Shah Md. Atiqul Haq

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• Doctor of Philosophy
• Professor at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology

The frequency and geographic extent of floods in Bangladesh have increased over the past few decades, and sedimentation has gradually raised the beds of wetland water bodies. The present study examined how households (HH) cope with, and adapt to, the adverse effects of sedimentation in the haor wetlands under extreme weather conditions. Lubar and P...

Energy consumption plays a critical role in climate change, necessitating an understanding of the factors that shape perceptions of energy use. These perceptions significantly influence the adoption and expansion of renewable energy sources. This study conducts a comprehensive review of 45 articles to identify key factors that affect energy consump...

Introduction Experts have a well-established consensus regarding the detrimental effects of human activities on the environment, including extreme temperature events, rainfall variability, pollution, deforestation, biodiversity loss, and flood occurrences—all of which significantly stress Earth’s natural systems. This study investigates the level o...

This paper explores how people perceive about family size and environmental degradation. Many studies explain people perception to family size or environmental degradation independently. Considering both of the concepts as interrelated, how people consider the relation between family size and environmental degradation, and how their perception subs...

This paper explains how integrative knowledge-based development can contribute to economic growth and social development as an important field of research. We show how it would be useful for country-specific demands and issues, and the significance of investment in knowledge-based research and the importance of universities in the practice and adva...

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant influence on people’s life, affecting social and economic conditions, population dynamics, politics, and cultural activities. This study investigates how COVID-19 affects married people’s fertility preferences. It also analyzes the preferences of married persons in Bangladesh with and without COVID-19. Th...

This study investigates how parents’ division of labor strategies are impacted by climate change in Bangladesh. Qualitative methodologies were employed in the present study to gather and analyze data. Sunamganj, Satkhira and Natore are three climate-vulnerable districts where in-depth interviews were conducted with married men and women with only c...

Public parks and other green areas are crucial components of urban development. Urban management in emerging countries such as Bangladesh faces major challenges, especially because of the socio-environmental impacts of urbanization. Urban management initiatives in developing countries sometimes neglect crucial services for university students, such...

This study compares household heads’ perceptions of climate change with meteorological trends and explores the measures they believe can mitigate the negative impacts of climate change in the coastal districts of Bangladesh. Using a mixed-methods approach, data were conveniently collected from 164 household heads through semi-structured questionnai...

Floods, storms, and temperature extremes are examples of extreme weather events that have a substantial influence on a country's demographic dynamics, including migration, fertility, and mortality. Changes in population size, composition, and distribution may result from these occurrences. This study, which spans the years 1966–2018, looks at how B...

Key considerations for research into how climate change affects sexual and reproductive health and rights

The COVID-19 pandemic has had far-reaching consequences worldwide and has also led to significant changes in people’s lifestyles, resulting in an increase in social problems, such as early marriages for girls in different contexts. This study aimed to examine the relationship between the COVID-19 pandemic and early marriage among girls. Our analysi...

COVID-19 had repercussions in many fields, including education. Although society worldwide was affected, students and the academic sector were hit hardest. Distance learning was used by almost all governments globally during the pandemic to keep education going when schools were closed. Lockdown, maintaining social distance, online classes, financi...

Extreme weather events linked to climate change are expected to increase in frequency in the coming years, putting the entire world at danger. Parents exert a significant influence on the lives of their children and the overall function of the family unit. However, natural disasters have a significant impact on daily life and pose an immediate dang...

This research examined the influence of perceived child mortality risk on the fertility choices of married women in Bangladesh. Employing a cross-sectional survey conducted in four rural areas, categorized as either vulnerable or not vulnerable to extreme climate events, a total of 759 married women were surveyed through simple random sampling, whi...

This research focuses on understanding the complex impact of Cyclone Aila on migration decisions, particularly regarding the motivations that compel specific vulnerable populations to remain in their current locations despite severe consequences. It conducts a comparative analysis of migration choices, adaptive strategies and capacities of migrant...

