Staff Profile:Dr Alex Arnall

Name:

Dr Alex Arnall

Job Title:

Associate Professor

Responsibilities:

• Research Division Lead: Global Development Research Division
• University of Reading Lead Academic for the Interdisciplinary Food Systems Teaching and Learning (IFTSAL) programme
• Programme Director: MSc in Food Security and Development

Areas of Interest:

• Climate change and human migration/mobility
• Environmental change, displacement and loss
• Planned population resettlement
• Everyday life, social practice and disruption
• Food systems, automation and goods mobility

Key facts:

I am a social and development geographer, specialising in the study of migration, movement and displacement of people and things. My work is characterised by an environment theme, including climate change, agricultural development and food systems. Much of my empirical research has taken place in the Maldives and Mozambique.

I have a DPhil in Geography from the University of Oxford on development processes in flood-affected resettlement communities. Prior to joining the University of Reading, I worked as a Consultant for the international firm Environmental Resources Management (ERM) and then as a Research Officer at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS).

My research has been funded by the ESRC, DFID, Australian Research Council, Norwegian Research Council and British Academy. I have carried out consultancy for a number of development agencies, including GIZ, Save the Children, Oxfam and WWF. I supervise PhD students funded by the ESRC, Commonwealth Scholarship Commission and Leverhulme Trust.

Research projects:

• Sea-Level Rise and Everyday Lives in Small Island States, 2019-2022 (Australian Research Council)
• Environmental Change and Everyday Lives in Island Communities, 2017-2019 (ESRC-DFID Development Frontiers fund)
• Presenting Rurality: The Land Settlement Association in Inter-War England, 2018 (Land Settlement Research Bursary, Museum of English Rural Life)
• Marginal or Marginalised? Investigating Discourses of International Land Acquisition in Southern Mozambique, 2015-16 (British Academy)
• Perceptions and Understandings of Climate Change and Migration: Conceptualising and Contextualising for Lakshadweep and Maldives, 2012-15 (The Research Council of Norway)
• Involuntary Resettlement and Livelihoods Restoration in Flood-Affected Communities in Mozambique, 2011-13 (British Academy)

Research groups / Centres:

Publications:

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Jump to: 2019 | 2017 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2010 | 2005 | 2004

Number of items: 26.

2019

• Arnall, A. and Kothari, U., (2019) Raising awareness of environmental change in the Maldives. Project Report. The Impact Initiative for International Development Research
• Ingram, J., Raquel, A., Arnall, A., Blake, L., Borelli, R., Collier, R., de Frece, A., Häsler, B., Lang, T., Pope, H., Reed, K., Sykes, R., Wells, R. and White, R. (2019) Preparing our future workforce of ‘food system analysts'. Nature Food. ISSN 2662-1355 (In Press)
• Kothari, U. and Arnall, A. (2019) Shifting sands: the rhythms and temporalities of island sandscapes. Geoforum. ISSN 0016-7185 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2019.03.006 (In Press)
• Arnall, A. (2019) “Employment until the end of the world”: exploring the role of manipulation in a Mozambican land deal. Land Use Policy, 81. pp. 862-870. ISSN 0264-8377 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2017.11.055
• Feola, G., Geoghegan, H. and Arnall, A., eds. (2019) Climate and culture: multidisciplinary perspectives on a warming world. Cambridge University Press. (In Press)
• Geoghegan, H., Arnall, A. and Feola, G. (2019) Climate and culture: taking stock and moving forward. In: Climate and Culture: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on a Warming World. Cambridge University Press. (In Press)
• Arnall, A., Hilson, C. and McKinnon, C. (2019) Climate displacement and resettlement: the importance of claims-making ‘from below’. Climate Policy, 19 (6). pp. 665-671. ISSN 1469-3062 doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/14693062.2019.1570065
• Kothari, U. and Arnall, A. (2019) Everyday life and environmental change. The Geographical Journal, 185 (2). pp. 130-141. ISSN 1475-4959 doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/geoj.12296
• Arnall, A. (2019) Resettlement as climate change adaptation: what can be learned from state-led relocation in rural Africa and Asia? Climate and Development, 11 (3). pp. 253-263. ISSN 1756-5537 doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/17565529.2018.1442799

2017

• Kothari, U. and Arnall, A. (2017) Contestation over an island imaginary landscape: the management and maintenance of touristic nature. Environment and Planning A, 49 (5). pp. 980-998. ISSN 0308-518X doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518X16685884
• Kelman, I., Upadhyay, H., Simonelli, A. C., Arnall, A., Mohan, D., Lingaraj, G. J., Nair, S. and Webersik, C. (2017) Here and now: perceptions of Indian Ocean islanders on the climate change and migration nexus. Geografiska Annaler: Series B Human Geography, 99 (3). pp. 284-303. ISSN 1468-0467 doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/04353684.2017.1353888
• Reed, K., Collier, R., White, R., Wells, R., Ingram, J., Borelli, R., Heasler, B., Caraher, M., Lang, T., Arnall, A., Gonzalez, R., Pope, H., Blake, L. and Sykes, R. (2017) Training future actors in the food system: a new collaborative cross-institutional, interdisciplinary training programme for students. Exchanges : The Interdisciplinary Research Journal, 4 (2). pp. 201-218. ISSN 2053-9665 doi: https://doi.org/10.31273/eirj.v4i2.161

