A. Q. M. Mahbub is a Bangladeshi academic and vice-chancellor of the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Science and Technology University. He is a former professor of the Department of Geography and the Environment at University of Dhaka.

He works on the themes of environment, population mobility and urban planning. ^[2]

Biography

Mahbub completed his BSc in 1975 and MSc in 1976 at the University of Dhaka. ^{[3] [4]} Two years later, he joined the faculty there as a lecturer in the Department of Geography. ^{[3] [5]}

He received his PhD in 1986 from University of Canterbury in New Zealand, for his dissertation Population Mobility in Rural Bangladesh: The Circulation of Working People. ^{[3] [4] [6]} Thereafter he continued to teach at the University of Dhaka, and became full professor in the Department of Geography and the Environment in 1997. ^[3]

After retirement from the University of Dhaka, he was appointed as the vice-chancellor of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Science and Technology University (BSMRSTU), Gopalganj in 2020. ^[5]

In February 2022, Mahbub joined BSMRSTU teachers and students in demonstrating against the gang rape of a student. ^[7] He was injured when protestors were attacked by alleged members of the Bangladesh Chatra League. ^{[8] [9]} After four days of protests, the academic council, chaired by Mahbub, suspended classes for three days. ^[10]

Publications

• Mahbub, A. Q. M. (1983). Population mobility in rural Bangladesh: The circulation of working people (PhD). University of Canterbury. doi: 10.26021/7442.
• Mahbub, A. Q. M (1997). Mobility behaviour of working people in Bangladesh: rural-rural and rural-urban circulation. Urban Studies Programme, Dept. of Geography and Environment, University of Dhaka. ISBN  978-984-510-012-0. OCLC  40142751.
• Angeles, Gustavo; Lance, Peter; Barden-O'Fallon, Janine; Islam, Nazrul; Mahbub, AQM; Nazem, Nurul Islam (8 June 2009). "The 2005 census and mapping of slums in Bangladesh: design, select results and application". International Journal of Health Geographics. 8 (1): 32. doi: 10.1186/1476-072X-8-32. ISSN  1476-072X. PMC  2701942. PMID  19505333.
• Mahmood, Riffat; Mahbub, A. Q. M. (2018). "Building Vulnerable Islander Resilience to Natural Hazard: A Participatory Approach". Handbook of Climate Change Resilience. Springer. pp. 1–30. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-71025-9_107-1. ISBN  978-3-319-71025-9. S2CID  134986489.

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