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British geographer

Andrew Thomas Blowers OBE FRSA is a British geographer and environmentalist and Emeritus Professor of the Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences at the Open University.

Biography

Blowers attended Colchester Royal Grammar School and won an Open Exhibition to read Geography at Durham University. After periods teaching at Newcastle Polytechnic and Kingston Polytechnic he joined the Open University, where he eventually became Dean of Social Sciences.

His academic work has focused on environmental protection, particularly nuclear waste management. In 1993 he campaigned against the opening of the Thermal Oxide Reprocessing Plant at Sellafield.

Honours

He received an OBE for services to environmental protection in the 2000 Birthday Honours. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 2004.

References

  1. "Professor Andrew Blowers". Open University. Retrieved 14 February 2019.
  2. ^ "Who we are". Blackwater Against New Nuclear Group. Retrieved 14 February 2019.
  3. "Members – NWAA". Nuclear Waste Advisory Associates. Retrieved 14 February 2019.
  4. "Fuel for the fiery waste debate: Britain will be a dump for radioactive material". The Independent. 10 May 1993. Archived from the original on 15 February 2019. Retrieved 14 February 2019.
  5. "Birthday Honours OBEs: A - K". BBC News. Retrieved 14 February 2019.


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