Dr. Md. Nadiruzzaman

Research Group Climate Change and Security
Institute of Geography
Universität Hamburg

Dr. Md. Nadiruzzaman is currently working as a Research Fellow under CLICCS – B3 work package at Hamburg University. He also affiliates at the International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD) (Bangladesh), Humanitarian Advisory Group (Australia) and Flowminders (Sweden). Prior to this job, he was an Assistant Professor of Environmental Management at the Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB). By training Nadir is a human geographer with an MA and PhD from Durham University, where he problematised traditional knowledge framing of cyclone, and demonstrated how marginality in everyday life constrains peoples' resilience to withstand extreme events. Since obtaining his PhD, Nadir has been involved with several large research projects across the continent and expanded his works on migration and big data, energy and poverty, climate finance, ecosystem services and disaster, urban climate change, livelihood security and so on. He looked through the lenses of political ecology and strived to understand politics of contesting knowledge framing. He held two post-doctoral fellowships, one at the University of Exeter, supervised by Prof. Neil Adger (IPCC AR5 Coordinating Lead Author, Chapter 13: Human Security) and, the other, in a science-to-action collaborative project between ICCCAD, UNU-EHS and MRF (http://www.ehs.unu.edu/article/read/gibika), hosted at ICCCAD and supervised by Dr. Saleemul Huq (IPCC AR5 Coordinating Lead Author, Chapter 14: Adaptation Needs and Options).

Dr. Nadir has expanded his work in development sector and tried to bridge the gap between theory and development practices through his work. He worked as a Director – Learning, Research and Knowledge Management in a USAID funded food for peace (FFP) programme. He supported the Ministry of Finance of the Government of Bangladesh in climate sensitive budget coding for twenty ministries. He provided consultancy services to World Vision, DFID, UNDP, CRS, Save the Children, Hunger for Humanity, Humanitarian Advisory Group, Oxford Policy Management and several other organisations. He has also extensively published in several apex journals such as Nature Climate Change, Global Environmental Change, Climate Change and Geoforum. Nadir’s academic works could be viewed at https:// uni-hamburg.academia.edu/MdNadiruzzaman.

PEER REVIEWED JOURNALS ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS

1. Nadiruzzaman, M.; Shewly, H.J.; Esha, A.A. Dhaka Sitting on a Plastic Bomb: Issues and Concerns around Waste Governance, Water Quality, and Public Health. Earth 2022, 3, 18-30. DOI: 10.3390/earth3010002

2. Nadiruzzaman, M, Rahman, M, Pal, U, Croxton, S, Rashid, MB, Bahadur, A, Huq, S. 2021. Impact of Climate Change on Cotton Production in Bangladesh. Sustainability, 13, 2, 574. DOI: 10.3390/su13020574

3. Nadiruzzaman, M, Rahman R. 2021. Ecosystem Services: Meanings, Politics, Developments, and Way Forward. In: Leal Filho W., Azul AM, Brandli L, Lange Salvia A, Wall T. (eds) Life on Land. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Springer. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-95981-8_22

4. Nath, S, van Laerhoven, F, Driessen, P, Nadiruzzaman, M. 2020. Capital, rules, or conflict? Factors affecting livelihood-strategies, infrastructure-resilience, and livelihood-vulnerability in the polders of Bangladesh. Sustainability Science 15 (4): 1169–1183. DOI: 10.1007/s11625-020-00818-6

5. Shewly, HJ and Nadiruzzaman, M. 2018. Invisible journeys across India-Bangladesh borders and bubbles of illicit networks: stories of cross-border rural-urban migration and economic linkages, in F Chiodelli, T Hall and R Hudson edited, Corrupt Places: The Illicit in the Governance and Development of Cities and Regions, Routledge: Regions and Cities book series. pp 37-53.

6. Shevach, S, Sutton, K, Flint, J and Nadiruzzaman, M. 2018. ‘When the Rubber Hits the Road: Local Leadership in the First 100 Days of Rohingya Response’, Humanitarian Exchange, the Humanitarian Practice Network at Overseas Development Institution, London, UK, 73: 19-22.

