Chapagain, Saroj
Associate Programme Officer
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- INSTITUTE:
- UNU-FLORES
- OFFICE:
- UNU-FLORES, Ammonstrasse 74, Dresden, 01067, Germany
- E-MAIL:
- saroj@unu.edu
- PHONE:
- +49 351 8921 9379
- NATIONALITY:
- Nepali
Research Interests
- Climate change adaptation
- Environmental Change & Sustainable Development
- Water Pollution
- Water Resources Management
Education
- PhD, Integrated River Basin Management, University of Yamanashi, Japan (2009)
- MSc, Physical Land Resource Management, Ghent University, Belgium (2005)
- BSc, Agriculture, Tribhuvan University, Nepal (2000)
Appointments
- Lifetime full member, International Society for Development and Sustainability (ISDS)
- Editorial board member, Ramkhamhaeng International Journal of Science and Technology, Ramkhamhaeng University, Thailand
- Committee member, Research Ethics Committee (REC), UNU-IAS
Biographical Statement
Saroj Kumar Chapagain is an Associate Programme Officer (Sustainability Assessment) at UNU-FLORES. Prior to joining UNU-FLORES, Saroj was a Research Fellow at UNU-IAS, Tokyo, where he worked on Water for Sustainable Development (WSD), a multidisciplinary policy research project examining the role of water in society, economy, and the environment. Aside from the WSD, he also contributed to the teaching and student supervision of the UNU-IAS’s Postgraduate Degree and Training Programme (PDT).
Saroj had previously worked as a Senior Research Specialist at the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Thailand on a Sustainable Decentralized Wastewater Systems (DEWATs) project supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF). While working at AIT, he participated in reinventing innovative sanitation systems. Moreover, he served as an affiliated faculty member at AIT from April 2016 to December 2017.
Saroj worked as a postdoc researcher at the International Research Center for River Basin Environment (ICRE), University of Yamanashi, Japan; as a researcher/director at the Center of Research for Environment Energy and Water (CREEW), Nepal; and as a water monitoring expert at the Kathmandu Valley Water Supply Management Board (KVWSMB), Nepal. He has authored/co-authored dozens of papers appearing in international refereed journals and proceedings.
Further Information
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Articles
- Chapagain, Saroj, Aryal, Anil, Mohan, Geetha, Shrestha, Sadhana, Mishra, Binaya K. and Fukushi, Kensuke (2022). Analysis of the climate change impact on water availability and the links between water pollution and economy for sustainable water resource management in Kaski District, Nepal. Journal of Water and Climate Change, n/a-n/a
- Chapagain, Saroj, Mohan, Geetha, Rimba, Andi B., Payus, Carolyn, Sudarma, I.M. and Fukushi, Kensuke (2022). Analyzing the relationship between water pollution and economic activity for a more effective pollution control policy in Bali Province, Indonesia. Sustainable Environment Research, 32(5), 1-14
- Mohan, Geetha, Chapagain, Saroj, Fukushi, Kensuke, Papong, Seksan, I.M. Sudarma, Rimba, Andi B. and Osawa,Takahiro (2021). An extended Input–Output framework for evaluating industrial sectors and provincial-level water consumption in Indonesia. Water Resources and Industry, 25, 1-20
- Rimba, Andi B., Mohan, Geetha, Chapagain, Saroj, Andi, Arumansawang, Payus, Carolyn, Fukushi, Kensuke, Husnayaen, Osawa,Takahiro and Avtar, Ram (2021). Impact of population growth and land use and land cover (LULC) changes on water quality in tourism-dependent economies using a geographically weighted regression approach. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 28, 25920-25938
