Biography
Mohammad Ehsanul Kabir completed his PhD at School of Environment and Science, Griffith University, Australia. Ehsan’s PhD project involves unpacking vulnerabilities of the internal migrants living in the North-West drought prone areas of Bangladesh. His thesis compares different drivers of vulnerability that are influencing individual’s decisions to migrate from their geographic origins. Ehsan earned his Master’s degree from Monash University Australia in International Development and Environmental Analysis and Bachelor’s degree in social science from Independent University Bangladesh (IUB). Ehsan also worked as a sessional teaching staff at Griffith University under the direction of his PhD supervisors. His teaching and research expertise involves global environmental challenges, human migration and inclusion of socially disadvantaged groups within various development interventions. Ehsan is currently working as an Assistant Professor (since Feb, 2012) at Dhaka School of Economics, a constituent institution of the University of Dhaka.
Recent Publications (selected)
Kabir, M. E., Serrao-Neumann, S., Davey, P., Hossain, M. and Alam, M. T. (2018) “Drivers and temporality of internal migration in the context of slow-onset hazards: Insights from rural North-West Bangladesh”. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction (IJDRR), 31: 617-626. ELSEVIER.
Kabir, M. E., Davey, P., Serrao-Neumann, S., and Hosain, M. (2018) “Seasonal drought thresholds and internal migration for adaptation: lessons from Northern Bangladesh”, In Hossians, M., Hales, R. and Sarker, T. (Eds.), Pathway Towards Sustainable Economy: Bridging the Gaps Between COP21 commitments and 2030 targets of emission control, USA: SPRINGER.
Kabir, M. E., Davey, P., Serrao-Neumann, S. (2019) “Climate change effects on people livelihoods” Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Climate Action, USA: SPRINGER. Upcoming Springer book in 2019.
Rahman, R., Kabir M. E. and Islam S. S (2018) Evaluation of Environmental Sustainability Index from the Perspective of Ecological Overshoot and Income Differences. Jatiya Kabi Kazi Nazrul Islam University Journal of Social Science. 1(1-2): 24-34. Bangladesh.
Email: cyberehsan@gmail.com