M. Shah Alam Khan, Ph.D.

Professor

Institute of Water and Flood Management,

Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology,

Dhaka 1000, Bangladesh.

Email:      msalamkhan@iwfm.buet.ac.bd,   msakhan.buet@gmail.com

Website:  http://msalamkhan.buet.ac.bd

Phone:     +88 02 966 5601 (office)

Fax:         +88 02 966 5601

EDUCATION

• Ph.D., Coastal Engineering, Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA, 2002.
  Thesis: Scaling Relations from Scale Model Experiments on Equilibrium Accretionary Beach Profiles.  full thesis >>
  Supervisor: Professor J. Richard Weggel.

• M.S., Civil Environmental Engineering, University of Rhode Island, USA, 1991.
  Thesis: Analysis of Groundwater Depletion and Recharge in Northwestern Bangladesh.
  Supervisor: Professor Daniel W. Urish.

• B.Sc. Engineering (Civil), Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 1988.

RECENT RESEARCH PROJECTS

UKRI GCRF Living Deltas Hub, jointly with Newcastle University, UK, and 39 partner organizations in 13 countries, funded by UK Research and Innovation, Mar 2019 - Feb 2024.

CORE Bangladesh: COmmunity REsilience through rapid prototyping of flood proofing technologies, jointly with IHE Delft and others, funded by Dutch Research Council, Urbanizing Deltas of the World Program (NWO-UDW II), Aug 2016 - Jul 2021.

Living Polders: dynamic polder management for sustainable livelihoods, applied to Bangladesh, jointly with Utrecht University and others, funded by NWO-UDW II, Aug 2016 - Jul 2021.

DeltaCap: Capacity Building for the Implementation of Bangladesh Delta Plan 2100, jointly with IHE-Delft, Wageningen University and others, funded by Nuffic-NICHE, Netherlands, Sep 2016 - April 2021.

REACH: Improving Water Security for the Poor, jointly with Oxford University, UK, and other regional and international partners, funded by UK Aid, 2015 - 2022.

REMATCH: Building Resilience to Multi-source Flooding in Southeast/South Asia through a Technology-informed Community-based Approach, jointly with Newcastle University; Northumbria University, UK; An Giang University, Vietnam, funded by GCRF-NERC, UK, Nov 2016 - Jul 2017.

Adaptive Delta Management: Development, Acculturation, and Dissemination in Bangladesh and Indonesia, jointly with TU Delft, and other regional and international partners, funded by NWO-UDW I, Jan 2015 - Jun 2019.

Shifting Grounds: Institutional Transformation, Enhancing Knowledge and Capacity to Manage Groundwater Security in Peri-urban Gangetic Delta Systems, jointly with TU Delft, and other regional and international partners, funded by NWO-UDW I, Jan 2015 - Jun 2019.

Dynamic Deltas: Communities and Institutions for Flood Resilience: Enhancing Knowledge and Capacity to Manage Flood Risk in the Bangladeshi and Dutch Deltas, jointly with Wageningen University and IHE Delft, funded by NWO-WOTRO, Sep 2011 - May 2017.

CoCooN CCMCC: Climate Policy, Conflicts and Cooperation in Peri-Urban South Asia: Towards Resilient and Water Secure Communities, jointly with Wageningen University, and other regional and international partners, funded by NWO and DFID UK, Feb 2014 - Jan 2019.

Water Security in Peri-urban South Asia: Adapting to Climate Change and Urbanization, jointly with three South Asian partner institutions, funded by International Development Research Centre, Canada, Jul 2010 - Jan 2014.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Journal Articles

Kulsum, U., Timmermans, J., Haasnoot, M., Khan, M.S.A., and Thissen, W., Why uncertainty in community livelihood adaptation is important for adaptive delta management: a case study in polders of Southwest Bangladesh, Environmental Science and Policy, 2021.

Mutahara, M., Warner, J.F., and Khan, M.S.A., Multi-stakeholder participation for sustainable delta management: a challenge of the socio-technical transformation in the management practices in Bangladesh, International Journal of Sustainable Development & World Ecology, 2020.

