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Paul A Shaw is a physical geographer and a Fellow of The Royal Geographical Society He was born in Bath, Somerset, UK in 1947. He was educated at the Duke of York’s Royal Military School in Dover.〔(Duke of York's Royal Military School )〕〔Duke of York's Royal Military School, Wikipedia entry Duke of York's Royal Military School〕 He is Professor of Geography (chair awarded in 2009) at the University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago,〔(Staff pages UWI, St Augustine )〕 having previously worked at various universities in the UK, including the University of Luton (awarded chair in Physical Geography in 1995) and the University of Guyana, University of Botswana (awarded the chair in Geography in 1992) and the University of Malawi outside of the UK. His research deals with desertification, dryland and tropical environments, climate change, geomorphology and Quaternary and historical palaeoenvironmental reconstruction. Shaw is a Fellow of The Royal Geographical Society and is on the editorial board of the ''Journal of Arid Environments''.〔(Journal of Arid Environments )〕 Shaw has authored many scientific papers and two books, one of which - ''The Kalahari Environment'' (written with David S.G. Thomas)- is a major text in the field of desert studies, being cited in many papers and texts written on the subject of the Kalahari and/or desertification.〔(Google Scholar page )〕 == Books == * ''The Kalahari Environment'' David S G Thomas and Paul A Shaw Cambridge University Press, 1991. xiii, 275 p.: ill., maps. ISBN 0-521-37080-9 * ''Geomorphology of Botswana: an Annotated Bibliography'' Paul A Shaw and D.J. Nash 1998 Botswana Society Bibliography of Botswana Part III. The Botswana Society, Gaborone. 43 pp. Book Chapters * Thomas, D.S.G. & Shaw, P.A. 2012. Terminal Basins : Lacustrine and Pan Systems. In: Holmes, P.J. and Meadows, M.E. (eds) ''Southern African Geomorphology: Recent Trends and New Directions''.Chapter 7: pp 167–187. * Shaw, P.A. & Bryant, R.S. 2011. Playas, Pans and Salt Lakes. In: Thomas, D.S.G. (ed) Arid Zone Geomorphology: Process, Form and Change in Drylands. J. Wiley, Chichester. 3rd edition. Chapter 15: pp 373–401. * Shaw, P.A. & Thomas D.S.G. 2005. Late Quaternary environmental change in the Kalahari. In: Smith, M & Hesse P. (eds) 23o South:''The Archaeology and Environmental History of the southern Deserts''. National Museum of Australia Press, Canberra. Chapter 3: 29-44 * Shaw, P.A. 1997. Africa and Europe. In: Thomas, D.S.G. (ed) ''Arid Zone Geomorphology:Process, Form & Change in Drylands''. J. Wiley, Chichester. Chapter 20: 467-486 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「Paul A Shaw」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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