一、Troy Sternberg 教授简介
Dr. Troy Sternberg
School of Geography, Oxford University
South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QY, U.K.
Email: troy.sternberg@geog.ox.ac.uk
Tel: 44 (0) 1865 285070
 Education:
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Geography, Oxford University, Oxford, U.K. Title: Nomadic
Geography: Pastoral environments in the Gobi Desert, Mongolia. May, 2009.
Masters of Science, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, U.S. Fall, 2004.
Bachelor of Arts, University of California at Los Angeles, U.S. 1981.
 National Awards:
Fall 2011. Thesiger-Oman International Fellowship, Royal Geographical Society. Fellowship
provides for fieldwork in the Gobi Desert, Asia.
Fall 2010-2013. British Academy Post-Doctoral Fellowship. Title: The challenge of humanhazard interaction: documentation, social exposure and system resilience in the Gobi Desert,
Asia.
June 2006 – June 2007. Slawson Fellowship, Royal Geographical Society. D.Phil research
grant investigated pastoral environments in the Gobi Desert, Mongolia.
January – September 2005. Fulbright Scholarship - Mongolia, U.S. State Department.
 Professional Experience:
British Academy Post-Doctoral Fellowship. December 2011 to present. Research examines
human-hazard interaction in the Gobi Desert, Asia. Focus is on hazard documentation, social
exposure and system resilience. Work then evaluates how a changing climate will affect
hazards and thus people and societies in the region.
United Nations Development Program – Project Consultant - ‘Strengthening the Disaster
Mitigation and Management System in Mongolia’. Coordinated national implementation of
Climate Change Adaptation/Disaster Risk Reduction frameworks in Mongolia focused on the
current extreme winter disaster. December 2009 - January 2010.
March 2009 to October 2010. Ivy on Walls Project. Rock Breakdown Lab, Geography
Department, Oxford University. Post Doctoral Research Assistant. Research investigates
the role of ivy as an agent of bio-deterioration or bio-protection on walls through microclimate measurement of ivy on historic buildings in Oxford and throughout England.
Responsible for project coordination, field observation at multiple sites in England, and data
analysis/interpretation.
February 2008 to February 2010. Refugee Studies Centre, Development Studies Department,
Oxford University. Organized Mobile Indigenous Peoples participation at the United Nations
and IUCN World Conservation Congress. Organized three week workshop on social science
research methods for Chinese scholars, St Cross College, Oxford.
 Conference Organizer
1st Oxford Interdisciplinary Desert Conference; Integrating Research, Expanding Knowledge.
School of Geography, Oxford University, April 15-16, 2010 http://www.geog.ox.ac.uk/
news/events/deserts/
Oxford Hazard Forum. Bringing researchers together to reduce hazard impact on society (with
Kate Donovan). 2010 - 2011.
Desert environments: politics, ecology and nature. American Association of Geographers
April 13-16, 2011 - Seattle, USA.
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Publications:
Sternberg, T. 2011. Regional drought has a global impact. Nature. 472:169.
Sternberg, T.. 2010. Unravelling Mongolia’s extreme winter disaster of 2010. Nomadic
Peoples.
Sternberg, T. In press, 2010. Drought and extreme climate stress on human-environment
systems in the Gobi Desert, Mongolia. In: Vulnerability and Resilience of Land Systems
in Asia. Springer, N.Y.
Sternberg, T. In press. 2010. Pastoral mosaic: livelihood, mobility, differentiation, and
environmental engagement on the Inner Asian steppe. In: Contemporary Mongolia:
Transitions, Development and Social Transformations. Brill, Netherlands.
Sternberg, T., Thomas, D., Middleton, N. 2010. Drought dynamics on the Mongolian Steppe
1970-2006. International Journal of Climatology. DOI: 10.1002/joc.2195.
Sternberg, T., Tsolmon, R., Middleton, N., Thomas, D. 2010. Tracking desertification on the
Mongolian Steppe through NDVI and field-survey data. International Journal of Digital
Earth. 3:1-15.
