Examining International Land Use Policies, Changes, and Conflicts

Mohammed Kamal Hossain is the Professor of Institute of Forestry and Environmental Sciences, Chittagong University, Chittagong, Bangladesh. Dr. Hossain has a BSc (Hons) and MSc degree from the Department of Botany, Chittagong University. He has a PhD degree under the Commonwealth Scholarship Program from Aberdeen University, UK in the field of Silviculture. He has a Post-doctoral fellowship under Commonwealth Scholarship and Fellowship program in U.K. He starts his career as a Research Officer in the Silvicultural Research Division, Bangladesh Forest Research Institute in 1984 and continued till 1993. In July 1993, he joined the Institute of Forestry and Environmental Sciences, Chittagong University (IFESCU) as Assistant Professor and in 2001 he became the Professor of the same Institute in 2001. He has contributed more than 181 scientific articles to national and international referred journals and more than 42 publications in proceedings and in book chapters in the field of Silviculture, biodiversity and plantation forestry. He is the lead/ co-author of 12 books in the field of Silviculture and Environment. In the Institute he supervised more than 102 BSc (Hons), 66 MSc/MS and 4 PhD students. Dr. Hossain holds the life membership of Bangladesh Botanical Society; Bangladesh Association for the Advancement of Science (BAAS); Asiatic Society of Bangladesh; General Secretary, Biodiversity Research Group of Bangladesh (BRGB); Vice-President, Institution of Environmental Professionals, Bangladesh; Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Forestry and Environment, Chittagong University; Editorial Board Member, Journal of Forestry Research, China (2009 – 2018). He has visited the UK, USA, Australia, Canada, China, Sri Lanka, Japan, India, Korea, Nepal, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, Sweden, Switzerland for academic and research purposes.