ABOUT THE EXPERT:

My name is Azmal Hossan, a Bangladeshi-origin Ph.D. student of Sociology and a National Research Trainee of Interdisciplinary Training, Education, and Research in Food-Energy-Water Systems (InTERFEWS) at Colorado State University (CSU). I am an Affiliated Researcher at the Center for Environmental Justice at CSU and a former fellow at Agents of Change in Environmental Justice at Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University. I am also a member of a Community of Practice Program titled Building Resilient Communities at South Central Climate Adaptation Science Center. My research interests are human dimensions of climate change, climate change adaptation, global climate justice, food-energy-water nexus, environmental justice with a special focus on water justice, and science communication. For my Ph.D. dissertation project, I am conducting participatory action research on how a nature-based solution to groundwater depletion is generating water injustice among indigenous farmers in Bangladesh. Along with my Ph.D. project, I have also been working with the Great Plains Tribal Water Alliance, a consortium organization of the North Central Climate Adaptation Science Center, as a contract researcher to lead a project called Tribal Climate Change Adaptation Water Needs in South Dakota. My research works were published and accepted in prestigious peer-reviewed journals and magazines like Urban Climate, PLOS Global Public Health, Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, Environmental Research Letter, Anthroposphere: The Oxford Climate Review, Environmental Health News, Himel Southasian, etc. I talked about my research in different prestigious podcasts like Agents of Change in Environmental Justice, and Future Cities. I was interviewed and featured by Forbes Magazine, the CSU Office of Engagement and Extension, the National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center, etc.

CONTACT:

Contact Azmal Hossan at Experts@diversegreen.org.