 August 2010 in Progress in Physical Geography

Holocene development of multiple dune generations in the northeast Rub’ al-Khali, United Arab Emirates

article

Holocene fluctuations of Lake Ngami, Middle Kalahari: chronology and responses to climatic change

article

Holocene fluvial valley fill sources of atmospheric mineral dust in the Skeleton Coast, Namibia

scientific article published in 2017

Identifying chronostratigraphic breaks in aeolian sediment profiles using near-surface luminescence dating and changepoint analysis

Interactions between arid and humid records of Quaternary change in drylands

scholarly article

Interpreting and modelling late Quaternary dune accumulation in the southern Arabian Peninsula

scholarly article

Interpreting geoproxies of late Quaternary climate change in African drylands: Implications for understanding environmental change and early human behaviour

scholarly article by David S G Thomas & Sallie L. Burrough published March 2012 in Quaternary International

Is there evidence for global-scale forcing of Southern Hemisphere Quaternary desert dune accumulation? A quantitative method for testing hypotheses of dune system development

article

Knowing, farming and climate change adaptation in North-Central Namibia

scholarly article by Andrew J. Newsham & David S G Thomas published May 2011 in Global Environmental Change

Late Cainozoic drainage evolution in the Zambezi basin: Geomorphological evidence from the Kalahari rim

article

Late Pleistocene wetting and drying in the NW Kalahari: an integrated study from the Tsodilo Hills, Botswana

scholarly article by David S G Thomas et al published January 2003 in Quaternary International

Late Quaternary environmental change in central southern Africa: new data, synthesis, issues and prospects

scholarly article

Late Quaternary highstands at Lake Chilwa, Malawi: Frequency, timing and possible forcing mechanisms in the last 44ka

scholarly article

Late Quaternary humidity and aridity dynamics in the northeast Rub' al-Khali, United Arab Emirates: Implications for early human dispersal and occupation of eastern Arabia

article

Late Quaternary hydrological dynamics in the Middle Kalahari: Forcing and feedbacks

article

Late Quaternary palaeoenvironments of the winter-rainfall zone of southern Africa: Palynological and sedimentological evidence from the Agulhas Plain

article

Luminescence-based dune chronologies in southern Africa: Analysis and interpretation of dune database records across the subcontinent

article

Mega-Lake in the Kalahari: A Late Pleistocene record of the Palaeolake Makgadikgadi system

article

Migration and global environmental change

article

Migration, environmental change, and the ‘challenges of governance’

scholarly article by Andrew Geddes et al published 2012 in Environment and Planning C: Urban Analytics and City Science

Migration, immobility and displacement outcomes following extreme events

Monitoring environmental change and degradation in the irrigated oases of the Northern Sahara

Multiphase Quaternary highstands at Lake Ngami, Kalahari, northern Botswana

article

Multiphase late Quaternary aeolian sediment accumulation in western South Africa: Timing and relationship to palaeoclimatic changes inferred from the marine record

article

NGOs, elite capture and community-driven development: perspectives in rural Mozambique

article

Optical dating of abrupt shifts in the late Pleistocene East Asian monsoon

article

Outcomes of Social and Environmental Change in the Kalahari of Botswana: The Role of Migration

scholarly article by Deborah Sporton et al published September 1999 in Journal of Southern African Studies

Pressurised pastoralism in South Gobi, Mongolia: what is the role of drought?

Punctuated aridity in southern Africa during the last glacial cycle: The chronology of linear dune construction in the northeastern Kalahari

article

Rates of dust deposition between 50 ka and 20 ka revealed by OSL dating at Yuanbao on the Chinese Loess Plateau

article

Remobilization of southern African desert dune systems by twenty-first century global warming

scientific article

Reproducibility and utility of dune luminescence chronologies

Sand ramps as palaeoenvironmental archives: Integrating general principles and regional contexts through reanalysis of the Klipkraal Sands, South Africa

Science and the desertification debate

Sedimentation and diagenesis of Chinese loess: Implications for the preservation of continuous, high-resolution climate records

article

Siliceous duricrusts as palaeoclimatic indicators: evidence from the Kalahari desert of Botswana

article

Spatial and temporal complexity in Quaternary desert datasets: implications for interpreting past dryland dynamics and understanding potential future changes

scholarly article

The Namib Sand Sea digital database of aeolian dunes and key forcing variables

article

The Zambezi River: tectonism, climatic change and drainage evolution — is there really evidence for a catastrophic flood? A discussion

article

The dynamism of salt crust patterns on playas

article

The effect of environmental change on human migration

article by Richard Black et al published December 2011 in Global Environmental Change

The environmental impact of groundwater exploitation in African grasslands: Examples and a case study from the Kalahari region

The implications for governance of migration linked to environmental change: key findings and new research directions

scholarly article by Andrew Geddes et al published 2012 in Environment and Planning C: Urban Analytics and City Science

The nature of publishing and assessment in Geography and Environmental Studies: evidence from the Research Assessment Exercise 2008

article

The utility of desert sand dunes as Quaternary chronostratigraphic archives: evidence from the northeast Rub' al Khali

article

Tracking desertification on the Mongolian steppe through NDVI and field-survey data

‘Where is the life in farming?’: The viability of smallholder farming on the margins of the Kalahari, Southern Africa

article

List of works by David Thomas

A Holocene–late Pleistocene aeolian record from lunette dunes of the western Free State panfield, South Africa

A multi-proxy analysis of the Holocene humid phase from the United Arab Emirates and its implications for southeast Arabia's Neolithic populations

Allostratigraphy and Quaternary dune sediments: Not all bounding surfaces are the same

Challenges of calculating dunefield mobility over the 21st century

Climate change adaptation: Linking indigenous knowledge with western science for effective adaptation

Climatic and sea level controls on Late Quaternary eolian activity on the Agulhas Plain, South Africa

Controls on sand ramp formation in southern Namibia

Drought dynamics on the Mongolian steppe, 1970-2006

Dunefield activity response to climate variability in the southwest Kalahari

Effective livelihood adaptation to climate change disturbance: Scale dimensions of practice in Mozambique

Equity and justice in climate change adaptation amongst natural-resource-dependent societies

Examining the potential of high sampling resolution OSL dating of Chinese loess

Experts address the question: "Are poverty and land degradation inevitable in desert-prone areas?"

