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  • 2019 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Michael E. Meadows is a researcher affiliated with the University of Cape Town in South Africa. Their work primarily focuses on Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a significant number of publications in these fields.

Their research spans several subfields including Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Earth-Surface Processes, and Environmental Engineering. This range reflects a diverse approach to understanding environmental and planetary systems.

Main topics covered in their work include:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
  • Geological formations and processes
  • Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
  • Urban Heat Island Mitigation
  • Climate variability and models

Michael E. Meadows has contributed to several frequent publication venues, such as:

  • Geography and sustainability
  • Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Remote Sensing
  • Science Bulletin
  • Marine Geology

Among recent papers authored or co-authored, notable examples include:

  • Geography Education for Sustainable Development, 2020, Geography and sustainability
  • Ecological restoration for sustainable development in China, 2023, National Science Review
  • A first Chinese building height estimate at 10 m resolution (CNBH-10 m) using multi-source earth observations and machine learning, 2023, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals in the post-pandemic era, 2022, Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
  • An Analysis of Long-Term Rainfall Trends and Variability in the Uttarakhand Himalaya Using Google Earth Engine, 2020, Remote Sensing

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Michael E. Meadows include Bojie Fu, Dhritiraj Sengupta, Abhishek Banerjee, Ruishan Chen, and Zhanghua Wang, indicating ongoing collaborative relationships within environmental and earth sciences research.

In addition to journal articles, Michael E. Meadows has published a book titled Research Directions, Challenges and Achievements of Modern Geography (2023) through Springer Nature.

The researcher was recognized as a Member of Academia Europaea in 2019, a distinction reflecting their standing in the scientific community.

Best Publications

  • Late Quaternary dynamics of southern Africa's winter rainfall zone

    Brian M. Chase;Brian M. Chase;Michael E. Meadows

  • Geography Education for Sustainable Development

    Michael E. Meadows;Michael E. Meadows;Michael E. Meadows

  • Leaf wax n-alkane distributions in arid zone South African flora: Environmental controls, chemotaxonomy and palaeoecological implications

    Andrew S. Carr;Arnoud Boom;Hannah L. Grimes;Brian M. Chase;Brian M. Chase

  • Building beyond land: An overview of coastal land reclamation in 16 global megacities

    Dhritiraj Sengupta;Ruishan Chen;Michael E. Meadows;Michael E. Meadows

  • Desertification in the semi-arid Karoo, South Africa: review and reassessment

    W.R.J. Dean;M.T. Hoffinan;M.E. Meadows;S.J. Milton

  • A record of rapid Holocene climate change preserved in hyrax middens from southwestern Africa

    B.M. Chase;B.M. Chase;M.E. Meadows;L. Scott;D.S.G. Thomas

  • Changing urban green spaces in Shanghai: trends, drivers and policy implications.

    Zhen Wu;Ruishan Chen;Michael E. Meadows;Michael E. Meadows;Dhritiraj Sengupta

  • The nature, extent and causes of land degradation in South Africa: legacy of the past, lessons for the future?

    M. E. Meadows;M. T. Hoffman

  • Evidence for progressive Holocene aridification in southern Africa recorded in Namibian hyrax middens: Implications for African Monsoon dynamics and the ``African Humid Period''

    Brian M. Chase;Brian M. Chase;Michael E. Meadows;Andrew S. Carr;Paula J. Reimer

  • Rock hyrax middens: A palaeoenvironmental archive for southern African drylands

    Brian M. Chase;Brian M. Chase;Louis Scott;Michael E. Meadows;Graciela Gil-Romera

  • Quantification of climate change for the last 20,000 years from Wonderkrater, South Africa: Implications for the long-term dynamics of the Intertropical Convergence Zone

    Loïc Truc;Manuel Chevalier;Charly Favier;Rachid Cheddadi

  • An Analysis of Long-Term Rainfall Trends and Variability in the Uttarakhand Himalaya Using Google Earth Engine

    Abhishek Banerjee;Ruishan Chen;Michael E. Meadows;R. B. Singh

  • Land degradation and climate change in South Africa

    Michael E Meadows;Timm M Hoffman

  • Late Quaternary Palaeoenvironments of the southwestern Cape, South Africa: a regional synthesis

    Michael E. Meadows;Andrew J. Baxter

  • Influence of tropical easterlies in southern Africa's winter rainfall zone during the Holocene

    Brian M. Chase;Brian M. Chase;Sophak Lim;Manuel Chevalier;Arnoud Boom

  • Precipitation variability in the winter rainfall zone of South Africa during the last 1400 yr linked to the austral westerlies

    J. C. Stager;J. C. Stager;P. A. Mayewski;J. White;B. M. Chase;B. M. Chase

  • Late glacial interhemispheric climate dynamics revealed in South African hyrax middens

    Brian M. Chase;Brian M. Chase;Lynne J. Quick;Michael E. Meadows;Louis Scott

  • Soil erosion in the Swartland, Western Cape Province, South Africa: implications of past and present policy and practice

    Michael E. Meadows

  • Holocene climate change in southernmost South Africa: rock hyrax middens record shifts in the southern westerlies

    Brian M. Chase;Brian M. Chase;Arnoud Boom;Andrew S. Carr;Michael E. Meadows

  • Vegetation and climate dynamics during the last glacial period in the fynbos-afrotemperate forest ecotone, southern Cape, South Africa

    Lynne J. Quick;Michael E. Meadows;Mark D. Bateman;Kelly L. Kirsten

  • The Unified Theory of Biodiversity and Biogeography BY STEPHEN P. HUBBELL xiv + 375 pp., 21.5 × 14 × 2.2 cm, ISBN 0 691 02128 7 paperback, US$ 29.95/GB£ 19.95, Princeton, NJ, USA/Woodstock, UK: Princeton University Press, 2001

    Michael E. Meadows

Frequent Co-Authors

Brian M. Chase
Brian M. Chase University of Montpellier
Matthias Zabel
Matthias Zabel University of Bremen
Torsten Haberzettl
Torsten Haberzettl Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Andrew S. Carr
Andrew S. Carr University of Leicester
Paula J. Reimer
Paula J. Reimer Queen's University Belfast
Arnoud Boom
Arnoud Boom University of Leicester
Enno Schefuß
Enno Schefuß University of Bremen
Louis Scott
Louis Scott University of the Free State
Lydie M Dupont
Lydie M Dupont University of Bremen

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