Professor David Demeritt
Professor
Email: david.demeritt@kcl.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)20 7848 2622
Department of Geography
King's College London
K4L.10 Strand Campus
London WC2R 2LS
Research Interests
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cultural politics of climate change
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flood risk management
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environmental politics and policy
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science studies and social theory
Biography
David Demeritt is Professor of Geography, best known for his ability to bridge the discipline’s human-physical divide. He has extensive practical experience of senior university management, of incubating and leading multidisciplinary environmental research projects, and of successfully collaborating with partners in government, NGOs, and industry.
An American ex-pat, he did degrees in history (BA) and Quaternary science (MSc.) at the University of Maine before moving into geography and completing his PhD at the University of British Columbia. After doing a post-doc on climate change policy with Environment Canada, he took up a geography lectureship at Bristol University before coming to Kings in 1999.
David is currently book review editor for Environment and Planning A and a member of the editorial boards for Cultural Geographies and the Journal of Risk Analysis and Crisis Management. He is also a member of the ESRC Grants Assessment Panel and served previously on the NERC Peer Review College. Within King’s he has served as Head of Graduate Studies in SSPP and as the PI and first Director of the King's Interdisciplinary Social Science Doctoral Training Centre (KISS-DTC).