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Michael Mortimore (born 7 September 1937, Bermuda) is a British geographer and a prolific researcher of issues in the African drylands. He was an academic in Nigerian universities for over 25 years. He runs a British research consultancy, Drylands Research. He is best known for an anti-Malthusian account of population-environment relationships, ''(More People, Less Erosion )'', and field-based studies of adaptation to drought.〔http://www.drylandsresearch.org.uk/〕 ==Background== Born to British parents, Mortimore trained at the University of Leeds (BA Geography 1960, MA 1962). He left the UK in 1962 to become a lecturer in Nigeria. He was involved in building Nigeria's capacity to train and support its own interdisciplinary research into human-environmental dynamics. He first taught and researched at Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, between 1962 and 1979, during which time he trained many students, built a map library, and edited the journal ''Savanna''. He was then Professor of Geography at the relatively new Bayero University, Kano, from 1979 to 1986. He then left Nigeria with his family after religious extremism in Kano. Subsequently he continued research studies as a Senior Research Associate in the Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, the Overseas Development Institute in London, and as an Honorary Fellow of the Centre of West African Studies, University of Birmingham. He is currently a partner of a policy consultancy set up with Mary Tiffen in the 1990s, Dryland Research. He is an Honorary Senior Fellow at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He has been a consultant for DFID, CIFOR, the UNCCD, DANIDA, the Natural Environment Research Council, and the Drylands Development Centre. He is a frequent visitor to Nigeria. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Michael Mortimore」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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