Sternberg, T., Middleton, N., Thomas, D. 2009. Pressurized pastoralism in South Gobi
Province, Mongolia: What is the role of drought? Transactions of British Geographers IBG. 34: 364-377.
Sternberg, T. 2009. Book review: Sustainable Development in Western China. International
Development Planning Review. 31: 327-328.
Sternberg, T. 2009. Мал аж ахуйн хэлбэр, арга ажиллагаа. (Pastoralism article published in
Mongolian). Mongolian Geographical Issues. May 2009.
Sternberg, T., Chatty, D. 2008. Mobile indigenous peoples. Forced Migration Review. 31:2526.
Sternberg, T. 2008. Environmental challenges in Mongolia’s dryland pastoral landscape.
Journal of Arid Environments. 72: 1294-1304.
Tsolmon, R., Ochirkhuyag, L., Sternberg, T. 2008. Monitoring the source of trans-national
dust storms in northeast Asia. International Journal of Digital Earth. 1: 119-129.
Sternberg, T. In review, 2010. Global climate frameworks in developing countries: disaster
policy implementation in Mongolia. Climate Policy.
Sternberg, T., Viles, H., Cathersides, A., Edwards, M. 2010. Dust particulate absorption by
ivy (Hedera helix L) on historic walls in urban environments. Science of the Total
Environment.DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2010.09.022.
Sternberg, T., Viles, H., Cathersides, A. 2010. Evaluating the role of ivy (Hedera helix) in
moderating wall surface microclimates and contributing to the bioprotection of historic
buildings. Building and Environment. DOI: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2010.07.017.
 Book
Editor/author. Changing deserts: integrating arid environments. To be published by White
Horse Press, 2011.
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Presentations:
Unravelling the complexites of Mongolia’s extreme winter disaster of 2010. American
Association of Geographers Conference. April, 2011. Seattle, USA
Implementing global climate frameworks in developing countries: policy perspective from
Mongolia.
Royal Geographical Society – IBG Annual Conference, September, 2010. London, England
 Role of Drought & Dzud - Intl. Anthropological/Ethnological Sciences. July, 2009. Kunming,
China.
 Vulnerability and Resilience of Land Systems in Asia Conference, June, 2009. Beijing.
 Contemporary Mongolia – Transition and Social Transformation. 2008. Vancouver, Canada.
 Pastoral Transitions in Mongolia and Transition from a Soviet to a market-oriented development
approach
on the Mongolian steppe - Royal Geographical Society, August, 2008. London, England
 Steppe Vegetation Dynamics, International Grasslands Conference VII. June, 2008. Hohhot,
China.
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 800 Anniversary of Mongolian Statehood, U.K. representative, June, 2006. Ulaan Baatar.
 Summer Institute for Advanced Study of Disaster and Risk. Workshop – sponsored
participant. Beijing Normal University, August 2-13, 2010. Beijing, China.
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二、报告内容简介
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The challenge of human-hazard interaction
documentation, social exposure and system resilience in the Gobi Desert, Asia
Dr. Troy Sternberg
Oxford University/School of Geography
Abstract
The Gobi desert’s 25 million inhabitants face the endemic natural hazards of drought and
dzud (extreme winter conditions). In combination they can devastate communities and
economies, yet the hazards have received little scientific attention and remain poorly
understood. Improving basic knowledge of hazards is important because of the disruption
they bring to physical, social and agro-pastoral systems and thus livelihoods, human wellbeing and ecosystems in this geopolitically sensitive region.
This proposal investigates how drought, dzud and climate impact societies in the Gobi
region of northern China and southern Mongolia. Themes of hazard identification, social
exposure and resilience, a changing climate and hazard influence on human systems will be
examined through interviews, data analysis and source materials. Research will provide a
rare exploration of the unusual dynamics of the Gobi region with implications for both
countries as well as the global community as it increasingly engages with East Asia.