Md. Ashik-Ur-Rahman
Assistant Professor

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Md Ashik Ur Rahman is currently on study leave to pursue his PhD. He is a Flagship Doctoral Research Fellow in the Anthropology and Environmental Policy program, at the University of Maine, USA. He attended Khulna University in Bangladesh and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in environmental science. He received the HM Queen’s Scholarship from the Thai government and earned a master’s degree in Natural resources management at the Asian Institute of Technology in Thailand. Mr. Ashik studied the techniques coastal people of Bangladesh employ to deal with the adverse effects of soil salinity on their food security for his master’s thesis. Mr. Ashik joined as a lecturer in Environmental Science Discipline in 2019. He has a background in the natural sciences and has done extensive work with coastal communities, which has piqued his interest in the anthropological study of coastal people’s livelihoods, social-ecological systems, and responses to the effects of climate change. He believes this research is urgent since the coastal region of Bangladesh is particularly susceptible to the adverse effects of climate change.

MSc in Natural Resources Management

Graduated: 2018; Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand

Awarded with Fulbright Scholarship (HM Queens Scholarship)

                                                                                                     

BSc in Environmental Science

Graduated: 2015; Khulna University, Bangladesh

With distinction and top rank in the class 

 

Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC)

Passing year: 2009, Science Group

Jessore Cantonment College, Jessore

 

Secondary School Certificate (SSC)

Passing year: 2007, Science Group

Police Line Secondary School, Jessore

Natural Resources Management,  Social-Ecological Systems (SES), Geospatial Techniques, Water and Food security

Current Research Project/Collaboration

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No Research Project Available

2024 Gil Kushner Student Travel Award of $750 by the Society for Applied Anthropology’s 84th Annual Meeting in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
2022 Peter Ellis Travel Grant of $ 1300 by the AEP program to conduct a field study on Barriers and Opportunities for Climate Change Adaptation among Smallholders, Orono, USA
2022 Flagship Doctoral Research Fellowship, 2022-2024, Department of Anthropology, University of Maine, USA
2016 HM Queens Scholarship by Thailand Government for Master program 2016-2017, NRM, AIT, Thailand
2015 Khan Jahan Ali Hall Merit Scholarship, Khulna University, Bangladesh
2011 Khulna University Merit Scholarship, 2011-2015, Khulna University, Bangladesh

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Ashik Ur Rahman, M., Zulfiqar, F., Rahman, Md. S., Himanshu, S. K., Shrestha, R. P., & Datta, A. (2024). Exploring small-holder farmers’ adaptation strategies under soil salinity impacts in coastal areas of Bangladesh. Environmental Development, 101123. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envdev.2024.101123 


Ahasan, S. N., & Ashik Ur Rahman, M. (2024). Unveiling Relationships: Enhancing Sustainability of Golpata (Nipa Palm) Through Socio‐Ecological Systems Management in the Sundarbans Mangrove Forest. Environmental Quality Management, 34(2), e22345. https://doi.org/10.1002/tqem.22345


Ashik Ur Rahman, M., and Christine M. Beitl. (2024). The Role of Collective Action and Identity in the Preservation of Irrigation Access in Dacope, Bangladesh. Sustainability, 16(15), 6279. https://doi.org/10.3390/su16156279


Ashik-Ur-Rahman, M., & Gain, A. K. (2023). Water Security in the Coastal Region of Bangladesh. In Climate Risks to Water Security (pp. 147-170). Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-16648-8_7


Gain, A. K., Rahman, M. M., Sadik, M. S., Adnan, M. S. G., Ahmad, S., Ahsan, S. M. M., Ashik-Ur-Rahman, M., Balke, T., Datta, D. K., Dewan, C., Huq, N., Khan, M. S. A., Large, A., Mallick, B., Mohibbullah, M., Mondal, M. S., Narayan, S., Rabbani, G., Rahman, R., … van Loon-Steensma, J. M. (2022). Overcoming challenges for implementing nature-based solutions in deltaic environments: Insights from the Ganges-Brahmaputra delta in Bangladesh. Environmental Research Letters, 17(6), 64052. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac740a


