Hello, I am
Bassel Daher
Assistant Director for Sustainable Development and Consultant
Let’s work together toward a world that is more sustainable, resilient, equitable, and resource-secure for all
About Me
Welcome to my personal webpage!
As an interdisciplinary-trained professional, my mission is to contribute to creating a more sustainable, resilient, equitable, and resource-secure world for all.
I am dedicated to advancing systems approaches that acknowledge the complexity and interconnectedness of our global challenges, particularly on issues related to food system transformation, energy transition, integrated water management, disaster risk reduction, planetary health, and climate action.
My work emphasizes inclusive, evidence-based, community-engaged approaches toward improved cross-sectoral collaboration, policy coherence, and Sustainable Development.
Approach and Applications
Guided by SYSTEMS THINKING to:
- DEVELOP analytics to evaluate the impact of technological, policy, and behavioral interventions on interconnected resource systems.
- CATALYZE a dialogue around trade-offs associated with different cross-sectoral decisions.
- SUPPORT the development of evidence-based decisions for better management and governance of interconnected resource systems.
Applications of interest include
- Operationalizing water-energy-food-health nexus concepts at multiple scales.
- Sustainable and resilient food systems.
- Climate-smart agricultural technologies and innovations.
- Understanding migration and climate change impacts on interconnected resource systems.
- Community-engaged enegy transition.
- Transitioning to zero-waste circular economies.
- Disaster risk reduction.
- Advancing human and planetary health.
Publications
Advancing a people-centred systems approach to rural transformation
Rural transformation in the Near East and North Africa is ultimately driven by people and the institutions
India and the Gulf: A NewStrategy for Water, Energy,Food, and EcosystemSecurity
Water, energy, food, and ecosystems(WEFE) are deeply interconnected,and these linkages sit at the core oftoday’s most critical
Research Opportunities to Advance Cardiovascular Health through a Planetary Health Lens
Cardiovascular health (CVH) across the life course requires stable, nurturing environments and a healthy planet. Increasing human
What “Nexus”? Towards Resource Nexus standardization (Policy Brief No. 1). United Nations University Institute for Integrated Management of Material Fluxes and of Resources (UNU-FLORES).
Following the Dresden Nexus Conference in 2025, which also marked its 10th anniversary, a policy brief was
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