About the Authors


Peter Smithson is former Senior Lecturer in the Department of Geography at the University of Sheffield. His research interests include: precipitation climatology (applications in UK, Sri Lanka and Brazil), cave climatology, climate change especially in semi-arid environments. He has over 50 publications, and over 40 refereed research papers in journals.


Ken Addison is Senior Lecturer at the School of Applied Sciences, University of Wolverhampton, and Fellow and Tutor in Physical Geography at St Peter's College, University of Oxford. His research interests include: quaternary stratigraphy and geomorphology, with special interest in Wales, geotechnical and geomorphological studies of recent and contemporary slope stability, earth science conservation strategy and practice and Medieval environmental change.


Ken Atkinson is former Senior Lecturer in the School of Geography at the University of Leeds. He is an Honorary Fellow of the University of York St John. He has had held previous positions at the Universities of Durham, Libya and Saskatchewan (Canada). His research interests include pedology (soil science), biogeography, ecosystems, and resource management. For a number of years he has worked on environmental management in the prairies, arctic lands and Rocky Mountains of Canada. He also has fieldwork experience in the English Pennines, Scottish Mountains, and in the Middle East and Mediterranean (Jordan, Libya and Spain).