Mozaharul Alam
Research Fellow, BCAS

Have working experiences with multidisciplinary team of expert in the field of climate change, environment, natural resource management and GIS. Have working experiences of use of General Circulation Model (GCM) and MIKE11 (hydrodynamics model) outputs of which have been used for GIS modelling to predict present and future level of inundation due to climate change and sea level rise. Have working experience of use of COMAP and IPCC methodology for assessing greenhouse gas emission from energy, agriculture and forestry sectors with their potential mitigation options.

Involved in a number of studies where different models were used for vulnerability assessment, assessment of greenhouse gas emission and mitigating GHG from agriculture and forestry sector. Noteworthy studies were “Bangladesh Climate Change Country Study under the US Climate Change Studies Programme”, “Assessment of Vulnerability of Coastal Areas to Climate Change and Sea Level Rise; A Pilot Study in Bangladesh” and “Asia Least-Cost Greenhouse Gas Abatement Strategy (ALGAS) study, Bangladesh”.

Major Publication

• Diffusion Potential of Renewable Energy Technology for Sustainable Development of Bangladesh: Bangladesh Experiences, Mozaharul Alam, Atiq Rahman and Muhammed Eusuf. In Energy for Sustainable Development, Special Issue on Bangladesh, Volume VII, No. 2, June 2003.

• Flood Vulnerability of Dhaka City and Its Management, Saleemul Huq and Mozaharul Alam. In The Future of Disaster Risk: Building Safer Cities, World Bank, pp 137-155.

• State of Environment Bangladesh 2001 A. A. Rahman, S. Huq, A. Reddy, M. Alam and S. A. Kabir (Eds.), United Nations Environment Programme, Regional Resource Centre for Asia and the Pacific, Bangkok, Thailand, 2001.

• Overview of Major Environmental Development and Trends, Mozaharul Alam and Sughra Arasta Kabir. In State of Environment Bangladesh 2001, A. A. Rahman, S. Huq, A. Reddy, M. Alam and S. A. Kabir (Eds.). United Nations Environment Programme, Regional Resource Centre for Asia and the Pacific, Bangkok, Thailand, 2001 pp 9-23.

• Land Degradation, Mozaharul Alam. In State of Environment Bangladesh 2001, A. A. Rahman, S. Huq, A. Reddy, M. Alam and S. A. Kabir (Eds.). United Nations Environment Programme, Regional Resource Centre for Asia and the Pacific, Bangkok, Thailand, 2001 pp 25-40.

• Water Pollution and Scarcity, Mozaharul Alam. In State of Environment Bangladesh 2001, A. A. Rahman, S. Huq, A. Reddy, M. Alam and S. A. Kabir (Eds.). United Nations Environment Programme, Regional Resource Centre for Asia and the Pacific, Bangkok, Thailand, 2001 pp 41-60.

• Features of Dhaka City and Its Vulnerability to Flooding. Contributing author of a chapter 1 in The 1998 Flood: Impact on Environment of Dhaka City, Nishat, A., Reazuddin, M., Amin, R., and Khan, A. R., (eds.) Department of Environment and IUCN, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2000.

• Characteristic of 1998 Flood. Contributing author of a chapter 2 in The 1998 Flood: Impact on Environment of Dhaka City, Nishat, A., Reazuddin, M., Amin, R., and Khan, A. R., (eds.) Department of Environment and IUCN, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2000.

• Chapter One: Bangladesh, Mozaharul Alam, Atiq Rahman, Nasimul Haque and Sughra Arasta Kabir, In Confronting Climate Change: Economic Priorities and Climate Protection in Developing Nations, B Biagini (ed), A Climate Trust Project, National Environmental Trust, Washington DC, 2000.

• Development of Climate  Scenarios With General Circulation  Models, Ahsan  Uddin  Ahmed and Mozaharul Alam. In Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Change for Bangladesh,  S. Huq, Z. Karim, M. Asaduzzaman and F. Mahtab (Eds.), Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, 1999. pp 13-20.

• Water Resources Vulnerability to Climate Change with Special References to Inundation, Mozaharul Alam et al., In Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Change in Bangladesh, S.  Huq, Z. Karim, M. Asaduzzaman and F. Mahtab (Eds.). Kluwer Academic Publishers, the Netherlands, 1999. pp 21-38.

• Adaptation to Climate Change in Bangladesh: Future Ahead, Ahmed, A.U., Alam, M. and Rahman, A. A. In Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Change in Bangladesh, S. Huq, Z. Karim, M. Asaduzzaman and F. Mahtab (Eds.), Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, 1999. Pp. 125-143.

• Bangladesh Least Cost Greenhouse Gas Emission Abatement Strategy. Contributing author. Published by the Asian Development Bank, Manila, 1998.

• Coastal Zones and Oceans. Contributing author of a chapter (Chapter 3, Volume 2). In Human Choices and Climate Change, S. Rayner and L. Malone (Eds.), Battelle Inc., Washington D.C., 1998.

• Adaptive Management in Human Systems: A Synthesis, Rahman, A.A., Huq, S., Ahmed, A.U. and Alam, M. A monograph of Climate Action Network- South Asia, 1998. Monograph Series 98-01.

• Vulnerability of Bangladesh to Climate Change. Contributing author of chapter 3, In Global Climate Change: Bangladesh Episode. M. Asaduzzaman, M. Reazuddin and Ahsan Uddin Ahmed (Eds.). Department of Environment, Ministry of Environment and Forest and Government of Bangladesh, June 1997.

• Vulnerability and Adaptation Assessments for Bangladesh; Ahmed, A.U., Huq, S., Karim, Z., Asaduzzaman, M., Rahman, A. A., Alam, M., Ali, Y. and Choudhury, R.A.. In Viilnerability and Adaptation to Climate Change, J.B. Smith, S. Huq, S. Lenhart, L.J. Mata, I. Nemesova and S. Toure (Eds.). Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, June 1996.