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Abul Quasem Al-Amin is an Environmental Economist working on RICE (Regional Integrated Climate-Economy model) based climate modelling for ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) regions. He is well known for his contribution in climate change as climate modeler, currently working on the integration of RICE and LEAP programming in one platform to make the climate modelling more dynamic and toward to NLP (non linear programming) orientation. Abul Quasem Al-Amin is researching the technology adoption challenges of introducing hydrogen fuel cell vehicles in Malaysia. His areas of research include environmental modelling, sustainable development, and climate change. Previous assignments have included climate change research to implement a project on Supporting National Governments in the Transition to a Low-Carbon Development Pathway with UNDESA (United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs) as well as Asia Pacific Network on Mainstreaming Adaptation to Climate Change into Policy and Development: CRP2009.

Education

Abul Quasem Al-Amin completed his Ph.D. on Development and Environment based on the research application to Carbon Taxation Policy to Mitigate Environmental Pollution in the Malaysian Economy in 2008. He also completed his MSCP (Malaysia Sustainable Cities program ) fellowship from MiT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Boston, USA in 2017-2018.

Career

Abul Quasem Al-Amin is a Professor at the Institute of Energy Policy and Research (IEPRe), National Energy University Malaysia. He also holds positions as a Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Environment, University of Waterloo; and the AH International Business School, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia.

Awards and honors

He received the award for “Hydrogen fuel and transport system: a sustainable and environmental future”, awarded by the IJHE awards committee to receive the first IJHE T. Nejat Veziroglu award as the most cited paper in the “hydrogen energy/hydrogen economy” category for the year 2016.

Selected publications


 * Leal Filho, W., Pociovalisteanu, D. M., & Al-Amin, A. Q. (Eds.). (2016). Sustainable Economic Development: Green Economy and Green Growth. Springer.
 * Al-Amin, A. Q. & Coelho ST. 2015. Volume 1. Climate Change Impacts and Management (handling climatic, physical, human and biodiversity impacts on land and water ecosystems). Leal Filho, W. (Ed.). (2015). Handbook of climate change adaptation. Springer Berlin Heidelberg.