A5024054362- Disaster Management and Resilience
- Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
- Urban Planning and Governance
- Urbanization and City Planning
- Urban and Rural Development Challenges
- Child Nutrition and Water Access
- Disaster Response and Management
- earthquake and tectonic studies
- Livestock and Poultry Management
- COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts
- Infrastructure Resilience and Vulnerability Analysis
- Urban Agriculture and Sustainability
- Climate Change and Health Impacts
- Flood Risk Assessment and Management
- Regional resilience and development
- Water Governance and Infrastructure
- Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research
- Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics
- Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development
- Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- European Politics and Security
- Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation
- Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research
- Post-Soviet Geopolitical Dynamics
University of Reading
2024
Durham University
2018-2023
The COVID-19 pandemic is an evolving urban crisis. This research paper assesses impacts of the lockdown on food security and associated coping mechanisms in two small cities Bangladesh (Mongla Noapara) during March to May 2020. Due restrictions prolonged lockdown, residents (in particular low-income groups) had limited access livelihood opportunities experienced significant or complete loss income. affected both quantity quality consumed. Coping strategies reported include curtailing...
Drawing from deep longitudinal and ethnographic work, this article interrogates a set of key relationships between bodies, gender infrastructure in the context understanding cities such as Bharatpur Dhangadhi Nepal well Delhi, India. This seeks to make two contributions. First, utilizing feminist political geography approaches, we examine bodies infrastructure, referring how social material work body helps build, develop maintain through gendered infrastructures everyday. We show...
The COVID-19 pandemic has forced a re-examination of our societies and in particular urban health. We argue that health needs to address three inter-related challenge areas - the unequal impacts climate change, changing patterns urbanization, role local government across multiple spatial scales: from individual, households neighbourhoods, cities, hinterlands. Urban calls for nimble institutions provide range responses while adapting crisis situations, which operate beyond any one scale....
There is growing scholarly attention to secondary and intermediary cities as their relevance for global urban development increasingly recognised. We call academics, scholars, policymakers practitioners situate debates on these critically with the notion of "overlooked cities" understand how knowledge from such produced, circulated negotiated in research practice. This commentary aims foreground value, urgency disruptive agency individual collective vis-à-vis historical contemporary pave way...
This paper presents a mixed method, participatory exploration of liveability as stocktaking assessment with projections for urban vitality in cities, particularly LMIC, small cities. The takes its case study research conducted 2019 and 2020 Mongla Noapara, south west Bangladesh. illustrates firstly, the possibilities concept to produce nuanced, granular understandings how cities such Noapara function are experienced by residents: residents negotiate social processes, power relations, access...
This paper investigates empirically how the international aid community (IAC)—donors and practitioners—considers implements disaster resilience in a specific country setting, Nepal, throughout rest of world. A key finding is that there ambivalence about concept has become discourse. On global level, IAC utilises discourse cautiously positive manner as bridging concept. national it being used to influence Government well serving an operational tool donors. The mythical resilient urban...
In response to narratives of the mass movement people triggered by climate change, a number "managed retreat" models have been proposed as policy options, especially for densely populated urban areas in Global South. Reviewing case study from Mongla, secondary city southwestern Bangladesh, we argue that "crisis narrative" unhelpfully informs current discourses "climate migration", and oversimplify complex realities, creating risk makers design managed retreat interventions are poorly...
This commentary considers how SHAPE (Social-Sciences Humanities & the Arts for People and Economy) disciplines contribute to interdisciplinarity, inclusiveness international cooperation in work address challenges health wellbeing arising from crises inform strategies crisis preparation, response recovery. It reviews examples of growing concerns about global we face, given increasing scale frequency due geopolitical conflicts climate change. In spring 2023, British Academy, aided by...
Purpose The purpose of the paper is to challenge and address limitations traditional system knowledge production that embedded in disaster climate change research studies, studies general. It argues processes conforms colonialist thinking or west-inspired approaches. Such a often results omission crucial information due lack participation, inclusion diversity production. Design/methodology/approach proposes practices recommendations decolonise provides brief literature review on concepts...
The discipline of geography struggles to engage with urban futures on terms that are meaningful the world's majority. This paper reflects need open up empirically grounded dialogue aspirations and their complex connections perceptions possibility temporality. Drawing research carried out in two medium‐sized cities overlooked by (Bharatpur, Nepal; Zarqa, Jordan), this speaks back contemporary discourse surrounding life futurity. These projects explore located within people's everyday attempts...
Global discussions of risk in the disaster reduction literature do not necessarily reflect range as understood by residents urban South. This intra-urban comparison from Bharatpur, Nepal, where Gorkha earthquake struck 2015, shows how two different wards perceive risks related to themselves, their families and environment. The continuum perceived includes events such administrative change, well everyday concerns poor quality infrastructure provision economic insecurity. By contrasting views...
Urban planning guidelines and land use plans exist in Nepal, the difficulties lie implementation. Specifically, who must follow law which parts of city urban be implemented. This is being actively negotiated between newly elected local government officials residents rural areas city. Pulse essay presents an incremental logic from perspective as a practice aftermath administratively created urbanization, municipalization decentralization efforts. While Nepal situated 'out sight' global...
Overwhelmingly, the Polish response to 24 February 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine has been based on moral imperative ‘It is right thing do’. Within three months, Poland was hosting 3.3 million Ukrainian refugees. This equivalent 8.7% Poland’s population 38 million. The numbers are difficult grasp. I have identified four specificities in response. Firstly, a collective intergenerational trauma and fear that Russia may not stop at Ukraine. Secondly, attitude state towards refugees generally...