• Water and natural resources management
• Environmental and climate change
• Geoinformatics, Earth observation and new technologies
• Sustainable Development Goals

Disaster Risk Management 

Short bio

Dr. Navneet Kumar is working as a Senior Research Associate at the Department of Global Mountain Safeguard Research (GLOMOS) of the United Nations University (UNU) – Institute of Environment and Human Security (EHS), Bonn, Germany, where he has been involved in strategic project development, acquisition and implementation, with particular focus on the Hindu Kush – Himalaya region, Central Asia, and countries in Africa. Dr Kumar has over 15 years of work experience in the topics related to remote sensing and GIS applications in natural resources management, hydrological modelling, climate change, land degradation, risk and impact assessment, disaster risk reduction and disaster risk management. He has contributed to several projects in Africa and Asia (Algeria, Ethiopia, India, Mali, Niger, Uzbekistan, South Korea). He has also been involved in capacity and network-building projects with the Pan African University – Institute of Water and Energy Sciences (PAUWES) in Algeria and a collaboration project between PAUWES and the West African Science Service Center on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use (WASCAL). He has conducted several lectures, summer schools and workshops in Africa, India, and Germany and presented his work at several international conferences and received awards and travel grants. He served as a member of scientific committees (e.g. master thesis defence committees) and member of the organizing and scientific committees of International conferences. Navneet has published in several peer-reviewed journals and is the co-editor of three handbooks. He is a reviewer for several grant proposals and scientific journals and a guest editor for the International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation [IF 7.5]; Sustainability Journal [3.9], Water Journal [3.4].

Links: 

https://unu.edu/ehs/about/expert/navneet-kumar

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9548-0953