Environmental Studies

Integrating Environment and Development for facilitating Sustainable Development is one of the primary aims of Environmental Studies Group. Key objectives of Environmental Studies Group are to increase understanding and scientific knowledge of integrated environmental assessment, risk assessment, environmental resources and livelihoods, policy advocacy, and environment and development discourse. The group works at global, regional, national, sub-regional, municipal and local level on different aspects of environment and development. The group is providing inputs on regular basis to Global Environmental Outlook and State of Environment Reporting, as BCAS is one of the South Asian Collaborating Centres of United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). The group closely works with Department of Environment, Ministry of Environment and Forest (MoEF) of the Government of Bangladesh. Over the last decade and half the group has produced a number of reports, and published a number of books on environmental issues and concerns of Bangladesh.

  Completed Project: 

• Training Non-formal School Teachers on Environmental Education

• Environmental Education for Non-formal School Teachers on Elephant Conservation

• Elephant Fair

• Technical Assistance to JMBA for Implementation of EMAP

• Socio-Environment Study of Meghna Dhonagada Project

• Dhaka City Management Reform Pilot Project

• National Environment Management Action Plan

• Measuring Environmental Quality and Environmental Quality Indices

• Waste Management Education Curriculum for Children

• Asian Elephant Conservation Education.

• Environmental Awareness at Grassroots (ADAB-SEMP)

• Managing Pollution from Small-scale Industries in Bangladesh

• Secretariat of Roots & Shoots

• Country Coordination Asia Youth Environment Network (AYEN)

• KAR

• Asia Pro-Eco

Ongoing Project: 

• Management of Land-based Coastal Pollution in Bangladesh

• Global Environment Out Look (GEO)-4

• Dhaka City State of Environment Report (SOE)

• Situation Analysis of Capacity Building Needs for IWRM in South Asia