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Khandaker Jafor Ahmed

Khandaker Jafor Ahmed is a Bangladeshi doctoral student in the Department of Geography, Environment and Population at the University of Adelaide (UoA), Australia. Jafor's research interest falls within the broader field of population and environment, with a special focus on human fertility. Given the academic qualification (Bachelor and Master's degree in Sociology) and research experience (as a Research Associate in the Centre for Climate Change and Environmental Research at BRAC University, Bangladesh), his research seeks to explain the social impacts of climate change and natural disasters.

Inhabitants of Gabura Union plead for resilience, not relief, against devastating cyclones

by Khandaker Jafor Ahmed - Oct 9, 2023

In the heart of the picturesque Sundarbans, where the land kisses the sea, lies the Gabura Union, a place of unparalleled beauty and paradoxical vulnerability. Nestled between the lush mangrove forest and the swirling currents of...
Uneven Geographical Distribution in Fertility, Child Mortality, and Contraceptive Use in Bangladesh: The Role of Integrating Disaster Risk Reduction and Family Planning Programs

by Khandaker Jafor Ahmed - Jun 20, 2023

Bangladesh stands out as one of the most vulnerable countries to climate change and catastrophic weather occurrences on a global scale. Droughts, heavy rains, floods, cyclones, and sea-level rise are becoming more common and severe, posing...
Bangladesh is an adaptation capital of the world

by Khandaker Jafor Ahmed - Oct 5, 2019

The 2019 UN Climate Action Summit was held at United Nations Headquarters in New York on 23 September 2019. The summit aimed to advance climate action for reducing greenhouse gas emissions to prevent the mean global...
Women and child-friendly disaster risk reduction in Bangladesh

by Khandaker Jafor Ahmed - Apr 4, 2019

Climate change induces adverse effects on populations’ dynamics where disaster risk reduction is a crucial issue. Biophysical, demographic, institutional, economic, and socio-cultural factors determine populations’ vulnerability to climate change when there is an unequal distribution of...
Climatic paradox of Bangladesh: climate change versus adaptation

by Khandaker Jafor Ahmed - Mar 23, 2019

Bangladesh is one of the most climate vulnerable countries in the world. According to the Climate Risk Index (2018), Bangladesh is in sixth position having experienced 187 climate-related extreme weather events (hereafter “EWEs”) between 1997 and...

Khandaker Jafor Ahmed

Inhabitants of Gabura Union plead for resilience, not relief, against devastating cyclones

Uneven Geographical Distribution in Fertility, Child Mortality, and Contraceptive Use in Bangladesh: The Role of Integrating Disaster Risk Reduction and Family Planning Programs

Bangladesh is an adaptation capital of the world

Women and child-friendly disaster risk reduction in Bangladesh

Climatic paradox of Bangladesh: climate change versus adaptation

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