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Martin Mowforth

 

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Martin Mowforth

  • Job title: Associate Lecturer, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences (ALD) (Faculty of Science and Technology (ALD))
  • Address: Room 112, 8 Kirkby Place, Drake Circus,
    Plymouth, Devon, PL4 8AA
  • Telephone: +441752585993
  • Alternative telephone: +44 (0)1822 617504
  • Facsimile: +44 (0)1752 233054
  • Email: M.Mowforth@plymouth.ac.uk


Role

Visiting Research Fellow in Human Geography

 

Qualifications & background

Qualifications:


Cert.Ed. 1969. Madeley College of Education, Staffs..

B.Sc. (Hon.) Geography, 1974. Birkbeck College, University of London.

M.Sc. The Geography of Urban and Regional Planning, 1976. Birkbeck College, University of London.

Ph.D. Transport Studies, 1984. Transport Studies Group, University College London. Accessibility to employment for different groups of the workforce in Greater London.


Work experience:


1969-1979: Schoolteacher and Head of Geography with the Inner London Education Authority and the London Borough of Brent.

1983-1986: Research assistant at the Transport Studies Group, University College London.

1986-the present: Independent researcher on a range of subjects, especially covering transport planning, tourism and sustainability, disaster management and issues of environment and development in the developing world.

 

Professional membership

None.


Membership of many organisations researching and campaigning on issues of transport, tourism, environment and development, but none of them would be called professional.

 


Teaching interests

Current part-time lecturing commitments in the following modules:

Tutorials

Geography of Tourism and Recreation

Latin America

Dissertation supervision

Geohazards

Masters course on Sustainable Environmental Management - specific elements of the course

 


Research interests

1. New forms of tourism and their association with notions of sustainability.

2. The broad field of issues of environment and development in the developing world, specialising in the region of Central America.

3. Development aid projects.

4. Disaster management.

5. Issues of transport planning.
6. The application of sustainability indicators.

 


Publications

(1979) Statistics for Geographers, London: Nelson Harrap. (Reprinted six times.)

(1998) (With Ian Munt) Tourism and Sustainability: New Tourism in the Third World, London: Routledge. (Reprinted three times.)

(2003) (With Ian Munt - Second Edition, including title change) Tourism and Sustainability: Development and New Tourism in the Third World, London: Routledge.

(2008) (With Ian Munt - Third Edition, including title change) Tourism and Sustainability: Development, Globalisation and New Tourism in the Third World, London: Routledge.
(2001) Storm Warnings: Hurricanes Georges and Mitch and the Lessons for Development, London: Catholic Institute for International Relations.

(2008) (With Clive Charlton and Ian Munt) Tourism and Responsibility: Perspectives from Latin America and the Caribbean, London: Routledge..