Andy Dougill has developed and applied new and innovative, community-empowering, methods of environmental assessment and monitoring across dryland Africa for the last 20 years. His research transcends and integrates approaches from a range of disciplines across the natural and social sciences aimed at providing more locally-relevant nuanced understandings of environmental change affecting rural communities. The outputs of his work include a wide range of academic publications, but more importantly local management guides and policy advice capable of supporting and strengthening community-based natural resource management. He is now working to bring together local-scale, livelihoods and environmental studies, with regional, national and global scale assessments of vulnerability to climate change and dryland degradation. This ongoing work is funded as part of the ESRC Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy (CCCEP) where he leads a work package on ‘Closing the Loop’ between science and local society.

Andy is participating in the Power of partnerships: how partnerships in Africa support development session.