Between 1994 and 2004 Dusan worked as an Advisor to the South African National Department of Water Affairs and Forestry, overseeing the implementation of the integrated information technology in water related disasters, as well as to the National Disaster Management Centre, where his role was to advise in two areas: innovative technologies in disaster risk reduction, and design and development of the integrated National Disaster Risk Reduction Strategy, Development and Implementation. While in South Africa, he designed and developed the web-based South African Hazard and Vulnerability ATLAS.

At the UNU Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS), Dusan’s major responsibility is advising in the areas of implementation of innovative technologies in disaster risk reduction, promoting a sustainable disaster risk reduction strategy, assisting worldwide universities in their postgraduate programmes and curricula in disaster risk reduction education. He also mentors Ph.D. students. He is the focal point for:

• Promotion an integrated national/regional disaster risk reduction approach based on legislation,  institutional development and tertiary disaster risk reduction education (M.Sc. and Ph.D. levels).
• Particular regional focus on cooperation with scientists, managers and UNU-EHS case studies and projects in Central, Eastern and South-eastern Europe and Sub-Saharan Africa.
• Climate change, environmental degradation and hazards monitoring and analysis: hydrometeorology, drought, air pollution and water.
• Rural environment and flood plains (as a spatial coverage).
• Disaster prevention (as a component of the disaster risk reduction cycle).
• Innovative technologies: mathematical and statistical analysis and modeling, system dynamics and optimisation techniques, satellite technologies, remote sensing and GIS, and disaster risk reduction integrated information systems design, development and implementation coordination.