- Shrestha, Sadhana, Yoshinaga, Emi, Chapagain, Saroj, Mohan, Geetha, Gasparatos, Alexandros and Fukushi, Kensuke (2021). Wastewater-Based Epidemiology for Cost-Effective Mass Surveillance of COVID-19 in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Challenges and Opportunities. Water, 13(20), 1-14
- Rimba, Andi B., Atmaja, Tri, Mohan, Geetha, Chapagain, Saroj, Andi, Arumansawang, Payus, Carolyn and Fukushi, Kensuke (2020). IDENTIFYING LAND USE AND LAND COVER (LULC) CHANGE FROM 2000 TO 2025 DRIVEN BY TOURISM GROWTH: A STUDY CASE IN BALI. The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, XLIII-B3-2020, n/a-n/a
- Chapagain, Saroj, Mohan, Geetha and Fukushi, Kensuke (2020). An Extended Input–Output Model to Analyze Links Between Manufacturing and Water Pollution in Nepal. Water, Air, & Soil Pollution, 231(570), 1-11
- Supe, Hitesh, Avtar, Ram, Singh, Deepak, Gupta, Ankita, Yunus, Ali P., Dou, Jie, Ravankar, Ankit A., Mohan, Geetha, Chapagain, Saroj, Sharma, Vivek, Singh, Chander K., Tutubalina, Olga and Kharrazi, Ali (2020). Google Earth Engine for the Detection of Soiling on Photovoltaic Solar Panels in Arid Environments. Remote Sensing, 12(9), 1-26
- Payus, Carolyn, Huey, Lim Ann, Adnan, Farrah, Rimba, Andi B., Mohan, Geetha, Chapagain, Saroj, Roder, Giulia, Gasparatos, Alexandros and Fukushi, Kensuke (2020). Impact of Extreme Drought Climate on Water Security in North Borneo: Case Study of Sabah. Water, 12(4), 1-19
- Vo, Hoang Nhat Phong, Koottatep, Thammarat, Chapagain, Saroj, Panuvatvanich, Atitaya, Polprasert, Chongrak, Nguyen, Thi Minh Hong, Chaiwong, Chawalit and Nguyen, Ngoc Luong (2019). Removal and monitoring acetaminophen-contaminated hospital wastewater by vertical flow constructed wetland and peroxidase enzymes. Journal of Environmental Management, 250, 1-9
- Koottatep, Thammarat, Saroj Kumar Chapagain, Chongrak Polprasert, Atitaya Panuvatvanich, and Kyu-Hong Ahn. 2018. “Sanitation situations in selected Southeast Asian countries and application of innovative technologies.” Environment, Development and sustainability 20, no. 1 (2018): 495-506. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10668-016-9892-6
- Koottatep, Thammarat, Hoang Nhat Phong Vo, Saroj Kumar Chapagain, Atitaya Panuvatvanich, Chongrak Polprasert, and Kyu Hong Ahn. 2017. “Performance evaluation of selected aquatic plants and iron-rich media for removal of PPCPs from wastewater in constructed wetlands.” Desalination and Water Treatment 91 (2017): 281-286. 10.5004/dwt.2017.20816
- Koottatep, Thammarat, Saroj Kumar Chapagain, Jaruwat Watanatanachart, and Chongrak Polprasert. 2015. “Application of nano-silver coated granular activated carbon for inactivation of septic tank effluent.” Journal of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene for Development 5, no. 4 (2015): 632-637. https://doi.org/10.2166/washdev.2015.022
- Pandey, Vishnu Prasad., Sangam Shrestha, Saroj K. Chapagain, and Futaba Kazama. 2011. “A framework for measuring groundwater sustainability.” Environmental Science & Policy 14, no. 4 (2011): 396-407.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2011.03.008 - Chapagain, Saroj Kumar, Vishnu P. Pandey, Sangam Shrestha, Takashi Nakamura, and Futaba Kazama. 2010. “Assessment of deep groundwater quality in Kathmandu Valley using multivariate statistical techniques.” Water, Air, & Soil Pollution 210, no. 1 (2010): 277-288.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11270-009-0249-8 - Chapagain, S. K., Sangam Shrestha, Gijs Du Laing, Marc Verloo, and F. Kazama. 2009. “Spatial distribution of arsenic in the intertidal sediments of River Scheldt, Belgium.” Environment International 35, no. 3 (2009): 461-465. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2008.07.019
