Harold Brookfield

Harold Chillingworth Brookfield (born March 9, 1926 in England ) is a British - Australian geographer .

Brookfield is recognized as a specialist in rural development , small-scale societies, family farms and the interactions between land use and social developments in developing countries. With his work, he made a significant contribution to the education of political ecology as a scientific discipline. His last post was until his retirement in 1991 at the Australian National University .

With a regional focus on Southeast Asia and the Pacific region, Brookfields examined the interactions of human-environment relationships.

Life

Harold Brookfield received his PhD degree from the London School of Economics and Political Science , University of London in 1950 with a thesis on "post-eighteenth century urban development in coastal Sussex". In his academic career he taught at Birkbeck College at the University of London (1948–1952), at the University of Natal in Durban , South Africa , at the University of New England in Armidale and finally at the Australian National University (ANU). He was Professor at Pennsylvania State University and McGill University in Canada, as well as Chair of Geography at the University of Melbourne. He worked as a team member on the UNESCO Man and the Biosphere program in Fiji. In 1977 Brookfield was admitted to the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia , and in 2009 to the British Academy . He also received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1973 , the Royal Geographical Society's Back Award in 1975, the IGU Lauréat d'Honneur in 1996 and the Royal Scottish Geographical Society's Centenary Medal in 2006 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Professor Harold Brookfield | British Academy. Retrieved January 18, 2018 . 
2. ↑ Harold Chillingworth Brookfield . In: CAPE-AAG . October 24, 2012 ( wordpress.com [accessed January 18, 2018]).
3. ↑ Harold Brookfield (Australia-International Medal). Retrieved January 18, 2018 . 
4. ↑ Emeritus Professor Harold Brookfield. Retrieved January 22, 2018 . 
5. ^ Coppock Research Medal. Retrieved January 22, 2018 . 

literature

• John Connell, Barbara Rugendyke: Harold Brookfield . In: David Simon (Ed.): Fifty Key Thinkers on Development . Routledge, New York et al. a. 2006, ISBN 978-0-415-33789-2 , pp. 56-60 .