Qadir, Manzoor
Assistant Director, Water and Human Development Programme
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- INSTITUTE:
- UNU-INWEH
Education
- Post-doctorate, Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany
- Ph.D., University of Agriculture, Soil and Environmental Sciences, Faisalabad, Pakistan
Biographical Statement
Manzoor Qadir is an environmental scientist with focus on policy, institutional and biophysical aspects of water recycling and safe reuse, water quality and environmental health, water and food security, and sustainable natural resources management under changing climate. He has implemented multidisciplinary projects and directed research teams in different parts of world, particularly in Central Asia and Middle East and North Africa regions. He led teams of eminent professionals to contribute to international and regional initiatives such as the Comprehensive Global Assessment of Water Management in Agriculture, and the International Assessment of Agricultural Science and Technology for Development. In addition to supervising a number of post-doctoral fellows, postgraduate students, and interns, he has undertaken several international and regional capacity development initiatives such as organizing knowledge bridging workshops and training courses for young researchers; and regional workshops as part of UN-Water project, which brought together 143 participants from 71 UN member states from Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Before joining UNU-INWEH in Canada, Manzoor previously held professional positions as Senior Scientist jointly appointed by the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) and the International Water Management Institute (IWMI); Visiting Professor at the Justus-Liebig University, Giessen, Germany; and Associate Professor at the University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan. He authored over 120 publications as peer-reviewed journal articles, books and book chapters, conference papers, edited proceedings of workshops, monographs, and policy briefs. He is a fellow of the Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation and serves on the Editorial Boards of several international journals.
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Articles
- Qadir, Manzoor (2020). Marginal-quality waters for irrigation in water-scarce areas. Rural 21 – The International Journal for Rural Development, 54, 24-25
- Qadir, Manzoor (2018). Addressing trade-offs to promote safely managed wastewater in developing countries. Water Economics and Policy, 4(2), 1-10
- Qadir, Manzoor, Jiménez, Gabriela, Farnum, Rebecca L., Dodson, Leslie L. and Smakhtin, Vladimir (2018). Fog Water Collection: Challenges beyond Technology. Water, 10(4), n/a-n/a
- Qadir, Manzoor, Schubert, Sven, Oster, James D., Sposito, Garrison, Minhas, Paramijit S., Cheraghi, Seyed A.M., Murtaza, Ghulam, Mirzabaev, Alisher and Saqib, Muhammad (2018). High-magnesium waters and soils: Emerging environmental and food security constraints. Science of The Total Environment, 642, 1108-1117
- Jones, Edward, Qadir, Manzoor, van Vliet, Michelle T.H., Smakhtin, Vladimir and Kang, Seong-mu (2018). The state of desalination and brine production: A global outlook. Science of the Total Environment, 657, 1343-1356
- Arslan, Awadis, Ghalia, Abdul M., Khalaf, Abdallah, Ponnambalam, Rameshwaran, Ragab, Ragab, Singh, Murari and Qadir, Manzoor (2016). Evaluating the Productivity Potential of Chickpea, Lentil and Faba Bean Under Saline Water Irrigation Systems. Irrigation and Drainage, 65(1), 19-28
- Qadir, Manzoor (2016). Reversing Salt-Induced Land Degradation Requires Integrated Measures. Water Economics and Policy, 2(1), 1-8
- Dickin, Sarah, Schuster-Wallace, Corinne J., Qadir, Manzoor and Pizzacalla, Katherine (2016). A Review of Health Risks and Pathways for Exposure to Wastewater Use in Agriculture. Environmental Health Perspectives, 124(7), 900-909
- Murtaza, Ghulam, Javed, Wasim, Qadir, Manzoor and Aslam, Muhammad (2016). Soil-applied zinc and copper suppress cadmium uptake and improve the performance of cereals and legumes. International Journal of Phytoremediation, 19(2), 199-206
- Rameshwaran, Ponnambalam, Qadir, Manzoor, Ragab, Ragab, Arslan, Awadis, Ghalia, Abdul M. and Khalaf, Abdallah (2015). Tolerance of Faba Bean, Chickpea and Lentil to Salinity: Accessions’ Salinity Response Functions. Irrigation And Drainage, 65(1), 49-60
- Wichelns, Dennis and Qadir, Manzoor (2015). Achieving sustainable irrigation requires effective management of salts, soil salinity, and shallow groundwater. The Jim Oster Special Issue, 157, 31-38
- Qadir, Manzoor, Quillérou, Emmanuelle, Nangia, Vinay, Murtaza, Ghulam, Singh, Murari, Thomas, Richard and Drechsel, Pay (2014). Economics of salt-induced land degradation and restoration. Natural Resources Forum, 38(4), 1-14
- Evans, Alexandra E. V., Hanjra, Munir A., Jiang, Yunlu, Qadir, Manzoor and Drechsel, Pay (2012). Water Quality: Assessment of the Current Situation in Asia. International Journal of Water Resources Development, 28(2), 195-216
- Grangier, Caroline, Qadir, Manzoor and Singh, Murari (2012). Health Implications for Children in Wastewater-Irrigated Peri-Urban Aleppo, Syria. Water Quality, Exposure and Health, 4(4), 187-195
- Qadir, Manzoor, Noble, Andrew D. and Chartres, Colin (2011). ADAPTING TO CLIMATE CHANGE BY IMPROVING WATER PRODUCTIVITY OF SOILS IN DRY AREAS. Land Degradation & Development, 24(1), 12-21
Books
- The Aral Sea Basin: Water for Sustainable Development in Central Asia, ed. Xenarios, Stefanos, Schmidt-Vogt, Dietrich, Qadir, Manzoor, Janusz-Pawletta, Barbara and Abdullaev, Iskandar (Milton Park: Routledge, 2019).
