Hugh Brammer
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1404922 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Hugh Brammer |
| NOMBRES | Hugh |
| APELLIDO | Brammer |
| FIRMA | BRAMMER H |
| AFILIACIONES | East Sussex County Council |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 24 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 50 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 24 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1956 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Map and Archival Evidence of the Historical Avulsion of the Brahmaputra River
The Brahmaputra River is one of the world's largest rivers, entering the Bengal Basin from its extensive Himalayan catchment, flowing south through Bangladesh, and joining the Ganges to traverse a complex fan‐delta and enter the Bay of Bengal. When Major James Rennell surveyed the river to establish the ‘Route Surveys’ for the East India Company between 1765 and 1777, it followed a different course, turning to the South‐East into the Sylhet Basin…
Impact of Urbanization on Groundwater Quality of Water Bodies in Cities
Preserving cultural heritage requires a profound grasp of authenticity and integrity embedded within architectural design, material choices, and contextual significance.The preservation, accurate representation, and storytelling of a cultural property's original form, historical context, and intrinsic worth all fall under the umbrella of authenticity in heritage management.However, the diverse interpretations of this concept pose a significant ch…
Soil-environmental relationships on the Brahmaputra and Ganges floodplains in Bangladesh
The reconnaissance soil survey of Pakistan 1961–71 produced important new information on the environmental relationships of soils on the Brahmaputra and Ganges floodplains in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) which provided a sound basis for agricultural land use planning in the country. The greater part of the territory was found to have been formed in sediments deposited by tributary and distributary rivers, not by the two major rivers themselves.…
The historical avulsion of the Tista River, and its relationship to the Brahmaputra
Alluvial fans are constructed when river deposition raises local elevations until the river "avulses" to an alternative lower elevation alignment. Avulsions may be triggered by exogenous events, such as floods that locally overtop the river's banks; they may then cause extreme flooding on a fan and have major impacts. Rivers draining the Himalayas into the Gangetic plain have behaved historically in this way; for example, the Kosi River's histori…
Problems with analysing meteorological data for assessing climate change
Climate is not changing uniformly within geographical regions, and long-term changes can be cyclical or irregular in some regions. The latter means that the standard statistical methods for analysing meteorological data that produce linear outputs can give misleading trends, with consequent misleading environmental and socio-economic outputs of models using such trends as inputs. Additionally, national and regional climate trends do not necessari…
Bangladesh’s diverse and complex physical geography
Bangladesh’s physical geography is much more diverse and complex than is generally recognised. The landscapes of piedmont, river, tidal and estuarine floodplains, uplifted blocks and hill areas are described together with the associated environmental hazards that currently constrain crop production in specific regions. Practical measures to increase crop production in parallel with the projected increase in the country’s population in the next 20…
Environmental implications of three modern agricultural practices
Substantial and rapid changes in agricultural land management practices are being made in many countries on all five inhabited continents: Conservation Agriculture, comprising practices that avoid or minimise mechanical soil disturbance, maintain a protective soil mulch cover, and produce crops in rotations or associations; the System of Rice Intensification, in which rice is grown in mainly moist, aerobic soils; and Precision Agriculture, using …
Floods, cyclones, drought and climate change in Bangladesh
This paper seeks to correct prevailing assumptions about Bangladesh's susceptibility to floods, tropical cyclones and drought, and the extent to which global warming has already affected the country's climate. Analysis of 50 years of the country's climate and hydrological data showed no evidence that rainfall amounts have changed or that floods, tropical cyclones and droughts have increased in frequency or severity. The extent to which global war…
Implications of soil complexity for environmental monitoring
International proposals for national soil and environmental monitoring lack adequate awareness of the diversity and complexity of soils. These need to be considered in sampling and reporting. This paper provides examples of the diversity and complexity of soil and environmental conditions in Bangladesh and Ghana, including differences between physiographic regions, within soil toposequences, between and within neighbouring fields, and in areas of…
Bangladesh’s dynamic coastal regions and sea-level rise
