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John Morton, is a professor of development anthopology at the University of Greenwich. He has a first degree in Social Anthropology from the University of Cambridge, and a PhD from the University of Hull for a thesis on the social organisation of the Northern Beja, a group of semi-nomadic pastoralists in north-eastern Sudan. After working for Oxfam in north-eastern Sudan (1985-86), he worked as a consultant for a variety of NGOs, UN agencies and as a freelance consultant based in Pakistan. He joined the University of Greenwich in 1993. He has been Professor of Development Anthroplogy since 2004, Associate Research Director (Social Sciences) 2001-2010 and Head of the Livelihoods and Institutions Department since 2010.
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John Morton's research focuses on the impacts of climate change and prospects for adaptation on pastoralists, smallholders, the rural poor, and their prospects for adaptation, particularly in Africa. Through work on droughts and other forms of climate variability in pastoral areas he led research on the impacts of climate change on pastoralists, smallholders and other categories of the rural poor, and their prospects for adaptation.
John Morton served as a Lead Author on smallholder and subsistence agriculture within the chapter on Food, Forests and Fibre of the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 2007, as the coordinating Lead Author on Rural Areas for the Fifth Assessment Report of 2014, and as Lead Author on Risk Management and Decision Making in Relation to Sustainable Development for the Special Report on Climate Change and Land.
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Lead Author and Co-ordinating Lead Author on successive reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (since 2005). Recognised as contributing to the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to the IPCC in 2007.