Malan Ketcha Armand Kablan

Institution

Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny

Department of Earth Sciences

22 BP 582 Abidjan 22

Research Interests

My research interests include urban land use/cover change, climate change adaptation and mitigation, disaster risk management and reduction, water, sanitation and environmental pollution as well as sustainable development.

Topics to speak on:

Disaster Management; Human security

Biography

KABLAN Malan Ketcha Armand (Côte d’Ivoire)
(Environmental scientist + human security specialist)
Well-grounded hydrogeologist and environmental scientist with outstanding experiences and skills in the field of climate change and human security, hydro-geological risk and disaster management, Dr. Kablan is employed at Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny as Lecturer and Researcher. His research interests include hydrology, hydrogeology, human security, climate change, vulnerability, and risk assessment, disaster risk management and reduction, and GIS. A distinguished scientist with a solid background in climate change and human security, he belongs to several learned societies such as the young scientist of the Integrated Research for Disaster Risk (IRDR), the Global Young Academy (GYA) and the International Society for Digital Earth (ISDE). His Master of Science degree which training language was English, allowed him to have, in addition to French, a very advanced level in this international language.