Department:  Faculty of Social Sciences, Institute of Agricultural and Resource Economincs

Position:  Assistant Professor

HEC Approved Supervisor:  YES

Research Intersts:  Agricultural productivity, Agricultural policy, Climate change, Disaster risk adaptation, Vulnerability, Resilience, Willingness to pay (WTP), Climate extremes and their management.

Publications:  

1. Rauf, S. , K. Bakhsh, A. Abbas, S. Hassan, A. Ali, H. Kachele,, 2017, How hard they hit? Perception, adaptation and public health implications of heat waves in urban and peri-urban Pakistan, Env Sci Poll Res , 24, 10630–1063
2. Choudhury, M. , A. Abbas,, 2017, Agriculture as Social Wellbeing System in Food Security: An Epistemological Study., Theoret Eco Letters, 7, 429-447
3. Arshad, M. , H. Kachele, T. S, K. ., A. B. Tj, S. Aravindakshan, A. Abbas, Y. Mahmood, K. Muller,, 2016, Climate variability, farmland value, and farmers’ perceptions of climate change: implications for adaptation in rural Pakistan, International Journal of Sustainable Development & World Ecology., ,
4. Arshad, M. , A. B. TS, T. Krupnik, S. Aravindakshan, A. Abbas, H. Kachele, K. Muller,, 2016, Climate variability and yield risk in South Asia’s rice–wheat systems: emerging evidence from Pakistan, Paddy and Water Environment, ,
5. Abbas, A. , A. B. TS, H. Kachele, M. Usman, K. Muller,, 2016, An overview of flood mitigation strategy and research support in South Asia: implications for sustainable flood risk management., International Journal of Sustainable Development & World Ecology :, 23(1), 98–111
6. Abbas, A. , A. B. TS, H. Kachele, k. Muller,, 2016, Participatory adaptation to climate extremes: An assessment of households, Journal of Water and Climate Change, 7(1),
7. Usman, M. , A. Abbas, Z. Saqib,, 2016, Conjunctive use of water and its management for enhanced productivity of major crops across tertiary canal irrigation system of Indus basin in Pakistan., Pakistan Journal of Agricultural Sciences ), 53(1), 257–264
8. Abbas, A. , A. B. TS, H. Kachele, K. Muller,, 2015, Non-structural flood risk mitigation under developing country conditions: an analysis on the determinants of willingness to pay for flood insurance in rural Pakistan., Natural Hazards , 75(3), 2119–2135
9. Usman, M. , R. Liedl, M. Shahid, A. Abbas,, 2015, Land use/land cover classification and its change detection using multi-temporal MODIS NDVI data, Journal of Geographical Sciences , 12, 1479–1506

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