- Wastewater: Economic Asset in an Urbanizing World, ed. Drechsel, Pay, Wichelns, Dennis and Qadir, Manzoor (Amsterdam: Springer Netherlands, 2015).
Book Chapters
- De Souza, Marlos, Koo-Oshima, Sasha, Kahil, Taher, Wada, Yoshihide, Qadir, Manzoor, Jewitt, Graham, Cudennec, Christophe, Uhlenbrook, Stefan and Zhang, Lulu, “Food and agriculture” in The United Nations World Water Development Report 2021: Valuing Water (Paris: UNESCO, 2021), 67-78.
- Guppy, Lisa, Qadir, Manzoor and Lautze, Jonathan, “Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 6 in the Zambezi River Basin” in The Zambezi River Basin: Water and sustainable development, ed. Lautze, Jonathan, Phiri, Zebediah, Smakhtin, Vladimir and Saruchera, Davison (Oxford/New York: Routledge, 2017), 234-248.
- Qadir, Manzoor and Sato, Toshio, “Water reuse in Arid Zones” in Urban Water Reuse Handbook (Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2016), 867-874.
- Qadir, Manzoor and Drechsel, Pay, “Contaminant Management in Water Reuse Systems” in Urban Water Reuse Handbook (Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2016), 525-532.
- Mueller, Lothar, Suleimenov, Mekhlis, Karimov, Akmal, Qadir, Manzoor, Saparov, Abdulla, Balgabayev, Nurlan, Helming, Katharina and Lischeid, Gunnar, “Land and Water Resources of Central Asia, Their Utilisation and Ecological Status” in Novel Measurement and Assessment Tools for Monitoring and Management of Land and Water Resources in Agricultural Landscapes of Central Asia, ed. Mueller, Lothar, Saparov, Abdulla and Lischeid, Gunnar (Switzerland: Springer International Publishing, 2014), 3-59.
- Mueller, Lothar, Ball, Bruce C., Smolentseva, Elena, Sychev, Victor G., Shepherd, T. Graham, Qadir, Manzoor, Helming, Katharina, Behrendt, Axel and Eulenstein, Frank, “Productivity Potentials of the Global Land Resource for Cropping and Grazing” in Novel Measurement and Assessment Tools for Monitoring and Management of Land and Water Resources in Agricultural Landscapes of Central Asia, ed. Mueller, Lothar, Saparov, Abdulla and Lischeid, Gunnar (Switzerland: Springer International Publishing, 2014), 115-142.
- Murtaza, Ghulam, Ghafoor, Abdul, Zia-ur-Rehman, Muhammad and Qadir, Manzoor, “Marginal-Quality Water Use as an Ameliorant for Tile-Drained Saline-Sodic Soils in a Rice-Wheat Production System” in Developments in Soil Salinity Assessment and Reclamation, ed. Shahid, Shabbir A., Abdelfattah, Mahmoud A. and Taha, Faisal K. (Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg New York London: Springer, 2013), 295-311.
Reports
- Qadir, Manzoor (2017). Uncover Resources: Alleviating global water scarcity through unconventional water resources and technologies. United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH).
- Metcalfe, Chris D., Guppy, Lisa and Qadir, Manzoor (2017). Global Barriers To Improving Water Quality: A Critical Review. UNU-INWEH Report Series. United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH).
- Qadir, Manzoor and Mwachiro, Jacintah (2017). Towards a World Free of Untreated Wastewater. United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH).
- Schuster-Wallace, Corinne J., Qadir, Manzoor, Adeel, Zafar, Renaud, Fabrice G. and Dickin, Sarah (2015). Putting Water and Energy at the Heart of Sustainable Development. UNU-INWEH.
- Qadir, Manzoor, Noble, Andrew D., Karajeh, Fawzi and Biju, George (2015). Potential Business Opportunities from Saline Water and Salt-affected Land Resources. Resource Recovery & Reuse. CGIAR.
- Hernández-Sancho, Francesc, Lamizana-Diallo, Birguy, Mateo-Sagasta, Javier and Qadir, Manzoor (2015). Economic Valuation of Wastewater: The cost of action and the cost of no action. UNEP.
- Adeel, Zafar, Bullock, Andrew, Chaudry, M. A., Kuylenstierna, Johan, Qadir, Manzoor, Schuster-Wallace, Corinne J. and Weitz, Nina (2013). Catalyzing water for sustainable development and growth: Framing Water within the Post 2015 Development Agenda: Options and Considerations. UNU-INWEH.
- Mateo-Sagasta, Javier, Medlicott, Kate, Qadir, Manzoor, Raschid-Sally, Liqa, Drechsel, Pay and Liebe, Jens (2013). Proceedings of the UN-Water project on the Safe Use of Wastewater in Agriculture. UNW-DPC.
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- Innovative Wastewater Management and Reuse
- Water-Related Sustainable Development Goals
- Water Security and Food Security
- Integrated Ecosystem Management
- UN Water TPA drinking water and basic sanitation
- Managing Water-Related Health Risks
- Water Without Borders
- Unconventional Water Resources
- Water-related Sustainable Development Goals
- Accelerating the implementation of water-related SDGs
- Promoting unconventional water resources and technologies for water-scarce areas