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Dr. Donovan Campbell
Assistant Lecturer
donovan.campbell@uwimona.edu.jm

 

donovancampbell@gmail.com

Current Research

Domestic Food Production and Hazard Vulnerability in Jamaica

Climate change adaptation

Agriculture and rural livelihoods

Crop suitability modelling

Remote sensing and GIS

Agroecological zoning

 

Selected Publications

Beckford C., Campbell. D., Barker D. Sustainable Food Production Systems and Food Security: Economic and Environmental Imperatives in Yam Cultivation in Trelawny, Jamaica. Sustainability. 2011; 3(3):541-561

Campbell, D., Barker, D. & D.F.M. McGregor (2010) Dealing with drought: Small farmers and environmental hazards in southern St. Elizabeth, Jamaica, Applied Geography, In Press, Available online 18 April 2010, ISSN 0143-6228, DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2010.03.007.

Gamble, D.W., Campbell, D., Allen, T.L., Barker, D., Scott Curtis, S., McGregor, D.F.M. & J. Popke (2010) Climate Change, Drought, and Jamaican Agriculture: Local Knowledge and the Climate Record, Annals, Association of American Geographers, 100(4), pp880-893

Campbell, D & Beckford, C (2009) Negotiating uncertainty: Small farmers' coping strategies before and after an encounter with Hurricane Dean, Sustainability, 1, 1366-1387; doi:10.3390/su1041366: http://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/1/4/1366/pdf

McGregor, D.F.M., Barker, D. & D. Campbell (2009) ‘Environmental Change and Caribbean Food Security: recent hazard impacts and domestic food production in Jamaica’, in McGregor, D.F.M., Dodman, D. & D. Barker(eds) /Global Change and Caribbean Vulnerability: Environment, Economy and Society at Risk, /UWI Press, Kingston, Jamaica, pp197-217

Campbell D. (2008) "Small farming in an era of global change and uncertainty" Jamaican Geographer, No. 18, pp.4

Other Publications

  • Campbell. D (2008) Small farming in an era of global change and uncertainty, Jamaican Geographer, No. 18, pp.4
  • Broad, G, Campbell, D ., Frazier, T., Howe, P., Murtinho, F., Hernandez, H., (2010) The Visualization of Slow-Developing Hazards: Influencing Perceptions and Behaviors to Facilitate Adaptation, White Paper. National Science Foundation: Pan-American Advanced Studies Institute for the Integration of Climate Change and Hazards in the Americas, 20p

    Barker, D and Campbell, D (2011) Farmers and the weather: making sense of climate change, Carib Xplorer, Vol 2 Issue 1 (forthcoming)

Conference Participation

  • Campbell, D (2011) ‘Domestic Food Production and Hazard Vulnerability: Adaptation and Change in southern St. Elizabeth' presented at the International Center for Tropical Agriculture, Cali, Colombia- May 30
  • Barker, D & Campbell, D (2011) ‘Local responses to climate change in Jamaican agriculture: farmers' perspectives' presented at the International conference on Responding to Climate Change in the Caribbean in London-June 13-14

    Campbell, D ., Barker, D (2011) ‘ Jamaican agro-ecological zones and climate change: a comparison of farmers' perceptions of changing weather and climate and their capacity to respond global change ' presented at the annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers (AAG), Seattle-April 12-16

    Frazier, T, Murtinho, F, Broad, G, Campbell, D , Howe , P, and Hernandez, H (2011) ‘Visualization of slow-developing hazards: Influencing perceptions and behaviors to facilitate adaptation planning.' Paper. American Meteorological Society, 91st Annual Meeting. Seattle, WA: January 22

    Campbell, D ., Barker, D (2010) ‘Climate change and adaptation in Jamaica's agriculture: Farmers' perceptions of changing weather patterns in different agro-ecological zones', presented at the annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers (AAG), Washington DC-April 14-18

    Curtis, S., Gamble, D., Campbell, D ., Allen, T, Jessop, S (2010) 'The Mid-summer dry spell (MSD) and water sustainability in Jamaica', presented at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil, August 8-12

    Broad, G, Campbell, D ., Frazier, T., Howe, P., Murtinho, F., Hernandez, H., (2010) ‘The Visualization of Slow-Developing Hazards: Influencing Perceptions and Behaviors to Facilitate Adaptation' presented at the Pan-American Advanced Studies Institute for the Integration of Climate Change and Hazards in the Americas, Panama, June 13

    Campbell, D ., Barker, D. & D.F.M. McGregor (2008) ‘Dealing with drought: small farmers and environmental hazards in southern St Elizabeth', paper presented at Geography Geology Conference, UWI's 60^th anniversary, Mona campus, Jamaica, July 2008.

    Campbell, D. & Barker, D (2009) 'Global Change and domestic food production in Jamaica: small farmers' vulnerability and adaptation to drought and water deficit in southern St Elizabeth', presented at conference on 'Food Security & Agricultural Development in the Americas', July 28-30th, University of the West Indies, Mona campus

    Campbell, D . & Barker, D (2009) 'Hazards and agriculture: a comparison of Jamaican farmers' vulnerability and adaptation to hurricanes and drought', presented at the annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers (AAG), Las Vegas, NV – March 22–27

    Campbell, D (2007) 'Negotiating uncertainty: Small farmers' coping strategies before and after an encounter with Hurricane Dean', presented at the annual meeting of the Southeastern Division of the Association of American Geographers (SEDAAG), Charleston, South Carolina, November 18 - 20th

    McGregor, D.F.M., Campbell, D . & D. Barker (2009) ‘Environmental Change and Caribbean Food Security: recent hazard impacts and domestic food production in Jamaica', presented at conference on ‘The World Food Crisis and the Global South', January27-28^th , Institute for the Study of the Americas/School of Oriental & African Studies, University of London.

    McGregor, D.F.M., Campbell, D . & D. Barker (2008) ‘Environmental Change and Caribbean Food Security: recent hazard impacts and domestic food production in Jamaica', Annual Conference of Royal Geographical Society/Institute of British Geographers, 27-29th August, Kings College, University of London

    Rhiney, K. & D. Campbell (2009) ‘Boosting local capacity and strengthening linkages: farmers' groups and their supply links with the Jamaican tourism industry', paper presented at the Meeting on Food Security and Agricultural Development in the Americas, Kingston, University of the West Indies, Mona, July 27-29

     

Courses

GEOG 3301 - Geography of the Caribbean
GGEO 3301 - Introduction to Geographic Information System and Remote Sensing
GGEO 3302 - Disaster Management

Professional Society Memberships

    Association of American Geographers (AAG)

    Pan-American Advanced Studies Institute (PASI)

    Weather and Society*Integrated Studies (WAS*IS)

    Jamaica Geographical society (JGS)


 

 
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