Dr Alex Arnall
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+44 (0) 118 378 8369
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Associate Professor
- Co-Head, Department of International Development
- Programme Director of the MSc in Food Security and Development
Areas of interest
- Climate change and human migration/mobility
- Flooding, sea level rise and coastal erosion
- Population displacement and resettlement
- Anthropocene studies and political ecology/geology
Research projects
- Stories we live by: Discipline-Hopping to Address the ‘Imagination Deficit’ in Anthropocene Thinking, 2023 (NERC Discipline Hopping for Discovery Science)
- Everyday Security and Global Environmental Change, 2021-22 (University of Reading Research Fellowship)
- Visualising and Representing Environmental Change in Island Communities, 2020-2021 (ESRC-DFID Joint Fund)
- 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 Joint Fund)
- 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)
Background
I am an environmental 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, Mozambique and the UK.
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).
Professional bodies/affiliations
My research has been funded by the ESRC, DFID, Australian Research Council, Research Council of Norway 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.Publications
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Arnall, A.
ORCID: 0000-0001-6218-5926
(2023)
Encountering the Anthropocene: reconfiguring human-nature relations on the North Norfolk coast, UK.
Geoforum
, 143
ISSN:
0016-7185
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doi:
https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2023.103768
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Kothari, U.
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Arnall, A.
ORCID: 0000-0001-6218-5926
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Azfa, A.
(2023)
Disaster mobilities, temporalities and recovery: experiences of the tsunami in the Maldives.
Disasters
ISSN:
1467-7717
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doi:
https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/disa.12578
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Arnall, A.
ORCID: 0000-0001-6218-5926
(2023)
Climate change and security research: conflict, securitisation and human agency.
PLOS Climate
, 2
(3).
ISSN:
2767-3200
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doi:
https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000072
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Arnall, A.
ORCID: 0000-0001-6218-5926
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Hilson, C.
(2023)
Climate change imaginaries: representing and contesting sea level rise in Fairbourne, North Wales.
Political Geography
, 102
ISSN:
0962-6298
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doi:
https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2023.102839
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Arnall, A.
ORCID: 0000-0001-6218-5926
(2022)
Where land meets sea: islands, erosion and the thing-power of hard coastal protection structures.
Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space
ISSN:
2514-8494
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doi:
https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/25148486221101461
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Pope, H.
ORCID: 0000-0003-2936-7052
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de Frece, A.
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Wells, R.
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Borrelli, R.
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Ajates, R.
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Arnall, A.
ORCID: 0000-0001-6218-5926
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Blake, L.
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Dadios, N.
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Hasnain, S.
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Ingram, J.
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Reed, K.
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Sykes, R.
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Whatford, L.
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White, R.
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Collier, R.
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Häsler, B.
(2021)
Developing a functional food systems literacy for interdisciplinary dynamic learning networks.
Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
, 5
ISSN:
2571-581X
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doi:
https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fsufs.2021.747627
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Arnall, A.
ORCID: 0000-0001-6218-5926
(2021)
Walking with farmers: floods, agriculture and the social practice of everyday mobility.
Global Environmental Change
, 69
ISSN:
0959-3780
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doi:
https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2021.102289
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McMichael, C.
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Kothari, U.
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McNamara, K.
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Arnall, A.
ORCID: 0000-0001-6218-5926
(2021)
Spatial and temporal ways of knowing sea level rise: bringing together multiple perspectives.
WIREs Climate Change
, 12
(3).
ISSN:
1757-7799
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doi:
https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/wcc.703
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Hilson, G.
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Mondlane, S.
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Hilson, A.
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Arnall, A.
ORCID: 0000-0001-6218-5926
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Laing, T.
(2021)
Formalizing artisanal and small-scale mining in Mozambique: concerns, priorities and challenges.
Resources Policy
, 71
ISSN:
0301-4207
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doi:
https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.resourpol.2021.102001
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Arnall, A.
ORCID: 0000-0001-6218-5926
(2021)
Presenting rurality: the Land Settlement Association in interwar England.
Journal of Rural Studies
, 83
pp.
177-186.
