Dr. Mehebub Sahana : IAGR Conference 2024

  Mehebub Sahana is a cultural and environmental geographer with an interest in analysing land-use changes with special respect to spaces, politics, and the governance of the living and materialistic world. Conceptually, his work focuses on landscape alterations in the post-colonial era and its consequences on sustainability issues in developing countries. His present research interests include social-environmental interface, socio-ecological resilience and systems thinking; complexity thinking and systems analysis; geohazards; landscape ecology; multi hazard risk assessment; land cover change; rural-urban conversion and the socio-political implications of land-use dynamics. He is currently working as a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, & Lecturer in Geographical Information Science in the department of Geography at the School of Environment, Education & Development, The University of Manchester, He Join the University of Manchester as a post-doctoral research associate in September 2019. UK. Previously, he was employed as a Lecturer (2018-2019) at Indira Gandhi Conservation Monitoring Centre (IGCMC), WWF-India, New Delhi. He was a GIS Research Assistant (2013-2016) in the DIGITAL ATLAS Project (DST funded Major Research Project) at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. He did his PhD from the Department of Geography, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India. He has contributed more than 50 scientific research papers in international journals on issues pertaining to land-use changes and environmental degradation and their links with climate change induced vulnerabilities.He is a regular contributor to various media outlets like Cafe Dissensus, Third-pole and the Quint.