Paul Cloke

Paul J. Cloke FAcSS is a Welsh author and professor of geography. He is known as the founding editor of the international and multidisciplinary academic Journal of Rural Studies, published by Elsevier Science. As of 2012, he is a faculty member of the Department of Geography at the University of Exeter.

Educational background

Cloke attended the University of Southampton, graduating with a Bachelor's degree in geography. He went on to Wye College (University of London), where he earned his Ph.D, followed by a transfer to the University of Bristol, where he earned his Doctor of Science. His academic area of expertise focuses on human geography.

Professional background

Following his graduation from Bristol, Cloke joined the staff of St David's University College, Lampeter (University of Wales). While at Lampeter, he was part of the Lampeter Geography School. He has also served as a professor of geography at the University of Bristol. As of 2012, he is a staff member with the University of Exeter and Adjunct Professor at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. He is known as the founding editor of the Journal of Rural Studies, published by Elsevier.

Honors and awards

• 2002: Academician of the Academy of Learned Societies for the Social Sciences
• 2005: Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand
• 2009: Fellow of the British Academy

Published works

• Cloke, Paul J. An Introduction to Rural Settlement Planning, Taylor & Francis, Inc., 1983. ISBN 978-0416738001
• Cloke, Paul J. Rural Resource Management, St. Martin's Press, 1985. ISBN 978-0312696023
• Cloke, Paul J. The Rural State?: Limits to Planning in Rural Society, Oxford University Press, 1990. ISBN 978-0198232872
• Cloke, Paul J. Policies and Plans for Rural People: An International Perspective, Taylor & Francis, Inc., 1990. ISBN 978-0047110177
• Cloke, Paul J. Approaching Human Geography, Guilford Publications, Inc., 1991. ISBN 978-0898624908
• Cloke, Paul J. Policy and Change in Thatcher's Britain: Policy and Planning and Critical Theory, Elsevier Science & Technology Books, 1992. ISBN 978-0080406473
• Cloke, Paul J. Rural Land-Use Planning in Developed Nations, Cengage Learning, 1992. ISBN 978-0047110252
• Cloke, Paul J. Writing The Rural, SAGE Publications, 1994. ISBN 978-1853961977
• Cloke, Paul J. Introducing Human Geographies, London: Hodder Education Publishers (subsidiary of Hachette Publishing, 1999. ISBN 978-0340691939
• Cloke, Paul J. Principles of Radiological Physics, Elsevier Science & Technology Books, 2003. ISBN 978-0443070730
• Cloke, Paul J. Rural Homelessness: Issues, Experiences and Policy Responses, Policy Press, 2002. ISBN 978-1861342843
• Cloke, Paul J. Practising Human Geography, SAGE Publications, 2004. ISBN 978-1848604889
• Cloke, Paul J. Spaces of Geographical Thought: Deconstructing Human Geography's Binaries, SAGE Publications, 2005. ISBN 978-0761947318
• Cloke, Paul J. The Handbook of Rural Studies, SAGE Publications, 2006. ISBN 978-0761973324
• Cloke, Paul J. Swept-Up Lives?: Re-envisioning the Homeless City, Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. ISBN 978-1405153874
• Cloke, Paul J. Globalizing Responsibility: The Political Rationalities of Ethical Consumption, Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. ISBN 978-1405145589