Explaining spatial variations in climate hazard impacts in western Mongolia

Extending the aridity record of the Southwest Kalahari: current problems and future perspectives

Flooding, resettlement, and change in livelihoods: evidence from rural Mozambique

From global politics to local land users: applying the United Nations Convention to combat desertification in Swaziland

From landform to process: Morphology and formation of lake-bed barchan dunes, Makgadikgadi, Botswana

Geomorphological contributions to palaeolimnology on the African continent

Grove AT (1969) Landforms and climate change in the Kalahari and Ngamiland. Geographical Journal 135: 191—212

Holocene development of multiple dune generations in the northeast Rub’ al-Khali, United Arab Emirates

Holocene fluctuations of Lake Ngami, Middle Kalahari: chronology and responses to climatic change

Holocene fluvial valley fill sources of atmospheric mineral dust in the Skeleton Coast, Namibia

Identifying chronostratigraphic breaks in aeolian sediment profiles using near-surface luminescence dating and changepoint analysis

Interactions between arid and humid records of Quaternary change in drylands

Interpreting and modelling late Quaternary dune accumulation in the southern Arabian Peninsula

Interpreting geoproxies of late Quaternary climate change in African drylands: Implications for understanding environmental change and early human behaviour

Is there evidence for global-scale forcing of Southern Hemisphere Quaternary desert dune accumulation? A quantitative method for testing hypotheses of dune system development

Knowing, farming and climate change adaptation in North-Central Namibia

Late Cainozoic drainage evolution in the Zambezi basin: Geomorphological evidence from the Kalahari rim

Late Pleistocene wetting and drying in the NW Kalahari: an integrated study from the Tsodilo Hills, Botswana

Late Quaternary environmental change in central southern Africa: new data, synthesis, issues and prospects

Late Quaternary highstands at Lake Chilwa, Malawi: Frequency, timing and possible forcing mechanisms in the last 44ka

Late Quaternary humidity and aridity dynamics in the northeast Rub' al-Khali, United Arab Emirates: Implications for early human dispersal and occupation of eastern Arabia

Late Quaternary hydrological dynamics in the Middle Kalahari: Forcing and feedbacks

Late Quaternary palaeoenvironments of the winter-rainfall zone of southern Africa: Palynological and sedimentological evidence from the Agulhas Plain

Luminescence-based dune chronologies in southern Africa: Analysis and interpretation of dune database records across the subcontinent

Mega-Lake in the Kalahari: A Late Pleistocene record of the Palaeolake Makgadikgadi system

Migration and global environmental change

Migration, environmental change, and the ‘challenges of governance’

Migration, immobility and displacement outcomes following extreme events

Monitoring environmental change and degradation in the irrigated oases of the Northern Sahara

Multiphase Quaternary highstands at Lake Ngami, Kalahari, northern Botswana

Multiphase late Quaternary aeolian sediment accumulation in western South Africa: Timing and relationship to palaeoclimatic changes inferred from the marine record

NGOs, elite capture and community-driven development: perspectives in rural Mozambique

Optical dating of abrupt shifts in the late Pleistocene East Asian monsoon

Outcomes of Social and Environmental Change in the Kalahari of Botswana: The Role of Migration

Pressurised pastoralism in South Gobi, Mongolia: what is the role of drought?

Punctuated aridity in southern Africa during the last glacial cycle: The chronology of linear dune construction in the northeastern Kalahari

Rates of dust deposition between 50 ka and 20 ka revealed by OSL dating at Yuanbao on the Chinese Loess Plateau

Remobilization of southern African desert dune systems by twenty-first century global warming

Reproducibility and utility of dune luminescence chronologies

Sand ramps as palaeoenvironmental archives: Integrating general principles and regional contexts through reanalysis of the Klipkraal Sands, South Africa

Science and the desertification debate

Sedimentation and diagenesis of Chinese loess: Implications for the preservation of continuous, high-resolution climate records

Siliceous duricrusts as palaeoclimatic indicators: evidence from the Kalahari desert of Botswana

Spatial and temporal complexity in Quaternary desert datasets: implications for interpreting past dryland dynamics and understanding potential future changes

The Namib Sand Sea digital database of aeolian dunes and key forcing variables

The Zambezi River: tectonism, climatic change and drainage evolution — is there really evidence for a catastrophic flood? A discussion

The dynamism of salt crust patterns on playas

The effect of environmental change on human migration

The environmental impact of groundwater exploitation in African grasslands: Examples and a case study from the Kalahari region

The implications for governance of migration linked to environmental change: key findings and new research directions

The nature of publishing and assessment in Geography and Environmental Studies: evidence from the Research Assessment Exercise 2008

The utility of desert sand dunes as Quaternary chronostratigraphic archives: evidence from the northeast Rub' al Khali

Tracking desertification on the Mongolian steppe through NDVI and field-survey data

‘Where is the life in farming?’: The viability of smallholder farming on the margins of the Kalahari, Southern Africa