Tahmina Yasmin PhD

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Contact details

Email: t.yasmin@bham.ac.uk
Twitter: @drtahminayasmin

Address: School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Dr Tahmina is an excellent interdisciplinary researcher situated at the intersection of society and environment, sustainable transition, policy and governance. She is currently involved with the Centre for Environmental Research and Justice (CERJ) and the Birmingham Institute for Sustainability and Climate Action (BISCA). In various research roles within Birmingham, previously she worked as a fellow for the Leverhulme Trust, NERC and the Institute for Global Innovation.

Teaching

Dr Tahmina teaches into third year and Masters’ module includes Environmental Geopolitics and Governance; Urban Environments in the Global South; Geopolitics and Globalization.

Research

My research interest includes human-environment interactions and
processes, development interventions, urban geography,
environmental and water resource governance, complexity and
resilience thinking, stakeholder engagement and power dynamics,
emergency management, disaster risk reduction (DRR) and
climate change adaptation (CCA) and resilience capacity with a
focus on global south development.

Other activities

Dr Tahmina has more than five years’ experience in working as a frontline development worker actively engaged in Disaster Management and emergency capacity building initiatives at various international humanitarian organisations (e.g., Oxfam, Red Cross) alongside fulfilling various research-intensive roles. She has ongoing collaboration in Bangladesh and India (academic and NGOs) and has provided her opportunities to work as an external consultant in relevant policy and research projects. She worked in several PhD and Masters’ supervision teams in the UK, Australia, Bangladesh and India.

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Yasmin, T, Clark, J, Sambrook-Smith, G, Daham, A, Nicholas, A & Gasparotto, A 2024, 'Towards sustainable governance of freshwater sand: A resource regime approach', Earth System Governance, vol. 22, 100228. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.esg.2024.100228

Yasmin, T, Farrelly, MA, Rogers, BC, Krause, S & Lynch, I 2023, 'A tale of two cities: evidence from the Global South on established versus emerging cities' approaches to adaptive and sustainable water governance', Ecology and Society, vol. 28, no. 1, 38. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-13599-280138

Yasmin, T, Khamis, K, Ross, A, Sen, S, Sharma, A, Sen, D, Sen, S, Buytaert, W & Hannah, DM 2023, 'Brief communication: Inclusiveness in designing an early warning system for flood resilience', Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, vol. 23, no. 2, pp. 667-674. https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-23-667-2023

Gupta, R, Hasan, MM, Islam, SZ, Yasmin, T, Uddin, J & Shahzad, U (ed.) 2023, 'Evaluating the Brexit and COVID-19’s influence on the UK economy: A data analysis', PLoS ONE, vol. 18, no. 6, e0287342. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0287342

Yasmin, T, Dhesi, S, Kuznetsova, I, Cooper, R, Krause, S & Lynch, I 2022, 'A system approach to water, sanitation, and hygiene resilience and sustainability in refugee communities', International Journal of Water Resources Development. https://doi.org/10.1080/07900627.2022.2131362

Yasmin, T, Farrelly, MA, Rogers, BC, Krause, S & Lynch, I 2022, 'Hybrid and Multi-Level Adaptive Governance for Sustainable Urban Transformations in the Global South: A Secondary City Case Study', Frontiers in Water, vol. 4, 756273. https://doi.org/10.3389/frwa.2022.756273

Yasmin, T, Farrelly, MA & Rogers, BC 2019, 'Adaptive governance: a catalyst for advancing sustainable urban transformation in the global South', International Journal of Water Resources Development, vol. 36, no. 5.

Yasmin, T, Farrelly, MA & Rogers, BC 2018, 'Evolution of water governance in Bangladesh: An urban perspective', World Development, vol. 109, no. September 2018.

Barron, NJ, Kuller, M, Yasmin, T, Castonguay, AC, Copa, V, Duncan-Horner, E, Gimelli, FM, Jamali, B, Nielsen, JS, Ng, K, Novalia, W, Shen, PF, Conn, RJ, Brown, RR & Deletic, A 2017, 'Towards water sensitive cities in Asia: An interdisciplinary journey.', Water Science and Technology, vol. 76, no. 5, pp. 1150. https://doi.org/10.2166/wst.2017.287

Conference contribution

Yasmin, T 2017, Changing paradigm of water governance trends in Dhaka. in Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Sustainable Development for Young Professionals, Dhaka.

Letter

Daham, A, Sambrook-Smith, G, Clark, J & Yasmin, T 2024, 'Sand mining across the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna catchment; assessment of activity and implications for sediment delivery', Environmental Research Letters. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ad6016

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