Dr. Paweł Prokop (Poland)
Associate Professor of Physical Geography
Department of Geoenvironmental Research
Institute of Geography and Spatial Organization
Polish Academy of Sciences
Jana 22, 31-018 Kraków
Poland
pawel@zg.pan.krakow.pl
Biography
Paweł Prokop received his PhD from the Institute of Geography and Spatial Organization,
Polish Academy of Sciences in 2006 with a thesis about land degradation of the Meghalaya
Plateau in India. He was then research associate at the Department of Geomorphology and
Hydrology of Mountains and Uplands (now Geoenvironmental Research) at the same
Institute. He received post-doctoral degree (habilitation) in 2014 with a dissertation about
human impact on environment in the monsoonal climate of Northeast India.
Research interests
Paweł Prokop is leading scientist in a joint Polish-Indian projects. His research interests
concerns land degradation and natural hazards (extreme rainfalls, mass movements, floods) in
India. He also is involved in research activities in Poland, Slovenia and Mongolia.
Recent publications
Poręba G., Prokop P., 2011. Estimation of soil erosion on cultivated fields on the hilly
Meghalaya Plateau, North-East India. Geochronometria 38(1): 77-84.
Prokop P., Bhattacharyya A., 2011. Reconnaissance of Quaternary sediments from Khasi
Hills, Meghalaya. Journal of the Geological Society of India 78: 258-262.
Prokop P., Poręba G., 2012. Soil erosion associated with an upland farming system under
population pressure in Northeast India. Land Degradation and Development 23: 310-321.
Prokop P., Suliga I., 2013. Two thousand years of iron smelting in the Khasi Hills,
Meghalaya, North East India. Current Science 104(6): 761-768.
Migoń P., Prokop P., 2013. Landforms and landscape evolution in the Mylliem granite area,
Meghalaya Plateau, Northeast India. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography 34: 206-228.
Prokop P., Ploskonka D., 2014. Natural and human impact on the land use and soil properties
of the Sikkim Himalayas piedmont in India. Journal of Environmental Management 138: 1523.
Prokop P., Walanus A., 2014. Variation in the orographic extreme rain events over the
Meghalaya Hills in northeast India in the two halves of the twentieth century. Theoretical and
Applied Climatology, DOI 10.1007/s00704-014-1224-x.
Prokop P., 2014. The Meghalaya Plateau: Landscapes in the abode of the clouds (in:) V.S.
Kale (ed.) Landscapes and Landforms of India, World Geomorphological Landscapes,
Springer, 173-180.