Kulsum, U., Timmermans, J., Khan, M.S.A., and Thissen, W., A conceptual model-based approach to explore community livelihood adaptation under uncertainty for adaptive delta management, International Journal of Sustainable Development & World Ecology, 2020.

Mutahara, M., Warner, J., and Khan, M.S.A., Analyzing the coexistence of conflict and cooperation in a regional delta management system: Tidal River Management (TRM) in the Bangladesh delta, International Journal of Environmental Policy and Governance, 2019.

Roth, D., Khan, M.S.A., Jahan, I., Rahman, R., Narain, V., Singh, A.K., Priya, M., Sen, S., Shrestha, A., Yakami, S., Climates of urbanization: local experiences of water security, conflict and cooperation in peri-urban South-Asia, Climate Policy, 2018.

Zevenbergen, C., Khan, M.S.A., Alphen, J.v., Scheltinga, C.T.v.S., and Veerbeek, W., Adaptive delta management: a comparison between the Netherlands and Bangladesh Delta Program, International Journal of River Basin Management (online), 2018.

Ahmed, F., Khan, M.S.A., Warner, J., Moors, E., and Scheltinga, C.T.v.S., Integrated adaptation tipping points (IATPs) for urban flood resilience, Environment and Urbanization (online), 2018.

Ahmed, F., Moors, E., Khan, M.S.A., Warner, J., and Scheltinga, C.T.v.S., Tipping points in adaptation to urban flooding under climate change and urban growth: The case of the Dhaka megacity, Land Use Policy, 2018.

Mutahara, M., Warner, J.F., Wals, A.E.J., Khan, M.S.A., and Wester, P., Social learning for adaptive delta management: Tidal River Management in the Bangladesh Delta. International Journal of Water resource Development (online), 2017.

Staverena, M.F.V., Warner, J.F., and Khan, M.S.A., Bringing in the tides: From closing down to opening up delta polders via Tidal River Management in the southwest delta of Bangladesh, Water Policy, IWA Publishing, 2017.

Mutahara, M., Haque, A., Khan, M.S.A., Warner, J.F., and Wester, P., Development of a sustainable livelihood security model for storm-surge hazard in the coastal areas of Bangladesh, Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2016.

Ahmed, F., Gersonius, B., Veerbeek, W., Khan, M.S.A., and Wester, P., The role of extreme events in reaching adaptation tipping points: a case study of flood risk management in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Journal of Water and Climate Change, IWA Publishing, 2015.

Nowreen, S., Jalal, M.R., and Khan, M.S.A., Historical analysis of rationalizing South West coastal polders of Bangladesh, Water Policy, IWA Publishing, 2014.

Narain, V., Khan, M.S.A., Sada, R., Singh, S., and Prakash, A., Urbanization, peri-urban water (in)security and human well-being: a perspective from four South Asian cities, Water International, International Water Resources Association and Routledge, 2013.

Amir, M.S.I.I., Khan, M.S.A., Khan, M.M.K., Rasul, M.G., and Akram, F., Tidal river sediment management - a case study in Southwestern Bangladesh, International Journal of Civil Science and Engineering, World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology, 2013.

Mondal, M.S., Jalal, M.R., Khan, M.S.A., Kumar, U., Rahman, R., and Huq, H., Hydro-meteorological trends in southwest coastal Bangladesh: perspectives of climate change and human interventions, American Journal of Climate Change, Scientific Research, www.scirp.org/journal/ajcc, 2013.

Okubo, K., Khan, M.S.A., and Hassan, M.Q., Hydrological processes of adsorption, sedimentation, and infiltration into the lake bed during the 2004 urban flood in Dhaka city, Bangladesh, Environmental Earth Sciences, Springer Berlin/Heidelberg, Germany, 2010.

Shah, M.A.R. and Khan, M.S.A., Cost minimisation for multiple-source water supply systems, Water Management, Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers, UK, 2009.

Khan, M.S.A., Disaster preparedness for sustainable development in Bangladesh, Disaster Prevention and Management, UK, 2008.