The physical geography of Bangladesh’s coastal area is more diverse and dynamic than is generally recognised. Failure to recognise this has led to serious misconceptions about the potential impacts of a rising sea-level on Bangladesh with global warming. This situation has been aggravated by accounts giving incorrect information on current rates of coastal erosion and land subsidence. This paper describes physical conditions within individual phy…
Reply to Sumberg et al
We reassert our claim made in an earlier C ommentary that C onservation A griculture ( CA ) and the S ystem of Rice Intensification ( SRI ) are providing considerable environmental and socio‐economic benefits to large and growing numbers of practising farmers. CA helps to reduce soil degradation, increase and sustain yields, and sequester carbon. SRI practices reduce water use and methane emissions, and provided a world record rice yield of 21.16…
Combining sustainable agricultural production with economic and environmental benefits
Two paradigm shifts in agriculture are taking place that provide important benefits to farmers and to the environment. Conservation Agriculture involves minimising soil disturbance by avoiding tillage operations; maintaining a continuous soil cover of plants and mulch; and cultivating diverse plant species. Together, these practices protect soils against erosion and desiccation; increase soil organic matter contents that in turn increase soil moi…
After the Bangladesh Flood Action Plan
The main objectives of the Bangladesh Flood Action Plan (FAP), to protect the country from river floods, were not achieved, for several political, economic and institutional reasons. Demographic and economic changes in the following 20 years have increased Bangladesh's exposure to damaging floods. The country's newly elected government is committed to providing flood protection and surface-water irrigation as a means to achieve national foodgrain…
Geology of Bangladesh
Floods in Bangladesh
TO EMBANK or not to embank Bangladesh's major rivers: that is the multi-billion dollar question exercising the minds of both Bangladeshi and donor-country politicians, bureaucrats, professionals and lay persons after the worldwide TV portrayal of the devastation and misery caused by the 1988 flood. In Bangladesh, a strong engineering lobby, with high-level political support, clamours for a priority programme to embark the full length of the count…
Floods in Bangladesh
Managing Canal Irrigation
International Conference on the Greenhouse Effect and Coastal Areas of Bangladesh
Soil Landscape Analysis
All forms of plant, animal, and human life are supported by soil, and there has been a recent need for a fully documented analysis of terrain that draws on many available sources in this country and abroad. This illustrated text has answered that need. Going beyond soil morphology and classification to provide an interpretation of the patterns of soil bodies and the distribution of plant and animal communities on land, the authors have provided a…
Seminar on Bangladesh Floods
Rural Development and Survival Strategies in Central Paraguay
Drought in Bangladesh
The 1978-1979 drought in Bangladesh affected three crop seasons, reducing rice production by an estimated two million tons. Rainfall deficiency varied regionally and locally, and drought effects varied with soils, crops and management. Farmers used new practices such as irrigation of crops normally grown rainfed, cultivation of famine millets, and - when rain eventually fell - transplanting crops that normally are direct seeded (including replant…
Disaster preparedness for farmers
In summary, four elements are considered to be essential for introducing a national system of agricultural disaster preparedness planning: the initiative should be taken by the Ministry of Agriculture (or its equivalent); within project areas, the initiative should be taken by the project authority, although preferably within a national system; contingency planning should form part of an annual/ seasonal agricultural production planning; appropri…
Visit to Haute Volta, 30th January-3rd March, 1955
Floods in Bangladesh
Floods in Bangladesh
TO EMBANK or not to embank Bangladesh's major rivers: that is the multi-billion dollar question exercising the minds of both Bangladeshi and donor-country politicians, bureaucrats, professionals and lay persons after the worldwide TV portrayal of the devastation and misery caused by the 1988 flood. In Bangladesh, a strong engineering lobby, with high-level political support, clamours for a priority programme to embark the full length of the count…
Combining sustainable agricultural production with economic and environmental benefits
Two paradigm shifts in agriculture are taking place that provide important benefits to farmers and to the environment. Conservation Agriculture involves minimising soil disturbance by avoiding tillage operations; maintaining a continuous soil cover of plants and mulch; and cultivating diverse plant species. Together, these practices protect soils against erosion and desiccation; increase soil organic matter contents that in turn increase soil moi…
After the Bangladesh Flood Action Plan
The main objectives of the Bangladesh Flood Action Plan (FAP), to protect the country from river floods, were not achieved, for several political, economic and institutional reasons. Demographic and economic changes in the following 20 years have increased Bangladesh's exposure to damaging floods. The country's newly elected government is committed to providing flood protection and surface-water irrigation as a means to achieve national foodgrain…