ISSN:
0743-0167
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doi:
https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2020.10.019
- Arnall, A. and Kothari, U. (2020) Becoming an island: making connections and places through waste mobilities. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers , 45 (4). pp. 891-905. ISSN: 0020-2754 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/tran.12391
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Ingram, J.
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Raquel, A.
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Arnall, A.
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Blake, L.
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Borelli, R.
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Collier, R.
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de Frece, A.
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Häsler, B.
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Lang, T.
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Pope, H.
ORCID: 0000-0003-2936-7052
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Reed, K.
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Sykes, R.
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Wells, R.
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White, R.
(2020)
A future workforce of food-system analysts.
Nature Food
, 1
(1).
pp.
9-10.
ISSN:
2662-1355
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doi:
https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s43016-019-0003-3
- Kothari, U. and Arnall, A. (2020) Shifting sands: the rhythms and temporalities of island sandscapes. Geoforum , 108 pp. 305-314. ISSN: 0016-7185 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2019.03.006
- Arnall, A. and Kothari, U. (2019) Raising awareness of environmental change in the Maldives. The Impact Initiative for International Development Research
- Geoghegan, H. , Arnall, A. , Feola, G. (2019) Climate and culture: taking stock and moving forward. In: Feola, G. , Geoghegan, H. , Arnall, A. , (eds.) Climate and Culture: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on a Warming World. Cambridge University Press ISBN: 9781108422505
- Feola, G. , Geoghegan, H. , Arnall, A. , eds. (2019) Climate and Culture: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on a Warming World. Cambridge University Press ISBN: 9781108422505
- Arnall, A. , Hilson, C. , 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://dx.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://dx.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://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17565529.2018.1442799
- 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://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2017.11.055
- 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. , 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://dx.doi.org/10.31273/eirj.v4i2.161
- Kelman, I. , Upadhyay, H. , Simonelli, A. , Arnall, A. , Mohan, D. , Lingaraj, G. , Nair, S. , 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://dx.doi.org/10.1080/04353684.2017.1353888
- 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://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0308518X16685884
- Twyman, C. , Smith, T. , 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://dx.doi.org/10.1002/wcc.367
- 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://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2015.08.015
- 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://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2015.01.011
- Arnall, A. , Kothari, U. , 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://dx.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://dx.doi.org/10.1111/geoj.12036
- Arnall, A. , Thomas, D. , Twyman, C. , 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://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0022278X13000037
- Davies, M. , Bene, C. , Arnall, A. , Tanner, T. , Newsham, A. , 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://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7679.2013.00600.x
- Arnall, A. , Thomas, D. , Twyman, C. , Liverman, D. (2013) Flooding, resettlement and change in livelihoods: evidence from rural Mozambique. Disasters , 37 (3). pp. 468-488. ISSN: 0361-3666 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/disa.12003
- Cutter, S. , Osman-Elasha, B. , Campbell, J. , Cheong, S. , McCormick, S. , Pulwarty, R. , Supratid, S. , Ziervogel, G. , Calvo, E. , Mutabazi, K. , Arnall, A. , Arnold, M. , Bayer, J. , Bohle, H. , Emrich, C. , Hallegatte, S. , Koelle, B. , Oettle, N. , Polack, E. , Ranger, N. , Rist, S. (2012) Managing the Risks from Climate Extremes at the Local Level. 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
- Jones, L. , Jaspars, S. , Pavanello, S. , Ludi, E. , Slater, R. , Arnall, A. , Grist, N. , Mtisi, S. (2010) Responding to a changing climate: exploring how disaster risk reduction, social protection and livelihoods approaches promote features of adaptive capacity. Overseas Development Institute (319). , London. pp 27. ISSN: 1759 2909 ISBN: 9781907288258
- Arnall, A. , Oswald, K. , Davies, M. , Mitchell, T. , Coirolo, C. (2010) Adaptive social protection: mapping the evidence and policy context in the agriculture sector in south Asia. Institute of Development Studies (345). , Brighton. pp 92. ISSN: 2040-0209 ISBN: 978185864948X
- 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://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.techsoc.2004.10.005
- Foxon, T. , Gross, R. , Chase, A. , Howes, J. , Arnall, A. , 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://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2004.04.011
- Arnall, A. , Furtado, J. , Ghazoul, J. , 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://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0376835042000265432