Background Environmental quality significantly affects various aspects of human existence. This study employs ecological footprint as a proxy to assess the impact of environmental quality on the TFR, measured as births per woman. This study investigates the extent to which ecological footprint indicators impact on the TFR in across 31 countries bet...

The global impact of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) has spared no sector, causing significant socioeconomic, demographic, and particularly noteworthy educational repercussions. Among the areas significantly affected, the education systems worldwide have experienced profound changes, especially in countries like Bangladesh. In this context, numero...

The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly impacted various facets of human life, encompassing the economy, social interactions, and population dynamics such as mortality, fertility, and migration. Numerous countries have implemented restrictions on physical work, either by imposing lockdown measures or requiring individuals to work from home, to curb...

The link between population dynamics and climate-related severe events is complicated. Extreme weather events (EWEs), along with other factors such as socioeconomic and cultural factors, influence population dynamics, particularly changes in fertility, mortality, and migration. This study focuses solely on the fertility aspect of climate change and...

The world has already experienced many extreme weather events and the consequences of these events are severe and will become even more severe in scope and intensity. In addition to the risks and crises associated with climate change, the world has also had to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic, resulting in many deaths and socio-economic and psycholo...

Concern about environmental changes is an important, much talked about topic for debate. Do these influence the motivations to bear children? The negative effects of environmental degradation can lead to demographic redistribution especially those related to health and behaviour. Nevertheless, whether environmental issues impact future childbearing...

Climate change is a global issue that affects everyone. According to Amnesty International, nearly 370 million indigenous peoples live in more than 90 countries and account for 5% of the world’s population. Because of their close contact with the environment, they have an extensive understanding and knowledge of local climate conditions. Understand...

This study explores how people living in different areas of Bangladesh prone to extreme weather events (EWEs) in the form of floods, cyclones, or droughts perceive climate change, the impacts they suffer in the face of EWEs, and how they cope with their consequences. Qualitative data was collected through in-depth interviews with 73 respondents fro...

The haor landscape is a wetland ecosystem in northeast Bangladesh, comprising shallow depressions that undergo large changes in water inundation between the monsoon and dry seasons. Sediment is supplied to the haor from rivers originating in the adjacent Shillong Plateau, and can adversely affect these largely arable agricultural lands. The crit...

The haor landscape is a wetland ecosystem in northeast Bangladesh, comprising shallow depressions that undergo large changes in water inundation between the monsoon and dry seasons. Sediment is supplied to the haor from rivers originating in the adjacent Shillong Plateau, and can adversely affect these largely arable agricultural lands. The critica...

This study examines school and college teachers' perceptions about climate change, taking into account academic backgrounds and experiences with the impacts of climate change. The study included 95 teachers from three schools and colleges (two private and one public) in the city of Sylhet, Bangladesh. The results show that most teachers have heard...

Bangladesh is highly vulnerable to climate change. The country regularly faces challenges caused by the impact of extreme weather events (EWEs). These events affect different aspects of human life, including fertility dynamics. The present study explores how different extreme weather events influence the family structure and how fertility preferenc...

Climate change is likely to worsen the food security situation through its impact on food production, which may indirectly affect fertility behaviour. This study examines the direct and indirect effects of climate change (e.g., temperature and precipitation) via the production of major crops, as well as their short- and long-term effects on the tot...

In the context of rapid climate change, it is important to understand public perceptions of urban green spaces (UGSs), because green spaces have enormous potential as instruments for climate change adaptation and mitigation, and because the development of such spaces both requires and benefits from public support. This article attempts, through an...

In the context of rapid climate change, it is important to understand public perceptions of urban green spaces (UGSs), because green spaces have enormous potential as instruments for climate change adaptation and mitigation, and because the development of such spaces both requires and benefits from public support. This article attempts, through an...

Climate change and associated extreme climatic hazards are the most pressing issues in the world of climate emergency. It is now widely recognised that climate change research is important for education and reorienting education in the current climate emergency. In facing the adverse effects of climate change, educational institutions, particularly...

