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Academic Profile

Malcolm Anderson is a Visiting Professor of the School of Geography and the Environment. Malcolm is currently a member of the Disaster Risk Management Group (Latin America and Caribbean) at the World Bank, Washington DC and Professor of Geographical Sciences at the University of Bristol.

Professor Anderson was Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research) at the University of Bristol (2005-9), where he was also previously Head of the School of Geographical Sciences for 9 years. He undertook PhD research at the University of Cambridge and was elected to a Research Fellowship at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. He was co-founder and Co-Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies at the University of Bristol. He has held a number of overseas appointments, including two twelve month appointments - as environmental research consultant to the US Corps of Engineers at the principle research laboratory, Vicksburg, Mississippi and that of senior consultant research geotechnical engineer to the Hong Kong Government.

Professor Anderson was a Council Member of the Natural Environment Research Council 2001-2007 and of the NERC Council Audit Committee 2003-2007. He was a member of the EPSRC Technology Opportunity Panel 2009-2011.

Processor Anderson is an elected Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers and the recipient of the Trevethick triennial prize awarded by the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1996 and 2007. He is founder and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Hydrological Processes (Wiley-Blackwell), publishing 26 issues per year.

Selected Publications

Books

• Anderson, M.G. and Holcombe, E.A. (forthcoming) Managing Disasters in Small Steps: Community-based landslide risk reduction. World Bank, Washington DC.
• Anderson, M.G. and McDonnell, J.J. (eds.) (2005) Encyclopedia of Hydrological Sciences, 5 Volumes, Wiley.
• Glade, T., Anderson, M.G. and Crozier, M. (eds.) (2005) Landslide Hazard and Risk. John Wiley.
• Anderson, M.G. and Bates, P.D. (eds.) (2001) Model Validation - Perspectives in Hydrological Science. Wiley.
• Anderson, M.G. and Brooks, S.M. (eds.) (1996) Advances in Hillslope Processes. 2 Volumes, Wiley.
• Anderson, M.G., Walling, D.E. and Bates, P.D. (eds.) (1996) Floodplain Processes. Wiley.
• Anderson, M.G. and Burt, T.P. (eds.) (1990) Process Studies in Hillslope Hydrology. Wiley.
• Anderson, M.G. (ed.) (1988) Modelling Geomorphological Systems. Wiley.
• Anderson, M.G. and Richards, K.S. (eds.) (1987) Slope Stability: Geotechnical engineering and geomorphology. Wiley.
• Anderson, M.G. and Burt, T.P. (eds.) (1985) Hydrological Forecasting. Wiley. 605 pp. (also published in Russian 1988).

