Climate Crisis in South and East Asia

Md Anwarul Abedin is a Professor and Leader of Laboratory of Environment and Sustainable Development in the Department of Soil Science, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Bangladesh. Currently he is associated with Ritsumeikan University, Osaka, Japan as Visiting Professor. He has got his PhD from Kyoto University, Japan and also did his JSPS postdoc in Kyoto University and Commonwealth postdoc in Northumbria University, UK. Dr. Abedin was awarded the esteemed “Pan Asia Risk Reduction Fellowship” offered by START, USA and carried out collaborative research among the BAU, START and Kyoto University, Japan. He has 21 years teaching and research experiences in the field of agriculture, food safety and security and environmental issues viz. water resource management, solid waste management, environmental impact assessment, community-based adaptations and resilience mapping, climate change and disaster risk reduction, land use change, community participation.

Gulsan Ara Parvin is a researcher and Instructor of Collage of Policy Science, Ritsumeikan University, Japan. She served different graduate schools and research centers of Kyoto University, Japan for about 12 years. She was an Associate Professor of Urban and Regional Planning Department of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET). She has conducted her PhD from Urban Engineering Department of the University of Tokyo. Her expertise is in Disaster Risk Reduction and Community Resilience, social capital, women empowerment and microfinance in Bangladesh. She has published about 50 research papers in different journals and books. She has research and teaching experiences in Bangladesh, Japan, Malaysia, Thailand and USA.

Nina Takashino is an Associate Professor in the College of Policy Science at Ritsumeikan University, Japan. She received her Ph.D. in Economics from Kobe University in 2007. Before joining Ritsumeikan University, she worked at Hokkaido University, the University of Tokyo, and Tohoku University. In 2018 and 2019, she spent her sabbatical as a visiting fellow at the International Gender Studies Centre at Oxford University and the Amsterdam Research Centre for Gender and Sexuality, funded by the Japanese government. Her research interests include gender and human security issues, development policy, poverty alleviation, and food policy. Her research activity is mainly devoted to analyzing people’s behavior based on the field survey using questionnaires and deriving policy implications. She has research experience in Indonesia, India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Cambodia, the Philippines, Japan, and Cameroon

Rajib Shaw is the professor in Graduate School of Media and Governance in Keio University’s Shonan Fujisawa Campus (SFC). He is also co-founder of a Delhi (India) based social entrepreneur startup Resilience Innovation Knowledge Academy (RIKA) and RIKA Institute, a not-for-profit entity of RIKA. Professor Shaw is the recipient of prestigious “Pravasi Bharatiya Samman Award (PBSA)” in 2021 for his contribution in education sector. PBSA is the highest honor conferred on overseas Indians and persons of Indian origin from the President of India. Professor Shaw is also the recipient of United Nations Sasakawa Award for Disaster Risk Reduction in 2022 for his lifetime contributions in the field of disaster risk reduction. His expertise includes community-based disaster risk management, climate change adaptation, urban risk management, and disaster and environmental education.