Since climate change education is an integral element in the increasingly urgent global approach to solving the problem of climate change, understanding perceptions of climate change among teachers in different academic institutions could play a significant role in how and to what extent institutions address the need to educate learners on this sub...

Climate change is a big challenge now. Currently, researchers, academics, and policymakers focus on coping with and dealing with the adverse effects of climate change. However, due to climate change impacts, it is impossible to determine the number of coping strategies, primarily when the appropriate coping and adaptation strategies depend on the s...

The Sustainable Development Goal (SDG-1) aims to “end poverty everywhere” by strengthening people’s resilience, reducing climate-related vulnerabilities and other socioeconomic shocks, and providing access to essential services, including financial inclusion. This chapter shows how financial inclusion, financial resilience, and climate change resil...

This study is concerned with the perceptions of university students in Bangladesh regarding climate change. A self-administered questionnaire survey was filed out by 650 final-year undergraduate students studying in a variety of academic disciplines at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST), Sylhet, Bangladesh. This study found that...

As Bangladesh is an agriculture-based economy, climatic changes are very likely to aggravate the food insecurity situation through effects on food production, indirectly shaping fertility behaviour. This study tries to examine the direct and indirect impact of climate change (e.g. temperature and rainfall) through major crop productions as well as...

In general, the book is extremely interesting as Capra was able to wave the concept of the network system throughout the whole of this book in a fascinating manner. The tools used to analyse complex problems are powerful particularly in exposing the structures and activities of global capitalism.

This study addresses how perception of risk of child mortality, land ownership and household type influence fertility preferences. The study focuses on four distinct villages: two vulnerable to cyclones and floods and two not usually subject to the impacts of extreme weather events (EWEs). The study uses a mixed-methods approach in collecting relev...

This study addresses how perception of risk of child mortality, land ownership and household type influence fertility preferences. The study focuses on four distinct villages: two vulnerable to cyclones and floods and two not usually subject to the impacts of extreme weather events (EWEs). The study uses a mixed-methods approach in collecting relev...

Bangladesh is highly vulnerable to climate change along with the adverse impacts of climate change. This paper aims to reveal the debates about climate change and extreme weather events. It considers Bangladesh as a case to understand the debates, the impacts of climate change on people's livelihoods. This paper used secondary sources to select and...

Bangladesh is highly vulnerable to extreme weather events. In this study, we examine whether there is an association between the types of flooding and fertility. We hypothesize that fertility may be higher for areas which are the most vulnerable to flood event and at high risk for the impacts of flood event than other areas which are less susceptib...

This study addresses the perceptions of indigenous people in Bangladesh in relation to the causes and impacts of climate change and how they use their indigenous knowledge to manage their forest resources and apply a variety of coping strategies in the face of climate change. This study selected two indigenous communities living in Lawachara Punji...

This study aims to explore how displacees and non-displacees from Cyclone Aila in 2009 cope with the adverse impacts of climate change in Bangladesh. This study also addresses how coping strategies vary between the two groups after Cyclone Aila. This study selected Satkhira and Khulna district purposively where cyclone Aila caused severe impacts. T...

This study aims to explore whether a relationship exists between extreme weather events, sexual violence, and early marriage. We selected two districts in Bangladesh that are vulnerable to extreme weather events: Sunamganj, which experiences flash flooding, and Brahmanbaria, which experiences cyclones and related floods. Survey data was collected f...

This study aims to explore whether a relationship exists between extreme weather events, land ownership, and fertility preferences. A further aim of the study was to investigate how the future education of children mediate the nexus of land-fertility. Given the aims, this study was conducted in two types of areas: one is vulnerable to extreme weath...

Interviewed by Jenn Richler (Editor Nature Climate Change) on Public Climate Change Perception.

The study attempts to uncover how people living in vulnerable areas address the relationship between the impacts of extreme weather events (floods) and fertility preference. The study selected a village, Sharat Pur from Sunamganj District, which is highly vulnerable to the adverse impacts of flooding. The study gathered information from 158 respond...