7. Lu, X., Wrathall, D., Sundsøy, P.R., Nadiruzzaman, M., Wetter, E., Iqbal, A., Qureshi, T., Tatem, A., Canright, G., Engø-Monsen, K., and Bengtsson, L. 2016. Detecting climate adaptation with mobile network data in Bangladesh: anomalies in communication, mobility and consumption patterns during cyclone Mahasen, Climate Change. DOI: 10.1007/s10584-016-1753-7

8. Lu, X., Wrathall, D., Sundsøy, P.R., Nadiruzzaman, M., Wetter, E., Iqbal, A., Qureshi, T., Tatem, A., Canright, G., Engø-Monsen, K., and Bengtsson, L. 2016. Unveiling Hidden Migration and Mobility Patterns in Climate Stressed Regions: A Longitudinal Study of Six Million Anonymous Mobile Phone Users in Bangladesh, Global Environmental Change, 38: 1-7. DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2016.02.002

9. Nadiruzzaman, M. and Wrathall, D. 2015. Participatory Exclusion – Cyclone Sidr and Its Aftermath, Geoforum, 64: 196-204. DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2015.06.026

10. Tanner, T. Lewis, D., Wrathall, D., Bronen, R., Cradock-Henry, N., Huq, S., Lawless, C., Nawrotzki, R.., Prasad, V., Rahman, M.A., Alaniz, R., King, K., McNamara, K., Nadiruzzaman, M., Henry-Shepard, S. and Thomalla, F. 2015. Livelihood Resilience in the Face of Climate Change, Nature Climate Change, vol I: 23-26. DOI:10.1038/nclimate2431

11. Nadiruzzaman, M and Paul, BK. 2013. Post-Sidr Public Housing Assistance in Bangladesh: A Case Study, Environmental Hazards, 12 (2): 166-179. DOI: 10.1080/17477891.2012.759523

12. Paul, BK and Nadiruzzaman, M. 2013. Religious Interpretations for the Causes of the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami, Asian Profile, 41 (1): 67-77.

PUBLISHED REPORTS, MAGAZINE AND NEWS ARTICLES
1.     Nadiruzzaman, M. 2019. Dhaka Sitting on a Plastic Bomb, Bulletin of the Netherlands Society for Tropical Medicine and International Health (MTb), 53 (3): 7-8.

2.     Tanner, T, Bisht, H, Quevedo, A, Malik, M, Nadiruzzaman M, and Biswas S. 2019. Enabling access to the Green Climate Fund: Sharing country lessons from South Asia, Action on Climate Today (ACT) Learning Paper, Oxford Policy Management, Oxford, UK.

3.     Nadiruzzaman, M, Rahman, M, Pal, U, Hossain, MF, Uddin, MF, and Islam, MK. 2019. Climate-resilient agriculture in Bangladesh: A value chain analysis of cotton, Action on Climate Today (ACT) Learning Paper, Oxford Policy Management, Oxford, UK.

4.     Pal, U and Nadiruzzaman, M. 2018. ‘Bangladesh adopts climate-resilient cotton farming to fix trade deficit’, Down to Earth, October 18, 2018.

5.     Shevach, S and Nadiruzzaman, M. 2017. ‘When the Rubber Hits the Road: Local Leadership in the First 100 Days of Rohingya Response’, Humanitarian Horizons Practice Paper Series, Humanitarian Advisory Group, Melbourne, Australia.

6.     Nadiruzzaman, M. 2017. ‘Do we learn from the past?’, Dhaka Tribune, November 01, 2017.

7.     Stott, C and Nadiruzzaman, M. 2014. Disaster Risk Reduction in Dhaka City: From urban landscape analysis to opportunities for DRR integration. World Vision International, Asia Pacific Team, Bangkok, Thailand.

8.     Nadiruzzaman, M. 2012. ‘Surviving the Storm: Rebuilding After Cyclone Sidr in Bangladesh’, Hazard Risk Resilience, IHRR Magazine, Durham University, 1 (1): 26-29.

SELECTED CONSULTANCY EXPERIENCES
·       November 2017 – March 2019 (215 days), Country Lead (Bangladesh) – Action on Climate Today (ACT), a UKAID funded regional programme implemented by Oxford Policy Management Limited (OPML) in partnership with the International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD), with particular focus on Climate Change, agriculture and climate financing.

·       November 2017 (5 days), Local Leadership in the First 100 Days of Rohingya Response, led by Nirapad and Humanitarian Advisory Group, funded by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), Australia.