Nipun, M. W. H., Ashik-Ur-Rahman, M., Rikta, S. Y., Parven, A., & Pal, I. (2022). Rooftop rainwater harvesting for sustainable water usage in residential buildings for climate resilient city building: Case study of Rajshahi, Bangladesh. International Journal of Disaster Resilience in the Built Environment, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJDRBE-08-2021-0089


Ashik-Ur-Rahman, M., Waheduzzaman, M., & Waresul Hassan Nipun, M. (2021). Optimized municipal solid waste transportation with landfill requirement in a coastal city of Bangladesh. Environmental Quality Management, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1002/tqem.21804


Pal, I., Parven, A., Ashik-Ur-Rahman, M., Ullah, M. S., & Rahman, K. F. (2021) An Analysis of Small-Scale Fisheries Management Status by Focusing on Degrading Fisheries Resources in the Sundarbans. In Sundarbans Mangrove Systems (pp. 189-213). CRC Press. URL: https://doi.org/10.1201/9781003083573 


Swarnokar, S. C., Ashik-Ur-Rahman, M., & Mou, S. I. (2020). Conflict of Resource Use Among Different Livelihood Group in Coastal Villages of South-Western Bengal Delta, Bangladesh. International Journal of Sustainable Development and Planning, 15(7), pp.1089-1099. URL: http://www.iieta.org/journals/ijsdp/paper/10.18280/ijsdp.150713 


Gain, A. K., Ashik-Ur-Rahman, M., & Benson, D. (2019). Exploring institutional structures for tidal river management in the Ganges-Brahmaputra Delta in Bangladesh. DIE ERDE–Journal of the Geographical Society of Berlin, 150(3), 184-195. URL: https://www.die-erde.org/index.php/die-erde/article/view/434 


Gain, A. K., Ashik-Ur-Rahman, M., & Vafeidis, A. (2019). Exploring human-nature interaction on the coastal floodplain in the Ganges-Brahmaputra delta through the lens of Ostrom’s social-ecological systems framework. Environmental Research Communications, 1(5), 051003. URL: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2515-7620/ab2407


Shaimy, O. I., Asik-Ur-Rahman, M., Rahman, M. M. S., Sarkar, T., & Ferdous, Z. (2017). Assessment of Physico-chemical Characteristics and Functionality of Existing Potable Water Sources in Disaster Prone Area of South-West Coastal Region in Bangladesh. Annual Research & Review in Biology, 1-16. URL: http://www.journalarrb.com/index.php/ARRB/article/view/26226 


Ghosh, P. K. and Ashik-Ur-Rahman, M. (2017) Evaluation of monsoon drinking water quality of the Mongla River of southwestern coastal Bangladesh using water quality index. Bangladesh J. Environ. Sci., 32: 41-46 (ISSN 1561-9206)


Ghosh, P. K., Sultana, K.,  Bhattacharjee, A. K.,  Yasmin, F.,  and Ashik-Ur-Rahman, M.  (2015) Quality of monsoon surface and groundwater in Phultala Upazila of the south-western coastal Bangladesh-a policy implication for water quality management. 5th International Conference on Water and Flood Management (ICWFM-2015), Institute of Water and Flood Management (IWFM), Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), 6-8March, 2015, Dhaka, Bangladesh, pp. 357-366 (ISBN: 978-984-33-8801-8).


Salequzzaman, M.,  Khalequzzaman, M.M. and Ashik-Ur-Rahman, M. (2015) Impact of Recent Oil Spills on the Sunderbans and its Possible Remedies. Engineering Day, 2015, Engineering Institute of Khulna, 7th May, Khulna, Bangladesh, pp. 1-11


Ashik-Ur-Rahman,  M. (2015) Environment-friendly brick kiln to protect uncontrolled air pollution: A study on the technology of brick kiln. In World Environment Day 2015, Ministry of Environment and Forest, the People’s Republic of Bangladesh. (in Bangla)