Mike Bithell
Assistant Director of Research in Computing
Department of Geography
University of Cambridge
United Kingdom
Biography
Career 1999-2002 Research Staff, School of Geography and the Environment, Oxford. 1992-1999 Senior Research Fellow, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Qualifications MA, Physics, University of Cambridge PhD. Astrophysics, University of Cambridge
Research Interest
Current interests include: Land-use change. Simulation of discrete particle flows and their interactions with fluids. Multi-agent simulation models of population dynamics and the emergence of structure in complex systems Generation of robust models for socio-economic systems and their relation to environmental change
Publications
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Bithell, M., Richards, K.S. and Bithell, E.G., 2014. Simulation of scree-slope dynamics: Investigating the distribution of debris avalanche events in an idealized two-dimensional model. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, v. 39, p.1601-1610.
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Twongyirwe, R., Bithell, M., Richards, K.S. and Rees, W.G., 2015. Three decades of forest cover change in Uganda's Northern Albertine Rift Landscape. Land Use Policy, v. 49, p.236-251.
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Twongyirwe, R., Bithell, M., Richards, K.S. and Rees, W.G., 2017. Do livelihood typologies influence local perceptions of forest cover change? Evidence from a tropical forested and non-forested rural landscape in western Uganda. Journal of Rural Studies, v. 50, p.12-29.
