Landscapes and Landforms of the Horn of Africa

Prof. Paolo Billi has been working in the University of Florence and the University of Ferrara in Italy and closed his academic career at the International Platform for Dryland Research and Education of the University of Tottori in Japan. Prof. Billi’s main research topics include Fluvial Geomorphology, Sediment Transport and Sediment Yield. He carried out his research activities on rivers in Italy and in the Horn of Africa. He is also editor of the Springer volume on Landscape and Landforms of Ethiopia.

• Climate variability in the Horn of Africa eastern countries.- Geology and geomorphological landscapes of Eritrea.- Geomorphology of Afar.- Geomorphology of Eritrean river systems.- Pleistocene landscape variability recorded in the Homo-bearing Dandero Basin (Eritrea).- Landscape and landforms of the Samoti plain, Eritrean Danakil.- A review of the forest landscape evolution in Eritrea throughout the last century.- Landscape Change, Land Degradation, and Sustainable Land Management in the Central Highlands of Eritrea.- Land degradation in Eritrea and Djibouti.- Landscape and landforms of northern Somalia.- Inselberg landscape of the Bur Area in southern Somalia.- Fluvial landscape of the Daban basin, northern Somalia.- River hydromorphology and flood hazard in Somalia.- Use of repeat photography to monitor landscape changes and development in Somalia.. Index.