Shuaib Lwasa

Shuaib Lwasa is a Professor of Urban Resilience and Global Development. Shuaib has over 22 years of university teaching and research on urban sustainability formerly at Makerere University where he was a founding coordinator of the Urban Action research Lab. He has worked on interdisciplinary research projects focused on African cities but also in South Asia but also climate change and health among marginalized communities. His publications are in the areas of climate change and health, urban mitigation of and adaptation to climate change, urban environmental management, spatial planning, and disaster risk reduction, urban sustainability. Shuaib was a Coordinating Lead Author of the IPCC WG III Chapter 8 “Urban Systems and Human Settlements” and Lead Author for the IPCC Special report on Land and Climate Change.