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.
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.
Social-ecological systems, ecosystem services, ecosystem based adaptation to climate change, sustainable development, conservation biology
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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