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Dr. Nicholson has written extensively on the
topic of desertification, emphasizing Africa, the continent where the
process is assumed to have been most widespread and intense. Her work has
been instrumental in showing that the problem has been widely exaggerated
and demonstrating definitely that, contrary to many hypothesis, this was not
the cause of numerous widespread droughts on the continent. Most of the
work appears in review articles, but includes some remote sensing studies as
well and photographs of desertification processes. |
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 2000:
Land Surface Processes and Sahel Climate. Reviews
of Geophysics, 38, 117-139.
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1999: Variations in the size
of the Sahara desert from 1980: to 1997 (C. J.
Tucker and S. E. Nicholson). Ambio, 28, No. 2, 587-591.
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1998: Desertification, Drought and Surface
Vegetation: An example from the West African Sahel (with C.J. Tucker and
M.B. Ba). Bulliten of the American Meteorolgical Society, 79, 816-829.
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1998: Large-scale
Saharan-Sahelian vegetation variations from 1980: to 1996 derived from
ground precipitation and NOAA satellite data (Tucker, C. J., and S. E.
Nicholson). In Drylands: Sustainable use of rangelands into the
twenty-first century (V. R. Squires and A. E. Sidahmed, eds.). IFAD
(International Fund for Agricultural Development) Series: Technical
Reports, Rome, 237-248
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1998: Desertification.
Encyclopedia of Hydrology and Water Resources (R. Herschy and R. W.
Fairbridge, eds.), Kluwer, Dordrecht,
183-186.
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1978: Drought vs. Desertification: the case of the Sahel.
Social and Technological Management of Dry Lands (N. Gonzalez, ed.), Westview
Press, Boulder, 187-192.
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