Paul A. Shaw


Paul A. Shaw is a physical geographer and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.

Biography

Early life

He was born in Bath, Somerset, United Kingdom, in 1947, and was educated at the Duke of York’s Royal Military School in Dover.

Career

He is currently the Professor of Geography at the University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago.
He worked in several universities before this, including the University of Luton and the University of Guyana, the University of Botswana and the University of Malawi outside of the UK.
Shaw is a Fellow of The Royal Geographical Society and is on the editorial board of the Journal of Arid Environments.

Research

Shaw has authored many scientific papers, as well as two books, one of which — The Kalahari Environment — is a major text in the field of desert studies, being cited in many papers and texts written on the subject of the Kalahari Desert, or desertification, or both.
His research deals with desertification, dryland and tropical environments, climate change, geomorphology, Quaternary and historical palaeoenvironmental reconstruction.

Books

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