·       01 Aug – 30 Sept 2017 (10 Days), Climate Change Expert in the ‘Inclusion of Climate Dimension in Ministry Budget Framework’, led by the Ministry of Finance, Government of Bangladesh, with close coordination of UNDP.

·       05 Feb – 04 May 2017 (30 Days), Learning, Research and Knowledge Management Advisor in Nobo Jatra Program, a USAID food security program.

·       06 June 2016 (30 days), Lead Consultant, Baseline study using SenseMaker for MUKTI – II, a Catholic Relief Services (CRS) funded disaster resilience building project at Monpura Island, Bhola, Bangladesh.

·       08 – 18 Jun 2014, Climate Change Specialist in National Urban Poverty Reduction Plan for DFID Bangladesh. I worked as a member of a team of consultants to design an urban development programme for DFID Bangladesh. I specific role was to help designing the climate change component of it.

·       May 2014, Lead Consultant, Impact of Cyclone Mahasen on Children and their Education, Save the Children Australia, Melbourne.

·       Jul ’13 – Feb ’14, Lead Consultant, Study on the DRR-CCA Landscape of Dhaka, Asia Pacific Community Resilience Project World Vision Asia Pacific Region Office, Bangkok. Our report has been published by the World Vision and is a highly viewed item in the academia.edu.

·       May – August 2013, International Theme Leader – Disaster Risk Management, Action Research for Climate Change Adaptation in Bangladesh (ARCAB). www.arcab.org. I have led a campaign of Child Inclusive Climate Smart Disaster Risk Management (CICSDRM) and presented that in the 4th Divisional Conference on Community Based Adaptation on 22nd August 2013.

OTHER PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES AND AFFILIATIONS
·       July 2018 – June 2019, Adjunct Faculty – Logistics, Governance and Risk Financing, Department of Disaster and Human Security Management, Bangladesh University of Professionals (BUP).

·       January 2018 – September 2019, Head – Self Assessment Committee, Department of Environmental Management, Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB). This is part of the central quality assurance cell, mandated to enhance over academic environment in the department, in compliance with the higher education policy of the University Grant Commission, Bangladesh.

·       September 2017 – ongoing, National Consultant, Humanitarian Advisory Group, Melbourne, Australia (https://humanitarianadvisorygroup.org/dr-md-nadiruzzaman/)

·       March 2016 – ongoing, Affiliate – Flowminder Foundation, Stockholm, Sweden (http://www.flowminder.org/people/mohammed-nadiruzzaman).

·       January 2013 – January 2015, Honorary Fellow (Research Collaborator) at the Institute of Hazard, Risk and Resilience (IHRR), Durham University, UK.

·       03-18 October 2013, Visiting Research Scientist, United Nations University – Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS), Bonn, Germany.

RESEARCH GRANTS
·       2019-21: Course Lead on Climate Change and Health, Transformative Competency-Based Public Health Education for Professional Employability in Bangladesh’s Health Sector (TRANS4M-PH), Erasmus+ Programme, European Commission, allocation for IUB – 140, 186 Euros.

·       2017 – 18: ESPA Capacity development Grant to design a module on ‘Ecosystem Services and Disaster’, with Dr. Janet Fisher, University of Edinburgh, £3000.

·       2017-18: Co-Principal Investigation, Energy on the Move: longitudinal perspectives on energy transitions among marginal populations (a comparative study), ESRC-DFID Development Frontiers Research Fund, £204,658.

·       2017: Co-awardee, ESRC-IAA funding Scheme (to disseminate findings of Mobile Data, Environmental Extremes and Population Movements (MDEEP), £7,750.

·       2014-16: Principal Investigator, ESPA-Deltas Capacity Development Fellowship - £100,000 (Jointly funded by DFID, ESRC and NERC, Ref.: http://www.espa.ac.uk/projects/fell-2014-106).

·       March 2013 – December 2016, Joint Principal Investigator, Mobile Data, Environmental Extremes and Population Movements (MDEEP), in collaboration with UNU-EHS, Flowminders and Telenor Group. (Ref.: http://www.icccad.net/mdeep/) Rockefeller Foundation, US$50,000; UK-ESRC, US$16,500)

·       2008-2011: Obtained the Christopher Moyes Memorial Foundation Fellowship through the IHRR to pursue a PhD (Ref: http://www.moyesfoundation.org/). (£75,000)