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Ian Douglas is affiliated with the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom. Their academic work spans multiple fields, primarily focusing on Environmental Science, Medicine, and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Within these broad fields, their research engages deeply with several subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Soil Science, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, and Water Science and Technology.

The scientist's research topics include Soil erosion and sediment transport, Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes, COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies, Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, Long-Term Effects of COVID-19, Land Use and Ecosystem Services, and Urban Planning and Landscape Design.

Their body of published research includes studies addressing both environmental and health-related concerns. Some notable recent papers include:

  • Impact of long COVID on health-related quality-of-life: an OpenSAFELY population cohort study using patient-reported outcome measures (OpenPROMPT), 2024, The Lancet Regional Health - Europe
  • The COVID-19 pandemic: local to global implications as perceived by urban ecologists, 2020, Socio-Ecological Practice Research
  • COVID-19 and Mental Illnesses in Vaccinated and Unvaccinated People, 2024, JAMA Psychiatry
  • Clinical coding of long COVID in primary care 2020-2023 in a cohort of 19 million adults: an OpenSAFELY analysis, 2024, EClinicalMedicine
  • Incidence of diabetes after SARS-CoV-2 infection in England and the implications of COVID-19 vaccination: a retrospective cohort study of 16 million people, 2024, The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology

Ian Douglas has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, with multiple joint publications alongside:

  • Philip James (18 coauthored works combined)
  • Ben Goldacre
  • John Tazare
  • Laurie A. Tomlinson

Their research outputs are published in journals that include Socio-Ecological Practice Research, Wellcome Open Research, The Lancet Regional Health - Europe, JAMA Psychiatry, and EClinicalMedicine.

In addition to journal articles, Ian Douglas has contributed to book publications with publishers such as Springer Nature and Frontiers Media. Their books include Water and the Rainforest in Malaysian Borneo (2022) and Urban Ecology and Human Health (2022).

Best Publications

  • Unjust waters: climate change, flooding and the urban poor in Africa

    Ian Douglas;Kurshid Alam;Maryanne Maghenda;Yasmin Mcdonnell

  • Ecosystems and Human Well-Being

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  • Mapping the biomass of Bornean tropical rain forest from remotely sensed data

    Giles M. Foody;Mark E. Cutler;Julia McMorrow;Dieter Pelz

  • Man, vegetation and the sediment yields of rivers

    Ian Douglas

  • Erosion and Sediment Transport in Pacific Rim Steeplands

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  • The impact of selective commercial logging on stream hydrology, chemistry and sediment loads in the Ulu Segama rain forest, Sabah, Malaysia

    Ian Douglas;Tom Spencer;Tony Greer;Kawi Bidin

  • The Human Impact on the Natural Environment

    Ian Douglas;Andrew Goudie

  • Hydrological investigations of forest disturbance and land cover impacts in South-East Asia: a review

    I. Douglas

  • Urban ecology and urban ecosystems: Understanding the links to human health and well-being

    Ian Douglas

  • Global Urban Growth and the Geography of Water Availability, Quality, and Delivery

    Robert I. McDonald;Ian Douglas;Carmen Revenga;Rebecca Hale

  • Climate change, flooding and food security in south Asia

    Ian Douglas

  • Recycling construction and demolition wastes – a UK perspective

    Nigel Lawson;Ian Douglas;Stephen Garvin;Clodagh McGrath

  • The Routledge handbook of urban ecology

    Ian Douglas;P. M. L. Anderson;David Goode;Michael C. Houck

  • Urban pluvial flooding: a qualitative case study of cause, effect and nonstructural mitigation

    Ian Douglas;Stephen Garvin;Nigel Lawson;Juliet Richards

  • Throughfall, stemflow, overland flow and throughflow in the Ulu Segama rain forest, Sabah, Malaysia

    Waidi Sinun;Wong Wai Meng;Ian Douglas;Tom Spencer

  • The role of extreme events in the impacts of selective tropical forestry on erosion during harvesting and recovery phases at Danum Valley, Sabah.

    I. Douglas;K. Bidin;G. Balamurugan;N. A. Chappell

  • Peri-Urban Ecosystems and Societies: Transitional Zones and Contrasting Values

    Ian Douglas

  • Industry, environment and health through 200 years in manchester

    Ian Douglas;Rob Hodgson;Nigel Lawson

  • The challenge of urban poverty for the use of green infrastructure on floodplains and wetlands to reduce flood impacts in intertropical Africa

    Ian Douglas

  • Flooding in African cities, scales of causes, teleconnections, risks, vulnerability and impacts

    Ian Douglas

  • Urban Ecology: An Introduction

    Ian Douglas;Philip James

  • Sources of suspended sediment within a tropical catchment recovering from selective logging

    Nick A. Chappell;Ian Douglas;Jamal Mohd Hanapi;Wlodek Tych

Frequent Co-Authors

Liam Smeeth
Liam Smeeth London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Rory P. D. Walsh
Rory P. D. Walsh Swansea University
Nick A. Chappell
Nick A. Chappell Lancaster University
Tom Spencer
Tom Spencer University of Cambridge
Richard Ashley
Richard Ashley University of Sheffield
Thomas J. Spencer
Thomas J. Spencer Massachusetts General Hospital
William H. Blake
William H. Blake Plymouth University
Giles M. Foody
Giles M. Foody University of Nottingham
Stephen Evans
Stephen Evans University of London
Sarah Lindley
Sarah Lindley University of Manchester

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