Uttama Barua
Email: uttama.barua@unsw.edu.au
Supervisors: Moe (Mohammad) Mojtahedi, Hoon Han, Mehedi Ansary
I received my Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Urban and Regional Planning (URP) from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), Dhaka, Bangladesh. After graduation in 2014, I started working as a Research Planner in the Bangladesh Network Office for Urban Safety (BNUS), Department of Civil Engineering, BUET.I joined the Department of URP, BUET as a faculty member.
- Research area
- Research outputs
Disaster risk management (DRM) considering natural hazards (earthquake, flood, etc.) and human induced hazards (fire safety, structural safety, workplace safety, etc); resilient built environment; planning for sustainable development; environmental planning and management; participatory planning; risk-sensitive land use planning; smart city planning; etc.
2020 to current
- Barua, U., Ansary, M. A., Islam, I., Munawar, H. S., & Mojtahedi, M. (2023). Multi-Criteria Earthquake Risk Sensitivity Mapping at the Local Level for Sustainable Risk-Sensitive Land Use Planning (RSLUP). Sustainability, 15(9), 7518.
- Barua, U., & Hossain, D. (2021). A review of the medical waste management system at Covid-19 situation in Bangladesh. Journal of Material Cycles and Waste Management.
- Barua, U., Wiersma, J. W. F., & Ansary, M. A. (2021). Can Rana Plaza happen again in Bangladesh?. Safety science, 135, 105103.
- Barua, U., Islam, I., & Ansary, M. A. (2020). Integration of earthquake risk-sensitivity into landuse planning: An approach for a local level area at development phase. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 50, 101836.
- Barua, U., Mannan, S., Islam, I., Akther, M.S., Islam, M.A., Akter, T., Ahsan, R., & Ansary, M.A. (2020). People’s awareness, knowledge and perception influencing earthquake vulnerability of a community: A study on Ward No. 14, Mymensingh municipality, Bangladesh. Natural Hazards, 103, 1121–1181, DOI 10.1007/s11069-020-04028-2.