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CSD Research and Projects
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 CSD, with its seasoned team of researchers, students and uninterrupted support from the mother institution, is focusing on these five following areas:
- Natural resource management (water management, land use etc…)
- Renewable energy (Solar energy, innovative technology that is cost effective and efficient)
- Natural hazards-climate change adaptation (comprehensive disaster management)
- Green business
- Good governance and policy
About the Center for Sustainable Development The Center for Sustainable Development (CSD) [ formerly the Institute for Sustainable Development (ISD)] is a research center at the University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh (ULAB), created in 2006, motivated by social responsibilities, moral concerns and environmental challenges to provide present and future generations with relevant knowledge and expertise for a better future both for Bangladesh and the global world. A crucial point in time was in February, 2009 when CSD developed it 5 year Action Plan Strategy and Research Agenda. CSD’s areas of expertise and interests lie on 5 main domains; Natural Resource Management, Renewable Energy, Natural Hazards- Climate Change Adaptation, Social Business and Good Governance. Please follow this link for further details: http://www.ulab.edu.bd/CSD/csd-strategy/ CSD currently has 9 full time staff and numerous visiting professors and researchers that shared the same practical vision of sustainable development.
Glimpse of CSD’s Projects and Researches (Published/Completed)
Published Researches (5)
- Mobilizing Communities for Disaster Risk Reduction: The Case of Bangladesh, Dr.Rathana Peou, Ehsanul Kabir & Shafiqul Islam (view synopsis)
- Social Water Management among Munda people in the Sundarban by Chiara Perucca, Visting Researcher, CSD, along with Krishnapodo Munda (view synopsis)
- Baseline Survey for Child Centered Disaster Risk Reduction Project PLAN Bangladesh, Dr.Rathana Peou and Lucy Cooper (view synopsis)
- Endline survey for Child Centered Disaster Risk Reduction Project PLAN Bangladesh, Dr.Rathana Peou and Ehsanul Kabir (view synopsis)
- Increasing Access to Homestead Biogas in Tetulia – Jonathan Torn (view synopsis)
Documentaries & Exhibitions(2)
- The Threaded Resort –“ multimedia exhibition with stories of female garment workers of Bangladesh” funded by AECID and the Embassy of Spain
- Restoring Lives – “ photographic exhibition and documentary made in partnership with Solidarites to enlighten the situation of the Aila affected people; their remaining needs and challenges” funded by AFD and Alliance Francaise
Glimpse of CSD’s Projects and Researches (Ongoing)
Ongoing Researches (11)
- Social dimensions of climate-induced migration: The case of the char-islands in Bangladesh – Marie-Pierre Arseneault (view synopsis)
- Discourses on environmental migration since 1992 in Bangladesh – Alice Baillat (view synopsis)
- Exploring the pattern of Environmental migration in Bangladesh – David Mechin (view synopsis)
- CapAdapt, the CCA team (view synopsis)
- ABLE (Adaptive capacity to climate change in low-lying coastal areas: integrating Disaster Risk Reduction and Adaptation) - By the CCA Team (view synopsis)
- Policy Framework in Bangladesh regarding Climate Change – Rathana PVDH (view synopsis)
- Disaster Risk Reduction paradigm and Climate Change Adaptation paradigm - Rathana PVDH (view synopsis)
- Measuring the Social Impact of business: Case study of Kazi & Kazi Tea Estate (KKTE) Bangladesh- Md. Shafiqul Islam (view synopsis)
- Increasing access to Homestead Biogas plant – second phase (funded by: SKS, KSF & CSD) – Md. Shafiqul Islam, Rathana PVDH (RE) (view synopsis)
- Impact of Microfinance services in Bangladesh over the last 30 years – Altaf Hossain (SB) (view synopsis)
Ongoing Projects (3) - Liberation and Empowerment: Attaining Dignity and Rights for sex workers and their children in Bangladesh (LEADR Project) with Action Aid Bangladesh (funded by: AECID)- Ehsanul Kabir Rathana PVDH
- Gender Equity & Access to Education (funded by: VERC) – Ehsanul Kabir, Rathana PVDH
- Homestead Biogas plant – second phase (funded by: SKS, KKTE & CSD) – Md. Shafiqul Islam, Rathana PVDH
Seminars and conferences in preparation (4)
- With First Climate (India) on The potentiality of Climate Change Mitigation; Water and Carbon foot prints (view synopsis)
- With Action Aid and AECID on Human Trafficking and Sex Workers in South Asia
- With McGill, CISDL, University of Oxford (Refugee Study Center) and IDDRI on Conceptualizing Environmentally-Induced Migration within Sustainable Development Framework (view synopsis)
- With SEI, IDDRI on Maladaptation
Different projects are currently being proposed under Climate Change Adaptation, Social Business and Sustainable Development for Higher Education. Trainings are regularly being conducted on Research Methods as well as Project Cycle Management and Organic Farming respectively by experts in the field.
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