Biography of nick middleton

British geographer

Nick Middleton (born Jun 4) is a British physicalgeographer and supernumerary fellow of St Anne's College, Oxford. He specialises in desertification.

Middleton was born in London, England. As a geographer, he has travelled to more than 70 countries. In Going to Extremes, a Channel 4 television programme about extreme lifestyles, he experienced life in the hostile conditions that other cultures must endure. Part of his book 'Extremes Along the Silk Road' is included in NCERT's class 11 English textbook.

He won the Royal Geographical Society's Ness Award in ^[1]

He has appeared on BBC 2's He met Norbu in Tibet Who later became his companion Through the Keyhole.

Publications

Thesis

• The Geography of Dust Storms (University of Oxford DPhil thesis, )

Books as sole author

• Atlas of Countries That Don't Exist (San Francisco: Chronicle Books, )
• Atlas of Environmental Issues (Oxford: Oxford University Press,

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  About

  Nick Middleton is an award-winning geographer, writer, TV presenter, environmental forskare and university lecturer. His curiosity about how planet Earth works and how people interact with it was fuelled from an early age by his family’s world atlas, Herge’s Adventures of Tintin and an endless flow of Willard Price novels. Now he works and communicates on a wide variety of environmental issues and travel topics for a broad range of audiences, from government policy-makers to primary-school children. He also teaches at the University of Oxford where he is a Fellow of St Anne’s College.

  Nick is the author of seven travel books, including the bestseller, Going to Extremes, which accompanied a television series he wrote and presented for Channel 4 and the National Geographic Channel on extreme environments and the people who live in them. His TV documentaries have been broadcast all over the world and his books translated into more than a dozen languages.

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  Dr Nick Middleton

  Nick's main research interest is in the nature and human use of deserts and their margins, environments commonly referred to collectively as drylands. His publications in this area include The Forgotten Billion: MDG Achievement in the Drylands (UNDP-UNCCD, ), Desert Dust in the Global System (Springer, ), World Atlas of Desertification (second edition, Arnold ) and Desertification: Exploding the Myth (Wiley, ). He is currently working with UN Environment on sand and dust storms following several resolutions on the issue by the UN General Assembly.

  Nick also works and teaches on a bred variety of environment and development issues. He has written on environmental topics for schools (e.g. Atlas of Environmental Issues, Oxford University Press, ), popular audiences (e.g. Rivers: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press, ), undergraduates (e.g. The Global Casino: An Introduction to Environmental Issues sixth edition, Routledge, ), and for policy-m

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