Rivers of Civilisation

is leading interdisciplinary research in both the Desert Nile, Sudan, (in collaboration with the British Museum, the 圧利郭肱 of Manchester and Yale 圧利郭肱) and in Aral Sea basin, Kazakhstan, (in collaboration with UV 圧利郭肱 Amsterdam, UCL, 圧利郭肱 of Oxford, and JSC Institute of Geography and Water Safety, Almaty, Republic of Kazakhstan) investigating the impact of Holocene and historical climate change on floodwater farming in dryland rivers. This forms part of longer-term and worldwide study of people river environment interactions (e.g. Macklin and Lewin (2015) QSR, 114, 228-244; Toonen, Macklin et al. (2020) PNAS, www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.2009553117) in large river systems, including the Danube, Ganga, Indus and Zambezi.