Background
Scholarship
His research includes the study of the later Mesolithic and early Neolithic in their environmental setting on English uplands, where he has demonstrated the role of these early human communities in initiating some of Britain's characteristic landscape elements. His work also encompasses the long-term effects of human manipulation of the natural environment and its consequences for resource use and environmental change. This line of work resulted in his last three books, which looked at environmental history on three nested scales: the moorlands of England and Wales, Great Britain, and the Globe. Each dealt with the last 10,000 years and tried to encompassboth conventional science-based data with the insights of the social sciences and humanities. Simmons has authored several books on environmental thought and culture over the ages as well as contemporary resource management and environmental problems. Since retirement he has worked on the landscape history of the area of East Lincolnshire where he was a war-time evacuee and has published some papers on the medieval economy and drainage as well as a wide-ranging website at www.dur.ac.uk/east-lincs-historyHonours
* Fellow of the British Academy elected in 1997 for research into human-environmental relations, past and future. * FSA Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London, 1979 * Victoria Medal, Royal Geographical Society 1997 * Chairman of the Environmental Working Group of the Institute of British Geographers * Member of theKey publications
* Simmons IG, KJ Gregory, A Brazel, J W Day, EA Keller. 2008. ''Environmental Sciences: A Student's Companion.'' Sage Publications. * Simmons, I.G. 2008. ''Global Environmental History: 10,000 BC to AD 2000''. Chicago : University of Chicago Press and Edinburgh University Press. * Simmons IG. 2003. ''The moorlands of England and Wales: an environmental history 8000 BC to AD 2000''. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press. * Simmons IG 2001 ''An Environmental History of Great Britain: from 10,000 Years Ago to the Present''. Edinburgh University Press. * Atkins P, I. G. Simmons, B. Roberts. 1998. ''People, Land and Time: An Historical Introduction to the Relations Between Landscape, Culture and Environment''. Arnold. * Simmons I.G. 1997. ''Humanity & Environment: a cultural ecology''. Longman. 0582225477 * Simmons, I.G. 1996. ''The environmental impact of later Mesolithic cultures: the creation of moorland landscape in England and Wales''. Edinburgh University Press. * Simmons, I.G. 1996. ''Changing the Face of the Earth: Culture, Environment, History''. Oxford: Blackwell. * Simmons I.G. 1993. ''Environmental History. A concise introduction''. Oxford: Blackwell. * Simmons, I.G. 1993. ''Interpreting nature : cultural constructions of the environment.'' London: Routledge. * Simmons I.G. 1991. ''Earth, air and water : resources and environment in the late 20th century''. London: Edward Arnold. * Simmons I.G. 1982. ''Biogeographical processes''. London : Allen & Unwin. * Simmons I.G., M. Tooley (eds.) 1981. ''The Environment in British Prehistory''. Duckworth. * Simmons I.G. 1979. ''Biogeography: natural & cultural''. London: Edward Arnold * Simmons I.G. 1975. ''Rural recreation in the industrial world''. London: Edward Arnold, * Simmons I.G. 1974, 1981. ''The ecology of natural resources''. London: Edward Arnold. * Simmons I.G. and C. Simmons (eds.) 1974. ''Resource Systems''. London: Macmillan Education. *References
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