Research papers since 2004

• Holcombe, E.A., Smith, S., Wright, E., Anderson, M.G. (in press) An integrated approach for evaluating the effectiveness of landslide hazard reduction in vulnerable communities in the Caribbean. Natural Hazards.
• Anderson, M.G. and Holcombe, E.A. (in press) Managing risk in small steps: achieving landslide risk reduction by strategic incrementalism in developing countries. Journal International Development.
• Anderson, M.G., Holcombe, E.A., Blake, J., Ghesquiere, F., Holm-Nielsen, N. and Fisseha, T. (2011) Reducing landslide risk in communities: evidence from the Eastern Caribbean. Applied Geography, 31(2): 590-599.
• Anderson, M.G., Holcombe, E., Esquivel, M., Toro, J., and Ghesquiere, F. (2010) The efficacy of a programme of landslide risk reduction in areas of unplanned housing in the Eastern Caribbean. Environmental Management, 45(4): 807-821.
• Holcombe, E.A. and Anderson, M.G. (2010) Implementation of community-based landslide hazard mitigation measures: the role of stakeholder engagement in 'sustainable' project scale-up. Sustainable Development, 18(6): 331-349.
• Holcombe, E.A. and Anderson, M.G. (2009) Tackling landslide risk: helping land use policy to reflect unplanned housing realities in the eastern Caribbean. Land Use Policy, 27: 798-800.
• Wang, Y., Grove, S., Liu, W.F. and Anderson, M.G. (2008) Modelling and predicting the unsaturated hydraulic transport properties with a new characteristic model. In, Chen, Y.D. and Chen, X. (eds.) Hydrological Sciences for Managing Water Resources in the Asian Developing World. IAHS, pp. 149-156. ISBN: 9781901502442.
• Anderson, M.G. and Holcombe, E.A. (2008) A new sustainable landslide risk reduction methodology for communities in lower income countries. Proceedings of the First World Landslide Forum, First World Landslide Forum, United Nations University, Tokyo, Japan. pp. 61-64.
• Lateh, H., Anderson, M.G., Ahmad, F. and Ramadhansyah, P. (2008) CHASM - the model to predict stability of gully walls along the East-West Highway, Malaysia. Proceedings of the First World Landslide Forum, First World Landslide Forum, United Nations University, Tokyo, Japan. pp. 337-340.
• Wu, G., Stephen, G. and Anderson, M.G. (2008) Modelling water retention characteristic in unsaturated soils. Unsaturated Soils: Advances in Geo-Engineering, The First European Conference on Unsaturated Soils, E-UNSAT, pp. 675-681. ISBN: 9780415476928.
• Anderson, M.G., Holcombe, E.A., Flory, R.J.W. and Renaud, J-P. (2008) Implementing low-cost landslide risk reduction: a pilot study in unplanned housing areas of the Caribbean. Natural Hazards, 47(3): 297-315.
• Grove, S.M., Wang, Y. and Anderson, M.G. (2008) A physical-chemical model for water retention in unsaturated porous media. Advances in Water Resources, 31: 723-735.
• Manning, L.J., Hall, J.W., Kilsby, C.G., Glendinning, S. and Anderson, M.G. (2008) Spatial analysis of the reliability of transport networks subject to rainfall-induced landslides. Hydrological Processes, 22: 3349-3360.
• Anderson, M.G., Holcombe, E.A. and Renaud, J-P. (2007) Assessing slope stability in unplanned settlements in developing countries, Journal of Environmental Management, 85(1): 101-111.
• Anderson, M.G., Holcombe, E.A. and Williams, D. (2007) Reducing landslide risk in areas of unplanned housing in the Caribbean - a government-community partnership model. Journal of International Development, 19: 205-221.
• Anderson, M.G. and Holcombe, E.A. (2006) Purpose-driven public sector reform: the need for within-government capacity build for the management of slope stability in communities in the Caribbean. Environmental Management, 37(1): 15-29.
• Anderson, M.G. and Holcombe, E.A. (2006) Sustainable landslide risk reduction in poorer countries. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers, Engineering Sustainability, 159: 23-30.
• Cloke, H.L., Anderson, M.G. and Renaud, J-P. (2006) Development of a modelling methodology for the investigation of riparian hydrological processes. Hydrological Processes, 20(1): 85-107.
• Cloke, H.L., Anderson, M.G., McDonnell, J.J. and Renaud, J-P. (2006) Using numerical modelling to evaluate the capillary fringe groundwater ridging hypothesis of streamflow generation. Journal of Hydrology, 316(1-4): 141-162.
• Hamm, N.A.S., Hall, J.W. and Anderson, M.G. (2006) Variance-based sensitivity analysis of the probability of hydrologically induced slope instability. Computers and Geosciences, 32(6): 803-817.
• Karnawati, D., Ibraim, I., Anderson, M.G., Holcombe, E.A., Mummery, G.T., Wang, Y. and Renaud, J-P. (2005) An initial approach to identifying slope stability controls in southern Java to provide community-based landslide warning information. In, Glade, T., Anderson, M.G., Crozier, M. (eds.) Landslide Hazard and Risk, pp. 733-763. John Wiley, ISBN: 0471486639.
• Anderson, M.G. and Holcombe, E.A. (2004) Management of slope stability in communities. Insight, 6: 15-17. ISSN: 1680-7049.
• Brooks, S.M., Crozier, M.J., Glade, T.W. and Anderson, M.G. (2004) Towards establishing climatic thresholds for slope stability. Pure and Applied Geophysics, 161: 881-905.
• Hall, J.W., Rubio, E. and Anderson, M.G. (2004) " title="View article on Pure and Applied Geophysics website">Random sets of probability measures in slope hydrology and stability analysis. Journal of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, 84(10-11): 710-720.
• Lloyd, D.M., Anderson, M.G., Renaud, J-P., Wilkinson, P.L. and Brooks, S.M. (2004) On the need to determine appropriate model domains for hydrology slope stability models. Advances in Environmental Research, 8: 379-386.
• Rubio, E., Hall, J.W. and Anderson, M.G. (2004) Uncertainty analysis in a slope hydrology and stability model using probabilistic and imprecise information. Computers and Geotechnics, 31(7): 529-536.
• Wang, Y., Renaud, J-P., Anderson, M.G. and Allen, C.B. (2004) A boundary and soil interface conforming unstructured local mesh refinement for geological structures. Finite Elements in Analysis and Design, 40(11): 1429-1443.