Office Number:  E-226
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Name: Dr. Uzma Hanif

Designation: Assistant Professor

Department: Economics

Extension Number: 401

Email ID: uzmahanif@fccollege.edu.pk

Office Number: E-226

Brief Profile

Dr. Uzma Hanif is Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Forman Christian College University, Lahore. She has 20 years of experience of teaching to graduate and post-graduate levels. Her research interests include Environmental and Resource Economics, Economics of Climate Change and Policy Issues, Climate Change, and Institutional Governance. Dr. Uzma Hanif also has extensive research experience and has research articles published in national and international peer-reviewed research journals. She is also the author of a book chapter Economic Development of Pakistan.  She has accomplished collaborative research projects with the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, Nepal, and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, China in the area of Economics of Climate Change. She is trained in Environmental Economics at the Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, Thailand. She is also a member of the editorial boards of the Forman Journal of Economic Studies and the Forman Journal of Social Sciences.

Education:

• Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK
• Ph.D. in Economics of Climate Change, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan,
• MPhil in Economics, Government College University, Lahore-Pakistan

Research Grants

1. Principal Investigator: Institutional Strategies to Adapt 0Socio- Economic Impacts of Climate Change in Karakoram Region of China and Pakistan funded by the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD, International Donor Agency of the Project), Nepal. (2018)
2. Co-Principal Investigator: Future Climate Extremes under 2⁰C Scenario in Pakistan, Global Change Impact Studies Centre, Islamabad, Pakistan. (National Donor Agency of the Project)

Publications

1. Hanif, Sarwar & Arshed (2023). Electricity Demand of Pakistan in the Context of Cooling Degree Days: 1972-2022. Pakistan Journal of Economic Studies (PJES), 6(1), 21-34.DOI 
2. Huang, X., Khan, Y.A., Arshed, N., Salem, S., Shabeer, M.G.and Hanif, U. (2023), “Increasing social resilience against climate change risks: a case of extreme climate affected countries”, International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management, Vol. 15 No. 3, pp. 412-431.
3. Yamin, R. ., Hanif, U., Anwar, M. A. ., & Arshed, N. (2023). Environmental Kuznets Curve Approach to Estimate Ecological Footprint in Pakistan. Pakistan Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 11(2), 2500–2511. 
4. Zahid, F., Hanif, U., & Javed, F. (2022). Climate Change and Food Security: Are Asian Economies Tracking Sustainable Development Goals? IRASD Journal of Economics, 4(4), 561–582.  (HEC Y Category Journal).
5. Fahmida, Chaudhary, A. R., & Hanif, U. (2022). Climate Change and Food Security: Steps towards Sustainable Development IRASD Journal of Economics, 4(2), 310–328.
6. Javaid, A.; Arshed, N.; Munir, M.; Amani Zakaria, Z.; Alamri, F.S.; Abd El-Wahed Khalifa, H.; Hanif, U. Econometric Assessment of Institutional Quality in Mitigating Global Climate-Change Risk. Sustainability 2022, 14, 669. 
7. Arshed, N., Ahmad, W. & Hanif, U. A Spatial Temporal Exploration of Factors Motivating Academia-Industry Collaboration. Journal of Knowledge Economy (2021). 
8. Bakhtawar Ijaz, Noman Arshed, Zamin Abbas, Uzma Hanif and Kamran Hameed, Exploration of Role of Economic Globalization on Human Longevity, iRASD Journal of Economics,  (HEC Y Category Journal for 2021-2022).
9. Fatima, N.Arshed and U.Hanif Do Ecological Factors Dictate the Longevity of Human Life: A Case of Asian Countries, Ukrainian Journal of Ecology doi:10.15421/2021_261
10. Sarwar, A., & Hanif, U. (2018). Pakistan’s Electricity Demand Analysis 1975-2016. Empirical Economic Review, 1(1), 109-138.
11. Hanif, Uzma; Syed, Shabib Haider; Abdulla, Kauser;

Ahmed, Rafique; (2010), Economic Impact of Climate

Change on the Agricultural Sector of Punjab, Pakistan. Development

Review, Volume 49.No.04. Islamabad, Pakistan.

Book Chapter

Economic Development in Pakistan, Pakistan Studies: A Book of Readings, Ed by Sikandar Hayat, SANG-E-MEEL Publications, Lahore