Dr. Khaled Misbahuzzaman

Dr. Khaled Misbahuzzaman is a professor at the Institute of Forestry and Environmental Sciences, Chittagong University, Bangladesh. He received his BSc (Hons.) degree in forestry from the same institute and later pursued postgraduate studies in natural resource planning and management from the Asian Institute of Technology in Thailand. He earned his PhD in forest restoration ecology from Edinburgh University, United Kingdom, and carried out postdoctoral research in forest-based livelihood analysis at Copenhagen University, Denmark, and in ethnoecology and ethnoforestry at Pennsylvania State University, United States. As a fellow at the RCC in 2014, he conducted research on sustainable forest landscape and community livelihood development in the degraded landscapes of the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh. Currently, as an RCC Alumni Fellow, he is conducting research on the impact of industrialization on the coastal ecosystems of Bangladesh. Dr. Misbahuzzaman has conducted extensive research on the coastal and hill forest ecosystems of Bangladesh. Additionally, he has provided consultancy services to various organizations, including UNDP, FAO, WB, GIZ, and ICIMOD. He has published over 55 research papers.

Publications:

• with Nirmol Kumar Halder, Andrew Merchant, Khaled Misbahuzzaman, Sven Wagner, and Sharif A. Mukul. “Why Are Some Trees More Vulnerable during Catastrophic Cyclone Events in the Sundarbans Mangrove Forest of Bangladesh?” Forest Ecology and Management 490 (2021): 119117. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2021.119117.
• with Matieu Henry, Zaheer Iqbal, Kristofer Johnson, et al. “A Multi-Purpose National Forest Inventory in Bangladesh: Design, Operationalization, and Key Results.” Forest Ecosystems 8, no. 12 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40663-021-00284-1.
• “Traditional Farming in the Mountainous Region of Bangladesh and Its Modifications.” Journal of Mountain Science 13, no. 8 (2016): 1489–1502. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11629-015-3541-7.
• Biswas, Shekhar R., and Misbahuzzaman, Khaled. “Tree Species Diversity and Regeneration Traits of the Dominant Species in a Dipterocarp Forest in Bangladesh: Implications for Conservation.” The International Journal of Biodiversity Science and Management 4, no. 2 (2008): 81–91. https://doi.org/10.3843/Biodiv.4.2:2.
• “Problems and Prospects of the Hilly Watersheds in Bangladesh: Priorities for Their Conservation." In Proceedings of the International Conference on Sustainable Sloping Lands and Watershed Management: Linking Research to Strengthen Upland Policies and Practices, edited by L. Gebbie, A. Glendinning, R. Lefroy-Braun, and M. Victor, 409–415. Vientiane: National Agriculture and Forestry Research Institute, 2007.
• with Mohammad J. Alam. “Ecological Restoration of Rainforest Through Aided Natural Regeneration in the Denuded Hills of Sitakunda, Chittagong, Bangladesh.” International Journal of Agriculture and Biology 8, no. 6 (2006): 778–82.