Saleh Qazi is a planner and researcher specializing in Urban and Landscape Studies from Pakistan. His work focuses on climate change and hazard understanding, socio-economic and cultural analysis, and adaptation, with a strong emphasis on the Global South.
At UNU-EHS, Saleh has been conducting research as part of an ongoing project on risk tolerance modeling, which is focused on developing a conceptual and quantitative framework to estimate the minimum adaptation investments needed to reduce risk levels to acceptable thresholds for diverse groups. He currently supports the team’s work on climate risk quantification in Somalia, where he’s researching options for incorporating conflict sensitivity into the analysis.
The most interesting part of his work lies in exploring community responses and local contexts, where he consistently seeks grounded, place-based answers to adaptation challenges. His master’s thesis on flood-inducing landscape change in Pakistan examined historical climatic patterns and urban development to propose future planning strategies through GIS mapping, ethnographic research, and complex systems analysis.