Md Younus, PhD (Adelaide University, Australia), MPhil (Waikato, NZ), BSc and MSc (first class second in Geography, Dhaka University), Visiting Research Fellow, the department of Geography, Environment and Population, Adelaide University.
He has thirty two years professional experience, includes research, teaching, policy analysis, grant/doctoral thesis and opinion survey evaluation and advocacy in the Asia Pacific Region. Younus has editorial involvement with dozens of international high ranking journals.
He has published two books (one from Springer) on climate change vulnerability and adaptation; and 23 articles/papers in refereed journals and proceedings. His publications have been cited in academic literature across the World. He taught several courses on environment (
Environmental Studies: Climate Change and Human Adaptation, Environmental Decision Making Tools, Research Project Design and Management, Cities as Human Environments) in Flinders University, Australia; and he also delivered special lectures in Dhaka University, Adelaide University along with other Universities/Institutions/Groups in the USA, UK, Norway, Finland and Australia. Dr Younus has evaluated ANU Doctoral thesis, NOAA’s grant application, and many articles for international refereed journals as a referee.Younus is an Associate Editor / Assigned Editor of the Journal of Environmental Assessment Policy and Management, http://www.worldscientific.com/page/jeapm/editorial-board; he is also an Editor of two Journals: Cogent Environmental Science https://www.cogentoa.com/journal/environmental-science and Cogent Social Science https://www.cogentoa.com/journal/social-sciences. He is also an assigned Editor / editorial board member of Sustainability, http://www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability/editors, Climate, Hydrology, Water, Environment. Advisory Board Member, Sci, MDPI Open access journal; http://www.mdpi.com/journal/sci/editors ; Editorial Board Member, Springer Nature Applied Sciences; editorial Board Member, Progress in Disaster Science, Elsevier
He was assigned as a team member with various international research activities, such as: International Water Management Institute, BUP, ADB, WMO, Global Water Partnership, and the University of Waikato. He has presented papers in various international seminars in the USA, Norway, Finland, Australia, Bangladesh and the UK. Younus worked with Professors Drs Nick Harvey, Q K Ahmad, Sajjadur Rasheed, Munir Morad, Martin Williams, and Richard Warrick. He was a Scientific Reviewer of IPCC Fourth (2007) and Fifth (2014) assessment reports on adaptation. Dr Younus is a Board Member of Australia New Zealand Society for Ecological Economics (ANZSEE) since 2007. He is a member / life member of 19 International Academic and Development Societies along with the Association of American Geographers, Institute of Australian Geographers, the Royal Geographical Society – Institute of British Geographers (RGS-IBG), Regional Studies Association (UK), International Society for Ecological Economics (ISEE), Bangladesh Geographical Society, BNGA, the Royal Geographical Society of South Australia, the Royal Society of South Australia, Field Geology Club of South Australia, The Australian Sociological Association and Bangla Academy. He is a Fellow of Royal Geographical Society-Institute of British Geographers. He is a Councillor of the Royal Geographical Society of South Australia, and was acting President / Vice President of the Bangladesh Australia Society of South Australia (BASSA) Inc. Currently, Younus is Founding President of the Bangladesh Australia Hub Inc. (BAH), a think-tank based in South Australia where many Professors and academics across the World have been working as resource persons of the BAH.
Email:
md.younus@adelaide.edu.au
younusmaf@yahoo.com
Tel:
61 (0) 425358973
61 (0) 480281977
Website link:
https://www.adelaide.edu.au/directory/md.younus
https://researchers.adelaide.edu.au/profile/md.younus