- Du Laing, Gijs, Saroj. K. Chapagain, M. Dewispelaere, Erik Meers, F. Kazama, F. M. G. Tack, J. Rinklebe, and Marc G. Verloo. 2009. “Presence and mobility of arsenic in estuarine wetland soils of the Scheldt estuary (Belgium).” Journal of Environmental Monitoring 11, no. 4 (2009): 873-881. https://doi.org/10.1039/B815875D
- Chapagain, Saroj Kumar, Sadhana Shrestha, Takashi Nakamura, Vishnu. P. Pandey, and Futaba Kazama. 2009. “Arsenic occurrence in groundwater of Kathmandu Valley, Nepal.” Desalination and Water Treatment 4, no. 1-3 (2009): 248-254. https://doi.org/10.5004/dwt.2009.492
Book Chapters
- Koottatep, Thammarat, Ferré, Amédé, Chapagain, Saroj, Fakkaew, Krailuck and Strande, Linda, “Faecal sludge sample collection and handling” in Methods for Faecal Sludge Analysis, ed. Velkushanova, Konstantina, Strande, Linda, Ronteltap, Mariska, Koottatep, Thammarat, Brdjanovic, Damir and Buckley, Chris (Online: IWA Publishing, 2021), 55-84.
Conference Publications
- Mohan, Geetha, Mishra, Ranjeeta, Fukushi, Kensuke, Rimba, Andi B., Avtar, Ram, Lakshmi, N.P., Chapagain,Saroj and I.M. Sudarma, Factors affecting and farmers’ perception of the adoption of water-saving irrigation technologies in semi-arid states in India Forum for Global Knowledge Sharing, the XIV Annual Conference of Knowledge Forum on ‘Technology and Employment’, Madras, 2019/10/11-13.
- Rimba, Andi B., Chapagain,Saroj, Masago, Yoshifumi, Fukushi, Kensuke and Mohan, Geetha, Investigating Water Sustainability and Land Use/Land Cover Change (LULC) as the Impact Of Tourism Activity in Bali, Indonesia 2019 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Yokohama, 2019/07/28-2019/08/02.
Conference Proceedings
- Chapagain,Saroj, Mohan, Geetha, Roder, Giulia, Rimba, Andi B., Mishra, Binaya K. and Fukushi, Kensuke ed. AGU Fall Meeting 2019 2019/12/9-13 San Francisco. Online: American Geophysical Union, 2019.
- Roder, Giulia, Mohan, Geetha, Chapagain,Saroj, Rimba, Andi B. and Fukushi, Kensuke ed. AGU Fall Meeting 2019 2019/12/9-13 San Francisco. Online: American Geophysical Union, 2019.
- Rimba, Andi B., Mohan, Geetha, Chapagain,Saroj, Fukushi, Kensuke, Roder, Giulia and Andi, Arumansawang ed. AGU Fall Meeting 2019 2019/12/9-13 San Francisco. Online: American Geophysical Union, 2019.
Reports
- Chapagain, Saroj, Mohan, Geetha and Fukushi, Kensuke (2022). Water for Sustainable Development Casebook: Recognising the Value of Water for Sustainable Development. United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability.
- Mohan, Geetha, Shrestha, Sadhana, Chapagain, Saroj, Payus, Carolyn and Fukushi, Kensuke (2022). Strengthening Wastewater Monitoring and Surveillance for COVID-19 and Other Infectious Diseases. United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability.
- Roder, Giulia, Mohan, Geetha, Chapagain, Saroj and Fukushi, Kensuke (2021). Advancing Multiple Values of Water in Water Policy & Management in Asia. UNU-IAS Policy Brief series. United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability.
- Roder, Giulia, Chapagain, Saroj, Katramiz, Tarek, Mohan, Geetha, Mishra, Binaya K. and Fukushi, Kensuke (2021). Transforming Water Conflicts into Collaborative Watershed Management Solutions — Lessons from the Greater Himalayan Region. UNU-IAS Policy Brief series. United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability.