Samiya A Selim, PhD

Dr. Samiya Selim , Director and Professor, Center for Sustainable Development, University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh. She has studied and worked in the UK the past 12 years in the field of environment conservation, climate change and sustainable development. Her specialization is in the areas of ecosystem based management, sustainable livelihoods, socio-ecological systems, climate change adaptation and resilience, ecosystem services, and science-policy interface.

Program Affiliation
Center for Sustainable Development (CSD)
Education

2011-2015 PhD in Biological Sciences, University Of Sheffield, England.

2009-2011 MRes Biodiversity And Conservation, University Of Leeds, England.

2004–2005 M.A Sustainable Development, University Of Leeds, England.

1996–1999 B.Sc. Double Major – Environmental Science And Economics, Elizabethtown, College, USA.

Areas of Interest

Social-ecological systems, ecosystem services, ecosystem based adaptation to climate change, sustainable development, blue justice and equity, science-policy.

Journal Articles
  1. Saunders, F., Tafon, R.,Knol-Kauffman, M. and Selim, S. A.,Introductory commentary: Marine conflicts and pathways to sustainability in an era of Blue Growth and climate change. Maritime Studies 23, 3 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40152-023-00347-9
  2. Sultana, R., Irfanullah, H. Md., Selim, S. A., Budrudzaman, M., (2023). Vulnerability and ecosystem-based adaptation in the farming communities of droughtprone Northwest Bangladesh. Environmental Challenges, 11, 100707.
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envc.2023.100707 (Elsevier)
  3. Dahlet, L.I., Selim, S.A. & Van Putten, I. A review of how we study coastal and marine conflicts: is social science taking a broad enough view? Maritime Studies 22, 29 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40152-023-00319-z
  4. Boonstra, W.J., Dahlet, L., Eriksson, B., Selim, S.A., & Van Putten, I. Understanding and analysing the complex causality of conflicts over marine environments through process tracing. Maritime Studies 22, 19 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40152-023-00306-4
  5. Van Putten, E., Aswani, S., Selim, S.A., Boonstra, W. et al. History matters: societal acceptance of deep-sea mining and incipient conflicts in Papua New Guinea. Maritime Studies 22, 32 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40152-023-00318-0
  6. Leopoldo Cavaleri Gerhardinger, Tanya Brodie Rudolph, Françoise Gaill, Graham Mortyn, Eloise Littley, Adrien Vincent, Dannieli Firme Herbst, Patrizia Ziveri, Louise Jeanneau, Maria Laamanen, Marta Cavallé, Jay Marisca Gietzelt, Marion Glaser, Mouna Chambon, Juliette Jacquemont, Samiya Ahmed Selim, Cecile Brugere, Cristina Brito, Laura M. Pereira, Sandra Amezaga, Nicolás Fernández Muñoz, Lucas Becquet, Arnaud Lalo & André Carlo Colonese (2023) Bridging Shades of Blue: Co-constructing Knowledge with the International Panel for Ocean Sustainability, Coastal Management, 51:4, 244-264, DOI: 10.1080/08920753.2023.2244082
  7. Glaser, M., Selim, S.A., De la Cruz-Modino, R. et al. Analysis across case-based global sustainability projects: an emerging challenge for ocean conflict research in the Anthropocene. Maritime Studies 22, 48 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40152-023-00323-3
  8. Sultana R, Irfanullah HM, Selim SA and Alam MS (2023) Social-ecological vulnerability to climate change and risk governance in coastal fishing communities of Bangladesh. Front. Mar. Sci. 10:1174659. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2023.1174659
  9. Zaman, S., Sara, S.A., Tabassum, T., Tabassum, T., Selim, S.A. and Irfanullah, H.M. (2023), "Understanding and assessing sustainable behavior among the academics in higher education institutions of Bangladesh", International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJSHE-11-2022-0366
  10. Sultana, R., Selim, S. A., & Alam, Md. S. (2022).Diverse perceptions of supply and demand of cultural ecosystem services offered by urban green spaces in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Journal of Urban Ecology, Volume 8, Issue 1, https://doi.org/10.1093/jue/juac003
  11. Miñarro, S., Selim, S.A., & Galbraith, E. D. (2022). Does catching more fish increase the subjective well-being of fishers? Insights from Bangladesh. Ambio, https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-021-01698-5 
  12. Bhowmik, J., Irfanullah, H. Md., & Selim, S. A. (2021). Empirical evidence from Bangladesh of assessing climate hazard-related loss and damage and state of adaptive capacity to address them. Climate Risk Management, 31, 100273. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crm.2021.100273
  13. Bhowmik, J., Selim, S. A., Irfanullah, H. Md., Shuchi, J. S., Sultana, R., & Ahmed, S. G. (2021). Resilience of small-scale marine fishers of Bangladesh against the COVID-19 pandemic and the 65-day fishing ban. Marine Policy, 134, 104794. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2021.104794
  14. Breckwoldt, A., Lopes, P. F. M., & Selim, S. A. (2021). Look Who’s Asking—Reflections on Participatory and Transdisciplinary Marine Research Approaches. Frontiers in Marine Science, 8. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2021.627502
  15. Brodie, S., Frainer, A., Pennino, M. G., Jiang, S., Kaikkonen, L., Lopez, J., Ortega-Cisneros, K., Peters, C. A., Selim, S. A., & Văidianu, N. (2021). Equity in science: advocating for a triple-blind review system. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 36(11), 957–959. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2021.07.011
  16. Miñarro, S., Reyes-García, V., Aswani, S., Selim, S., Barrington-Leigh, C. P., & Galbraith, E. D. (2021). Happy without money: Minimally monetized societies can exhibit high subjective well-being. PLOS ONE, 16(1), e0244569. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0244569
  17. Pennino, M. G., Brodie, S., Frainer, A., Lopes, P. F. M., Lopez, J., Ortega-Cisneros, K., Selim, S., & Vaidianu, N. (2021). The Missing Layers: Integrating Sociocultural Values Into Marine Spatial Planning. Frontiers in Marine Science, 8. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2021.633198
  18. Selim, S. A., Glaser, M., Tacke, F. I., Rahman, M., & Ahmed, N. (2021). Innovative Aquaculture for the Poor to Adjust to Environmental Change in Coastal Bangladesh? Barriers and Options for Progress. Frontiers in Marine Science, 8. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2021.635281
  19. Sultana, R., Irfanullah, H. Md., Selim, S. A., Raihan, S. T., Bhowmik, J., & Ahmed, S. G. (2021). Multilevel Resilience of Fishing Communities of Coastal Bangladesh Against Covid-19 Pandemic and 65-Day Fishing Ban. Frontiers in Marine Science, 8. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2021.721838
  20. Sultana, R., & Selim, S. A. (2021). Residents’ perceptions of the role and management of green spaces to provide cultural ecosystem services in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Ecology and Society, 26(4). https://doi.org/10.5751/es-12656-260405
  21. Samiya A. Selim, Julia L. Blanchard, Jacob Bedford and Thomas J. Webb, Direct and indirect effects of climate and fishing on changes in coastal ecosystem services: a historical perspective from the North Sea, Regional Environmental Change, 2016, Volume 16, Issue 2, pp 341–351  
Book Chapters

Chowdhury, S.A., Mostafa, A.T. (2023). Sustainable Production and Consumption: Community Development Through Green Economy. In: Leal Filho, W., Ng, T.F., Iyer-Raniga, U., Ng, A., Sharifi, A. (eds) SDGs in the Asia and Pacific Region . Implementing the UN Sustainable Development Goals – Regional Perspectives. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-91262-8_37-1

Selim, S.A., Tripathy, B. & Ahmed, M. (2019). Resilience in Action: Challenges and Solutions to Climate Change in Bangladesh. The University Press Limited (UPL)   

Selim, S. A., Saha, S. K., Sultana, R., & Roberts, C. (2018). The Environmental Sustainable Development Goals in Bangladesh. London, UK: Routledge.

Conference Proceedings

Mohidus S. Khan, Samiya A. Selim, Alexandra E.V. Evans and Matthew Chadwick, Characterizing and Measuring Textile Effluent Pollution Using a Material Balance Approach: Bangladesh Case Study, Proceedings of the International Conference on Mechanical Engineering 2011 (ICME2011),  Dhaka, Bangladesh  IC