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Scoping Study: Reversing Environmental Degradation in Africa and Asia (West Africa)
This report examines environmental degradation in West Africa, focusing on deforestation, soil degradation, water pollution, and biodiversity loss.
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Vaibhav Aggarwal
Vaibhav is a sustainability practitioner, driven by research, innovation and problem solving approaches. He is an IIT Roorkee alumnus and has more than a decade of corporate experience in Strategy and Policy.
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Natalia Ruiz Morato
A versatile legal scholar, consultant, and programme manager with expertise in ethnic and rural human rights, food security, biodiversity protection and environmental governance across Latin America, East Asia, the United States and Germany.
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Prof. Mukand Babel
Mukand Babel is a visiting professor at UNU Resource Nexus and a full professor at the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) in Thailand, and the Director of the Centre for Water and Climate Adaptation at AIT.
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Waseem Ashraf
Waseem Ashraf is part of the Joint PhD Programme of UNU Resource Nexus and TU Dresden.
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Rayyan Sulieman
Rayyan Sulieman is a Doctoral Researcher in the Joint Ph.D. Programme in Integrated Management of Water, Soil, and Waste between Technische Universität Dresden and UNU Resource Nexus
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Prof. Serena Coetzee
Serena Coetzee is the Head of Programme at UNU Resource Nexus (Education).
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Ghada Amin
Before joining UNU Resource Nexus, Ghada worked with GIZ on nexus integration policies and ESG reporting. Her current research focuses on corporate biodiversity management in the MENA region.
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Hela Hammami
Hela Hammami graduated in rural engineering, water management and forestry, and thus developed a strong foundation in understanding the environmental problems related to flood protection, water management, land conservation and forest management.
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Prashant Kumar
Prashant Kumar is a Doctoral Researcher in the Joint Junior Researcher Programme of Technische Universität Dresden and UNU Resource Nexus.