Drought in Bangladesh
The 1978-1979 drought in Bangladesh affected three crop seasons, reducing rice production by an estimated two million tons. Rainfall deficiency varied regionally and locally, and drought effects varied with soils, crops and management. Farmers used new practices such as irrigation of crops normally grown rainfed, cultivation of famine millets, and - when rain eventually fell - transplanting crops that normally are direct seeded (including replant…
The historical avulsion of the Tista River, and its relationship to the Brahmaputra
Alluvial fans are constructed when river deposition raises local elevations until the river "avulses" to an alternative lower elevation alignment. Avulsions may be triggered by exogenous events, such as floods that locally overtop the river's banks; they may then cause extreme flooding on a fan and have major impacts. Rivers draining the Himalayas into the Gangetic plain have behaved historically in this way; for example, the Kosi River's histori…
Reply to Sumberg et al
We reassert our claim made in an earlier C ommentary that C onservation A griculture ( CA ) and the S ystem of Rice Intensification ( SRI ) are providing considerable environmental and socio‐economic benefits to large and growing numbers of practising farmers. CA helps to reduce soil degradation, increase and sustain yields, and sequester carbon. SRI practices reduce water use and methane emissions, and provided a world record rice yield of 21.16…
Geology of Bangladesh
Managing Canal Irrigation
Rural Development and Survival Strategies in Central Paraguay
Visit to Haute Volta, 30th January-3rd March, 1955
Disaster preparedness for farmers
In summary, four elements are considered to be essential for introducing a national system of agricultural disaster preparedness planning: the initiative should be taken by the Ministry of Agriculture (or its equivalent); within project areas, the initiative should be taken by the project authority, although preferably within a national system; contingency planning should form part of an annual/ seasonal agricultural production planning; appropri…
Drought in Bangladesh
The 1978-1979 drought in Bangladesh affected three crop seasons, reducing rice production by an estimated two million tons. Rainfall deficiency varied regionally and locally, and drought effects varied with soils, crops and management. Farmers used new practices such as irrigation of crops normally grown rainfed, cultivation of famine millets, and - when rain eventually fell - transplanting crops that normally are direct seeded (including replant…
International Conference on the Greenhouse Effect and Coastal Areas of Bangladesh
Soil Landscape Analysis
All forms of plant, animal, and human life are supported by soil, and there has been a recent need for a fully documented analysis of terrain that draws on many available sources in this country and abroad. This illustrated text has answered that need. Going beyond soil morphology and classification to provide an interpretation of the patterns of soil bodies and the distribution of plant and animal communities on land, the authors have provided a…
Seminar on Bangladesh Floods
Rural Development and Survival Strategies in Central Paraguay
Floods in Bangladesh
TO EMBANK or not to embank Bangladesh's major rivers: that is the multi-billion dollar question exercising the minds of both Bangladeshi and donor-country politicians, bureaucrats, professionals and lay persons after the worldwide TV portrayal of the devastation and misery caused by the 1988 flood. In Bangladesh, a strong engineering lobby, with high-level political support, clamours for a priority programme to embark the full length of the count…
Floods in Bangladesh
Managing Canal Irrigation
Geology of Bangladesh
After the Bangladesh Flood Action Plan
The main objectives of the Bangladesh Flood Action Plan (FAP), to protect the country from river floods, were not achieved, for several political, economic and institutional reasons. Demographic and economic changes in the following 20 years have increased Bangladesh's exposure to damaging floods. The country's newly elected government is committed to providing flood protection and surface-water irrigation as a means to achieve national foodgrain…
Reply to Sumberg et al
We reassert our claim made in an earlier C ommentary that C onservation A griculture ( CA ) and the S ystem of Rice Intensification ( SRI ) are providing considerable environmental and socio‐economic benefits to large and growing numbers of practising farmers. CA helps to reduce soil degradation, increase and sustain yields, and sequester carbon. SRI practices reduce water use and methane emissions, and provided a world record rice yield of 21.16…
Combining sustainable agricultural production with economic and environmental benefits
Two paradigm shifts in agriculture are taking place that provide important benefits to farmers and to the environment. Conservation Agriculture involves minimising soil disturbance by avoiding tillage operations; maintaining a continuous soil cover of plants and mulch; and cultivating diverse plant species. Together, these practices protect soils against erosion and desiccation; increase soil organic matter contents that in turn increase soil moi…