2015

• Arnall, A. (2015) Resilience as transformative capacity: exploring the quadripartite cycle of structuration in a Mozambican resettlement programme. Geoforum, 66. pp. 26-36. ISSN 0016-7185 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2015.08.015
• Twyman, C., Smith, T. and Arnall, A. (2015) What is Carbon? Conceptualising carbon and capabilities in the context of community sequestration projects in the global South. WIREs Climate Change, 6 (6). pp. 627-641. ISSN 1757-7799 doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.367
• Arnall, A. and Kothari, U. (2015) Challenging climate change and migration discourse: different understandings of time-scale and temporality in the Maldives. Global Environmental Change, 31. pp. 199-206. ISSN 0959-3780 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2015.01.011

2014

• Arnall, A., Kothari, U. and Kelman, I. (2014) Introduction to politics of climate change: discourses of policy and practice in developing countries. The Geographical Journal, 180 (2). pp. 98-101. ISSN 1475-4959 doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/geoj.12054
• Arnall, A. (2014) A climate of control: flooding, displacement and planned resettlement in the Lower Zambezi River valley, Mozambique. The Geographical Journal, 180 (2). pp. 141-150. ISSN 1475-4959 doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/geoj.12036

2013

• Arnall, A., Thomas, D. S.G., Twyman, C. and Liverman, D. (2013) Flooding, resettlement and change in livelihoods: evidence from rural Mozambique. Disasters, 37 (3). pp. 468-488. ISSN 0361-3666 doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/disa.12003
• Davies, M., Bene, C., Arnall, A., Tanner, T., Newsham, A. and Coirolo, C. (2013) Promoting resilient livelihoods through adaptive social protection: lessons from 124 programmes in South Asia. Development Policy Review, 31 (1). pp. 27-58. ISSN 0950-6764 doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7679.2013.00600.x
• Arnall, A., Thomas, D. S. G., Twyman, C. and Liverman, D. (2013) NGOs, elite capture and community-driven development: perspectives in rural Mozambique. Journal of Modern African Studies, 51 (2). pp. 305-330. ISSN 1469-7777 doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022278X13000037

2012

• Cutter, S., Osman-Elasha, B., Campbell, J., Cheong, S. M., McCormick, S., Pulwarty, R., Supratid, S., Ziervogel, G., Calvo, E., Mutabazi, K., Arnall, A., Arnold, M., Bayer, J. L., Bohle, H. G., Emrich, C., Hallegatte, S., Koelle, B., Oettle, N., Polack, E., Ranger, N. and Rist, S. (2012) Managing the Risks from Climate Extremes at the Local Level. In: Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 291-338. ISBN 978-1-107-60780-4

2010

• Arnall, A., Oswald, K., Davies, M., Mitchell, T. and Coirolo, C., (2010) Adaptive social protection: mapping the evidence and policy context in the agriculture sector in south Asia. Working Paper. 345. Project Report. Institute of Development Studies, Brighton. pp92. ISBN 978185864948X ISSN 2040-0209
• Jones, L., Jaspars, S., Pavanello, S., Ludi, E., Slater, R., Arnall, A., Grist, N. and Mtisi, S., (2010) Responding to a changing climate: exploring how disaster risk reduction, social protection and livelihoods approaches promote features of adaptive capacity. Working Paper. 319. Project Report. Overseas Development Institute, London. pp27. ISBN 9781907288258 ISSN 1759 2909

2005

• Arnall, A. and Parr, D. (2005) Moving the nanoscience and technology (NST) debate forwards: short-term impacts, long-term uncertainty and the social constitution. Technology in Society, 27 (1). pp. 23-38. ISSN 0160-791X doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techsoc.2004.10.005
• Foxon, T.J., Gross, R., Chase, A., Howes, J., Arnall, A. and Anderson, D. (2005) UK innovation systems for new and renewable energy technologies: drivers, barriers and systems failures. Energy Policy, 33 (16). pp. 2123-2137. ISSN 0301-4215 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2004.04.011

2004

• Arnall, A., Furtado, J., Ghazoul, J. and de Swardt, C. (2004) Perceptions of informal safety nets: a case study from a South African informal settlement. Development Southern Africa, 21 (3). pp. 443-460. ISSN 1470-3637 doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/0376835042000265432

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Qualifications:

BSc (University of East Anglia); MSc (Imperial College); DPhil, (University of Oxford)