Md Rumi Shammin
- David Orr Professor of Environmental Studies
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Md Rumi Shammin Elected President of USSEE
Professor of Environmental Studies and Science Md Rumi Shammin was elected president of the United States Society for Ecological Economics (USSEE), which is the national chapter of the International Society for Ecological Economics (ISEE) and part of a global network of regional societies. Shammin’s two-year term started in summer 2025. The society will be hosting its 13th biennial conference at Oberlin in June 2026.
Md Rumi Shammin collaborates on book about climate change in South Asia
Md Rumi Shammin is currently collaborating with Professor Enamul Haque of East West University (Bangladesh), Professor Pranab Mukhopadhyay of Goa University (India), and Mani Nepal of the South Asian Network of Development and Environmental Economics (Nepal) as coeditors of a volume called Climate Change and Community Resilience: Insights from South Asia.
The book will be published by Springer Nature in 2021 and includes several chapters coauthored by Prof. Shammin that represent a decade of fieldwork and research in climate-vulnerable communities of Bangladesh.
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