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Akhilesh Surjan

 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6795-4704

Registered to supervise postgraduate research

20152020

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Research interests

Prof Surjan has successfully engaged with issues of disaster risk reduction, climate change adaptation and urban sustainability for two decades. He served as a Lead Author for the Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). He also served as Contributing Author for the United Nation’s Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction. He has also successfully worked in academic, civil society and government institutions in Asia-Pacific region. Prof Surjan is editor of the international journal Sustainability Science (2017 Impact Factor 3.855) and program committee member of the Australian & New Zealand Disaster & Emergency Management Conference.

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Projects

2019 Rainmaker Start-up - Unpacking ‘Climate Emergency’ in Madhya Pradesh: A CDU Initiative for Solution-Driven Collaboration among Australian and Indian Researchers

Surjan, A., Lassa, J. & Zander, K.

1/10/19 → 31/07/20

Project: Other

Rainmaker Start-up 2019: Climate adaptation pathways for Indigenous communities led enterprises

Surjan, A.

11/12/19 → 11/10/20

Project: Research

Research Output

Managing and responding to pandemics in higher educational institutions: initial learning from COVID-19

Izumi, T., Sukhwani, V., Surjan, A. & Shaw, R., 16 Jul 2020, In : International Journal of Disaster Resilience in the Built Environment. p. 1-16 16 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

    • Connecting the actors, discovering the ties: Exploring disaster risk governance network in Asia and the Pacific

    Trias, A. P. L., Lassa, J. & Surjan, A., Feb 2019, In : International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. 33, p. 217-228 12 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

    • Measuring political will: An index of commitment to disaster risk reduction

    Lassa, J. A., Surjan, A., Caballero-Anthony, M. & Fisher, R., Mar 2019, In : International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. 34, p. 64-74 11 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

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    Exploring linkages between sustainable consumption and prevailing green practices in reuse and recycling of household waste: Case of Bhopal city in India

    Pandey, R. U., Surjan, A. & Kapshe, M., 1 Feb 2018, In : Journal of Cleaner Production. 173, p. 49-59 11 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

    • Teaching emergency and disaster management in Australia: Standards for higher education providers

    Fitzgerald, G., Rego, J., Ingham, V., Brooks, B., Cottrell, A., Manock, I., Surjan, A., Mayne, L., Webb, C., Maguire, B., Crawley, H., Mooney, J., Toloo, S. & Archer, F., Jul 2017, In : Australian Journal of Emergency Management. 32, 3, p. 22-23 2 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate

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