Authored by Prof. Jayant Kumar Routray and AIT doctoral student Md. Mustafa Saroar, the paper titled “In-situ adaptation against sea level rise in Bangladesh: does awareness matter?” , was awarded the best paper by the Emerald Publication Group at KLIMA 2009.
The paper is a part of Mr. Saroar's ongoing doctoral thesis research on "Adaptation with vulnerability to climate change induced sea level rise in coastal Bangladesh".
The Climate 2009 conference was organized by the Research and Transfer Centre of the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences in partnership with Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), World Meteorological Organization (WMO), Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Global Environment Facility (GEF), German Association for Technical Cooperation (GTZ), and the Emerald Group among others.