Award of the Institute of Australian Geographers' Australia-International Medal

摘要

Ian Douglas has had a major and ongoing influence on physical, environmental and applied geography in the Australian region and internationally, commencing with his pioneering ANU PhD thesis on rates of denudation in eastern Australia. This research explicitly recognised the magnitude of human impacts on erosion rates and soon extended to consider the impacts of urban environments on river systems. Perhaps the two books which most closely identified his interests in his earlier career were his texts on Humid Landforms (ANU Press 1977) and The Urban Environment (Edward Arnold 1983).