His areas of expertise are waste management engineering and environmental microbiological engineering. Studying on appropriate waste management in Asia for more than 25 years. Published research works include GHG emissions from landfills, leachate management in Tropical Southeast Asia, enhancement of waste recycling in Asian industry, etc. He is one of the authors of the IPCC guideline for national GHG inventories (201r refinement). He has led the ASEAN Project for distribution of decentralised wastewater technology. He is a member of the ISO Technical Committee (Solid Recovered Materials) and the National Chair of the mirror committee in Japan. He is also working as a committee member of the Development of International Cooperation Appropriate Disaster Waste Management, Ministry of the Environment, Japan.
Projects
Overcoming barriers to alternative waste management for climate-friendly and eliminating plastic pollution in ASEAN cities
Appropriate Solid Waste Management towards flood risk reduction through recovery of drainage function in tropical Asian urban cities
Adaptation of Solid Waste Management to Frequent Floods in Vulnerable Mid-Scale Asian Cities
Recent work
Appropriate waste management in climate change adaptation: Prevention of urban flash flooding in Asia
Urban flooding in tropical Asia
Adaptation strategies in consideration of social changes
Protecting urban cities from flooding through appropriate waste management: Solutions to urban flooding in tropical Asia
Appropriate waste management along water ways in urban areas toward prevention of urban flood: Case study of Bangkok, Thailand
Urban flood caused by inappropriate waste management in Asia: Adaptation to climate change
Solid waste characterisation in Bangkok canals and its impact to drainage function of combined sewer system
Experimentation of solid waste blockage in drainage system: Effect of waste material and flow velocity