Bangladesh’s dynamic coastal regions and sea-level rise
The physical geography of Bangladesh’s coastal area is more diverse and dynamic than is generally recognised. Failure to recognise this has led to serious misconceptions about the potential impacts of a rising sea-level on Bangladesh with global warming. This situation has been aggravated by accounts giving incorrect information on current rates of coastal erosion and land subsidence. This paper describes physical conditions within individual phy…
Implications of soil complexity for environmental monitoring
International proposals for national soil and environmental monitoring lack adequate awareness of the diversity and complexity of soils. These need to be considered in sampling and reporting. This paper provides examples of the diversity and complexity of soil and environmental conditions in Bangladesh and Ghana, including differences between physiographic regions, within soil toposequences, between and within neighbouring fields, and in areas of…
Environmental implications of three modern agricultural practices
Substantial and rapid changes in agricultural land management practices are being made in many countries on all five inhabited continents: Conservation Agriculture, comprising practices that avoid or minimise mechanical soil disturbance, maintain a protective soil mulch cover, and produce crops in rotations or associations; the System of Rice Intensification, in which rice is grown in mainly moist, aerobic soils; and Precision Agriculture, using …
Floods, cyclones, drought and climate change in Bangladesh
This paper seeks to correct prevailing assumptions about Bangladesh's susceptibility to floods, tropical cyclones and drought, and the extent to which global warming has already affected the country's climate. Analysis of 50 years of the country's climate and hydrological data showed no evidence that rainfall amounts have changed or that floods, tropical cyclones and droughts have increased in frequency or severity. The extent to which global war…
Bangladesh’s diverse and complex physical geography
Bangladesh’s physical geography is much more diverse and complex than is generally recognised. The landscapes of piedmont, river, tidal and estuarine floodplains, uplifted blocks and hill areas are described together with the associated environmental hazards that currently constrain crop production in specific regions. Practical measures to increase crop production in parallel with the projected increase in the country’s population in the next 20…
Problems with analysing meteorological data for assessing climate change
Climate is not changing uniformly within geographical regions, and long-term changes can be cyclical or irregular in some regions. The latter means that the standard statistical methods for analysing meteorological data that produce linear outputs can give misleading trends, with consequent misleading environmental and socio-economic outputs of models using such trends as inputs. Additionally, national and regional climate trends do not necessari…
The historical avulsion of the Tista River, and its relationship to the Brahmaputra
Alluvial fans are constructed when river deposition raises local elevations until the river "avulses" to an alternative lower elevation alignment. Avulsions may be triggered by exogenous events, such as floods that locally overtop the river's banks; they may then cause extreme flooding on a fan and have major impacts. Rivers draining the Himalayas into the Gangetic plain have behaved historically in this way; for example, the Kosi River's histori…
Soil-environmental relationships on the Brahmaputra and Ganges floodplains in Bangladesh
The reconnaissance soil survey of Pakistan 1961–71 produced important new information on the environmental relationships of soils on the Brahmaputra and Ganges floodplains in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) which provided a sound basis for agricultural land use planning in the country. The greater part of the territory was found to have been formed in sediments deposited by tributary and distributary rivers, not by the two major rivers themselves.…
Impact of Urbanization on Groundwater Quality of Water Bodies in Cities
Preserving cultural heritage requires a profound grasp of authenticity and integrity embedded within architectural design, material choices, and contextual significance.The preservation, accurate representation, and storytelling of a cultural property's original form, historical context, and intrinsic worth all fall under the umbrella of authenticity in heritage management.However, the diverse interpretations of this concept pose a significant ch…
Map and Archival Evidence of the Historical Avulsion of the Brahmaputra River
The Brahmaputra River is one of the world's largest rivers, entering the Bengal Basin from its extensive Himalayan catchment, flowing south through Bangladesh, and joining the Ganges to traverse a complex fan‐delta and enter the Bay of Bengal. When Major James Rennell surveyed the river to establish the ‘Route Surveys’ for the East India Company between 1765 and 1777, it followed a different course, turning to the South‐East into the Sylhet Basin…
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