Professor Daanish Mustafa
King’s College London
Expertise on
Countries: Pakistan
Policy Areas & Themes: Climate & Environment, Development Policy, Gender, Violence
Bio
Daanish's research interests have been in water resources geography, environmental hazards, development and critical geographies of violence and terror. His most recent projects have been concerned with gender performativity and violence in Pakistan, cultural politics of urban horticulture in Pakistan, and hydro-social territorialisation in Jordan.
special research expertise on
Critical water resources geographies
Environmental hazards and climate risk
Critical geographies of violence and terror
Problematising environment and development
Engagement experience includes
Co-author of the first climate change response strategies for Pakistan
Lead author for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Pakistan five-year flood response strategy
Policy-related work with the DfID, International Organization for Migration (IOM), Stimson Centre, and United States Institute for Peace (USIP)
Read a sample of Daanish’s research outputs
Contested Waters: Sub-national Scale Water and Conflict in Pakistan (2021)
Hydro-heritage for healing? Examining the gendered experience of water in post-conflict Swat, Pakistan (with co-authors). Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space (2023)
