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Harold Chillingworth Brookfield (born 1926 in England) is a British and Australian geographer specialising in the analysis of rural development, small-scale societies, family farming, and the relationship between land use and society in developing countries. He retired from the Australian National University in 1991. ==Background== Harold Brookfield grew up in North London, England and attended Minchenden Grammar School from 1937–1943. Apparently remaining in London through the war, he took a BSc degree in geography, graduating in 1945 from the London School of Economics and Political Science, University of London at age 19 or 20. His PhD followed in 1950, a study of post-eighteenth century urban development in coastal Sussex. However interests soon shifted to rural issues in developing nations. His academic positions were: * Assistant lecturer in Geography at Birkbeck College at the University of London, from 1948–1952. * Lecturer and head, Department of Geography at the University of Natal in Durban, South Africa, 1952–1955. * University of New England Australia 1955–1957. * Fellow, Australian National University (ANU), 1957–1969 * Professor at Pennsylvania State University 1969–1971 (he resigned.〔"The one that finally did tempt me to accept included a proposal that I play a leading role in a new African studies center at Pennsylvania State, but on arrival I quickly found this was at that time nothing but a front, and that it seemed to be assumed I would become a cultural ecologist of the United States. My actual teaching role seemed to me to resemble that of an assembly-line operative in a huge education factory. All this was discouraging, but the worst part of the experience was that Pennsylvania State University was located deep in 'middle America', and I had gone there in 1969 at the height of the Nixon period in American history. I quickly developed contacts in Canada, and on the day Nixon invaded Cambodia in 1970 I happily resigned my tenured post to go to what was initially a very temporary position at McGill." Brookfield, H.C. 2004: American Geography and one non-American geographer. ''Geojournal'' 59, 39–41.〕) * Professor at McGill University in Canada 1971–1976, including a Guggenheim Fellowship. * Chair of Geography at the University of Melbourne 1976–1982, including extensive periods working for the UNESCO Man and the Biosphere Programme. * Professor, Australian National University 1982–1991. * Emeritus professor, ANU 1991–. Also project Director and researcher with (PLEC ) until the early 2000s. He was also an Honorary Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex in the 1970s, and led the UNESCO Man and the Biosphere Programme in Fiji. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Harold Brookfield」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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