Khandakar Hasan Mahmud
Assistant Professor
Geography & Environment
Jahangirnagar University
Bangladesh
Biography
Khandakar Hasan Mahmud (Assistant Professor, Department of Geography and Environment, Jahangirnagar University, Savar, Dhaka, Bangladesh), born in 1983 in Dhaka. He has completed his B.Sc. (honors) and M.Sc. in Geography and Environment from Jahangirnagar University. Currently studying in the Department of Environment and Geography, University of Manitoba, Canada for Masters of Environment. Mr. Mahmud started his career as a GIS and Remote Sensing Analyst in Prakaushali Sangsad Ltd. Then he joined as a Lecturer of GIS in the Department of Environmental Science and Resource Management, Mawlana Bhasani Science and Technology University, Tangail. In 2009 he has joined in the Department of Geography and Environment in Jahangirnagar University, Dhaka. Mr. Mahmud has published ‘Ogni Geographic Atlas’ using the latest GIS and Cartographic techniques. He was one of the key members of the Banglapedia Cartographic Team. Currently, Mr. Mahmud engaged with the preparation of the National Atlas of Bangladesh as chief cartographer. He has a number of international and national research papers and joined lots of workshops and conferences. Mr. Mahmud's book "Introductory GIS" is widely used in different academic departments as a manual of learning GIS. Mr. Mahmud's broad research interests are : (a) Historical Geography; (b) Society and Culture; (c) Disaster Vulnerability and Community Resilience; and (d) Cartography and GIS. Mr. Mahmud supervised a good number of Masters Thesis and other undergraduate and post-graduate researches.
Research Interest
Hazard and Disaster Vulnerability and Resilience, Crtography and Historical GIS, Society and Culture
Publications
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Mahmud, K. H., 2013, The Critical Role of Human Population in Sustainable Human Development of a Community, Faculty of Social Science, Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh, Part 2, Vol. XXXIV/2010, ISSN 1682-7422.
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Iqbal, M. J., Sobnam, M., and Mahmud, K. H., 2013, Role of Risk Mapping in Hazard Risk Assessment of a Coastal Community, Jahangirnagar Bishwavidyalay Bhugol O Paribesh Samikkhan (A Journal of Geography), Department of Geography and Environment, Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh, Vol. 31 / 2012. ISSN 1027-8567.
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Mahmud, K. H., and Hafsa, B., 2013, Environmental Risk Assessment in Haor Environment of Bangladesh, Journal of the People's University of Bangladesh (A Research Journal for Multidisciplinary Studies), ISSN 1812-4747.