Khan, M.S.A., Stormwater flooding in Dhaka city: causes and management, Journal of Hydrology and Meteorology, Nepal, 2006.

Khan, M.S.A., Rahman, R., and Chowdhury, J.U., Stormwater quality in selected catchments of Dhaka city, Bangladesh Journal of Water Resource Research, Water Resources Engineering Department, BUET, Dhaka, 2005.

Khan, M.S.A., Cross-shore net sediment transport change to equilibrium: a wave tank study, Journal of Civil Engineering, The Institution of Engineers, Bangladesh, 2003.

Khan, M.S.A., Wave reflection and beach profile evolution under sinusoidal and cnoidal laboratory waves, Journal of Civil Engineering, The Institution of Engineers, Bangladesh, 2003.

Book Chapters

Amir, M.S.I.I. and Khan, M.S.A., An innovative technique of tidal river sediment management to solve the waterlogging problem in southwestern Bangladesh, Chapter 10, In Coastal Management : Global Challenges and Innovations, R.R. Krishnamurthy, M.P. Jonathan, S. Srinivasalu, and B. Glaeser, eds., Academic Press, U.K., 2019.

Dawson, R., Khan, M.S.A., Gornitz, V., Lemos, M.F., Atkinson, L., Pullen, J., and Osorio, J.C., Urban areas in coastal zones, Chapter 9, In Climate Change and Cities: Second Assessment Report of the Urban Climate Change Research Network (ARC3.2), C. Rosenzweig, W. Solecki, P. Romero-Lankao, S. Mehrotra, S. Dhakal, and S.A. Ibrahim, eds., Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK and New York, NY, USA, 2018.

Khan, M.S.A., Mondal, M.S., Rahman, R., Huq, H., Dutta, D.K., Kumar, U., and Jalal, M.R., Urban burden on peri-urban areas: shared use of a river in a climate change vulnerable coastal city, In Water Security in Peri-urban South Asia: Adapting to Climate Change and Urbanization, V. Narain and A. Prakash, eds., Oxford University Press, 2016.

Dasgupta, P., Ghosh, P.K., Rahman, R., and Khan, M.S.A., Mapping gains and losses from the Mayur ecosystem, In Water Security in Peri-urban South Asia: Adapting to Climate Change and Urbanization, V. Narain and A. Prakash, eds., Oxford University Press, 2016.

Salehin, M., Khan, M.S.A., Prakash, A., and Goodrich, C.G., Opportunities for trans-boundary water sharing in the Ganges, the Brahmaputra and the Meghna basins, In India Infrastructure Report 2011, pp. 29-43, Oxford University Press, 2011.

Khan, M.S.A., Rahman, R., Rashid, H., and Rashid, S., Socio-economic effects of tsunami on Bangladesh, In Wind Storm and Storm Surge Mitigation, CDRM Monograph Series, No. 4, N. Uddin, ed., pp. 140-152, American Society of Civil Engineers, 2010.

Hoque, M.M., Abdullah, and Khan, M.S.A., Storm surge flooding in Chittagong city and associated risk, In Destructive Water: Water-Caused Natural Disasters, their Abatement and Control, G.H. Leavesley, H.F. Lins, F. Nobilis, R.S. Parker, V.R. Schneider, and F.H.M. van de Ven, eds., Publication no. 239, pp. 115-122, International Association of Hydrological Sciences, 1997.

Books

Khan, M.S.A., Mondal, M.S., Jalal, M.R., and Kumar, U., Vulnerability and Adaptive Capacity : A Tale of Two Cities, A H Development Publishing House, 2019.

Shah, M.A.R. and Khan, M.S.A., Optimization Model for Urban Water Supply System in Bangladesh: Tool for Ensuring Effective Decision-Making, LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2012.

Kumar, U. and Khan, M.S.A., Wastewater Reuse in Agriculture: Opportunity and Adverse Impact of Wastewater Reuse in Peri-Urban Areas of Rajshahi, Bangladesh, LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2012.