This study tried to understand the nexus between socio-cultural factors and fertility preference in a vulnerable (flood prone) area of Bangladesh. Socio-cultural factors influence age at first marriage of women and age at first birth of child. The factors also influence couples’ fertility preferences. This study used both quantitative and qualitati...

This study addresses how the perceived risk of infant/child mortality influences fertility preference in Bangladesh. For a comparative reason we included two types of study areas: one type is vulnerable to extreme weather events and the other one is not. We surveyed 759 ever-married women through stratified random sampling and did in-depth intervie...

This study aims to explore how extreme weather events are related to child marriage and sexual violence. It attempts to understand whether people living in areas vulnerable to extreme weather events consider child marriage as a coping strategy to reduce the impacts of such events, such as poverty, and as an escape from the fear of sexual violence o...

This study addresses how the perceived risk of infant/child mortality influences fertility preference in Bangladesh. For a comparative reason we included two types of study areas: one type is vulnerable to extreme weather events and the other one is not. We surveyed 759 ever-married women through stratified random sampling and did in-depth intervie...

This study investigates how socio-demographic factors influence fertility preferences in Bangladesh. It also attempts to address how the perception of the risk of child mortality, changes in landholding and types of family influence fertility preferences. To investigate these ideas, this study selected four distinct villages that experience differe...

This study explores how fertility preference is related with the risk of dying of children, changing land size and family type resulting from the impacts of extreme weather events in Bangladesh. Using both quantitative and qualitative method data was collected from 759 married women. Findings reveal that fertility preference varies with the percept...

This study tried to explore the perception of climate change by considering the socio-demographic dimensions of vulnerable populations in Bangladesh. This study included 158 respondents from an extremely flood affected area of Sylhet by using multistage sampling. This study used both quantitative and qualitative method to analyze data. Using severa...

National parks and protected areas can contribute significantly to the needs of poor people who live in and around them and depend heavily on forest resources for their subsistence. Especially for the rural poor who have limited economic options, use of national park resources are the main source for their survival, giving them direct benefits from...

Population growth and the environment is now a major discussion issue. Most cases of excessive preference for a larger family size are involved with environmental degradation in developing countries. Moreover, rural or indigenous people living in forest areas have a regular interaction with the environment. They usually depend on environmental reso...

This paper rigourolys analyses literature on tobacco smoking and provides a historical perspective of tobacco smoking and the prevalence of smoking in different parts of the world. The dangerous chemical ingredients in cigarettes and their associated health effects are indentified and rigouroulsy analysed. Later, this paper suggests a communication...

This paper explains the benefits and challenges of urban green spaces based on the critical discussion of study results from different studies in different cities. The important roles played by green spaces are social, economic, cultural and environmental aspects of sustainable development. Urban green spaces can be a comprehensive tool for long te...

. in this paper it has been tried to explore the mechanisms involved for unequal access to ecology and how this access is varied considering the stabilised situation in the economic system and how developed countries maintain their economic interests through securing the higher position in the capitalistic economic structure. And consequently count...

In the study we try to understand and compare how the married man and women in the indigenous community (Khasia people), Bangladesh perceive the relation between family size and environmental degradation. The findings of the study show that people who think their local environment such as land productivity, water level and biodiversity are declinin...

This paper rigourolys analyses literature on tobacco smoking and provides a historical perspective of tobacco smoking and the prevalence of smoking in different parts of the world. The dangerous chemical ingredients in cigarettes and their associated health effects are indentified and rigouroulsy analysed. Later, this paper suggests a communication...

Mekong River Basin is a life for many people in six south East Asian countries. The river basin is very pro-ductive and has crucial activities like: fishing, agriculture, hydroelectric power, transportation, biodiversity and so on. However, due to mismanagement, political intentions and one way interest only for development, the river basin has alr...

Now environment is an important topic in academic field. Many researches focus on the negative outcomes of nature which are being continually created by human and much attention has been paid to how the environment is protected through integrated research, movement and policy. But few studies are concentrated on population and environment and are t...