Dr. Andrew Millington

Bio

In 1978 I joined one of Africa's oldest univeristies (Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone) as a lecturer in the Geography Department and while teaching did a D.Phil at the University of Sussex. In 1982. I moved to the University of Reading (England), and then in 1993 I took the Chair in Geography (Full Professor) at the University of Leicester (England)  I was Department Head from 1995-2000 and moved to Texas A&M in 2005. I have consulted for the World Bank, United Nations and European Union, was founding chair of the Biogeography & Biodiversity Commission of the International Geographical Union (1996-2004), and edited The Geographical Journal from 1997 to 2002.

Research

My research interests are in remote sensing, land use dynamics, biogeography and human impacts on the environment. Most of my work lies in the area described as coupled human-natural systems in which I examine the influences of human systems on land use and its impacts on things like vegetation change, landscape fragmentation and biodiversity. I am a remote sensing expert and I use this technique extensively in my research. Recent publications in this area are listed below. I am also working forest responses to hurricanes along the Gulf Coast (Texas (poster of this research) and human appropriation of net primiary productivity in Texas as a measure of environmental sustainability.

Selected Publications

Redo, D.J., Millington, A.C., Hindery, D. submitted. Deforestation Dynamics and Policy Changes in Bolivia's post-    Neoliberal Era. Land Use Policy

Redo, D.J., Bass, J.O., Millington, A.C. 2009. Forest dynamics and the importance of place in western Honduras. Applied Geography, 29, 91-110.

McLaren, S.J., al Juaidi, F, Bateman, M.D., Millington, A.C. 2008. First evidence for episodic flooding evenets in the arid interior of central Saudi Arabia over the last 60Ka. J. Quaternary Science. doi 10.1002/jqs1199

Millington, A.C. and Jepson, W.E. (eds.) 2008. Land Change Science in the Tropics. 273 pp. Springer:New York. Introductory Chapter

Bradley, A.V. and Millington, A.C. 2008. Agricultural Land-Use Trajectories in a Cocaine Source Region: Chapae, Bolivia. in Millington, A.C. and Jepson, W.E. (eds.) Land Change Science in the Tropics, 231-250, Springer:New York.

Bradley, A.V. and Millington, A.C. 2008. Coca and Colonists: Quantifying and Explaining Forest Clearance under Coca and Anti-Narcotics Policy Regimes. Ecology and Society 13(1): 31 [online] URL:http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol14/iss1/art31

Millington, A.C. and Bradley, A.C. 2007. Developing a Thick understanding of Forest Fragmentation in Landscapes of Colonization in the Amazon Basin. in Richard J. Apsinall and Michael J. Hill (eds.) Land Use Change: Science, Policy and Management, 119-137, CRC Press: Boca Raton, FL.

Bradley, A. V. and Millington, A. C. 2006. Spatial and temporal scale issues in determining biomass burning regimes in Bolivia and Peru. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 27(11):2221-53.

Millington, A.C. 2006. Land-Cover Change. Introductory Essay. in H. Geist (ed.) Our Earth's Changing Land: An Encyclopedia of Land-use and Land-Cover Change, xl-xlviii, Greenwood Press: Westport, CT.

Millington, A. C., Velez Liendo, X., and Bradley, A. V. 2003. Scale dependence in multitemporal mapping of forest fragmentation in Bolivia: Implications for explaning temporal trends in landscale ecology and biodiversity conservation. Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 57:289-299.

Links

• Environmental Programs in Geosciences