Rabiul Islam Institute of Australian Geographers & The New Zealand Geographical Society Conference 2014

Rabiul Islam

Biographical sketch of Rabiul Islam Rabiul Islam, a PhD researcher in the Department of Environment and Geography, Macquarie University, Australia. He completed his M.Sc. degree in Disaster Management from the Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand and both Bachelor and Masters in Social Welfare from the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. He has been teaching more than 13 years in the Department of Social Work, University of Rajshahi, Bangladesh. His research interests are—community based disaster risk reduction, climate change, disaster, gender and development. His ongoing research project is ‘social capital, disaster resilience and recovery’. He conducted several research projects and published journal articles. He worked on DRR projects of India, Philippines, Myanmar and Thailand with Asian Disaster Preparedness Center in Bangkok, and education and development projects with World Bank. He is the head of ‘Environment, Ecology and Climate Justice’ of Development Synergy Institute—a center for research, Dhaka, Bangladesh. He has presented several papers in various national, international and regional conferences. Biographical sketch of Dr Greg Walkerden Greg Walkerden lectures in Environmental Management at Macquarie University, Sydney. His research interests include water cycle management, catchment management, and adaptive management. Much of his research has a design focus: designing policies, strategies, systems, and practices to support shifts to more sustainable forms of life. From 1997 to 2003 he was the Environmental Systems Manager at Wyong Council, responsible for ecosystem management and organisational change. He has also taught innovation and change management in the Faculty of the Built Environment, at the University of New South Wales. His work has won a number of awards, including awards for catchment management, stormwater management and capacity building.