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Susmita Dasgupta

Susmita Dasgupta

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
54
Citations
15981
World Ranking
2113
National Ranking
1017

Overview

Susmita Dasgupta is affiliated with the World Bank in the United States and specializes in environmental science and social sciences. Their research primarily addresses global and planetary change, health-related environmental issues, transportation, ecology, and earth-surface processes.

The main topics of Dasgupta's work include:

  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
  • Coastal and Marine Dynamics
  • Urban Transport and Accessibility
  • Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
  • Child Nutrition and Water Access
  • Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management

Dasgupta has contributed to prominent publication venues such as:

  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Journal of Management and Sustainability
  • World Development
  • Asia-Pacific Journal of Atmospheric Sciences
  • The World Bank eBooks

Frequent coauthors include David Wheeler, Sunando Bandyopadhyay, Md. Istiak Sobhan, and Ainun Nishat.

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Dasgupta include:

  • Coastal dilemma: Climate change, public assistance and population displacement (2021, World Development)
  • Plastic waste cleanup priorities to reduce marine pollution: A spatiotemporal analysis for Accra and Lagos with satellite data (2022, The Science of The Total Environment)
  • Spatiotemporal analysis of traffic congestion, air pollution, and exposure vulnerability in Tanzania (2021, The Science of The Total Environment)

Dasgupta has an extensive record of book publications, primarily with World Bank imprints. Examples include:

  • Traffic, Air Pollution, and Distributional Impacts in Dar es Salaam: A Spatial Analysis with New Satellite Data (2020)
  • Coping with Climate Change in the Sundarbans: Lessons from Multidisciplinary Studies (2020)
  • Global Technology for Local Monitoring of Air Pollution in Dhaka (2020)
  • Tracking Methane Emissions by Satellite: A New World Bank Database Andcase Study for Irrigated Rice Production (2022)
  • Scalable Tracking of CO2 Emissions: A Global Analysis with Satellite Data (2023)
  • Revisiting Global Biodiversity: A Spatial Analysis of Species Occurrence Data from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (2024)

Their work spans diverse environmental challenges such as climate change adaptation, marine pollution reduction, urban air quality, and biodiversity conservation. These contributions reflect multidisciplinary approaches involving satellite data analytics, spatial and temporal environmental assessments, and policy-relevant research.

Best Publications

  • Confronting the Environmental Kuznets Curve

    Susmita Dasgupta;Benoit Laplante;Hua Wang;David Wheeler

  • The Impact of Sea Level Rise on Developing Countries : A Comparative Analysis

    Susmita Dasgupta;Benoit Laplante;Craig Meisner;David Wheeler

  • What improves environmental performance? evidence from Mexican industry

    Susmita Dasgupta;Hemamala Hettige;David Wheeler

  • Pollution and Capital Markets in Developing Countries

    Susmita Dasgupta;Benoit Laplante;Nlandu Mamingi

  • Environmental regulation and development : a cross-country empirical analysis

    Ashoka Mody;Subhendu Roy;David Wheeler;Susmita Dasgupta

  • Obscure Religious Cults

    Shashi Bhusan Dasgupta

  • Return Behavior in Emerging Stock Markets

    Stijn Claessens;Susmita Dasgupta;Jack Glen

  • Environmental Regulation and Development: A Cross-country Empirical Analysis

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  • Vulnerability of Bangladesh to Cyclones in a Changing Climate : Potential Damages and Adaptation Cost

    Susmita Dasgupta;Mainul Huq;Zahirul Huq Khan;Manjur Murshed Zahid Ahmed

  • Where is the Poverty–Environment Nexus? Evidence from Cambodia, Lao PDR, and Vietnam

    Susmita Dasgupta;Uwe Deichmann;Craig Meisner;David Wheeler

  • The Impact of Sea Level Rise on Developing Countries: A Comparative Analysis

    Susmita Dasgupta;Benoit Laplante;Craig M. Meisner;David Wheeler

  • Pesticide poisoning of farm workers–implications of blood test results from Vietnam

    Susmita Dasgupta;Craig Meisner;David Wheeler;Khuc Xuyen

  • Inspections, pollution prices, and environmental performance: evidence from China

    Susmita Dasgupta;Benoit Laplante;Nlandu Mamingi;Hua Wang

  • An Introduction to Tantric Buddhism

    Shashi Bhusan Dasgupta

  • Climate change and soil salinity: The case of coastal Bangladesh.

    Susmita Dasgupta;Md. Moqbul Hossain;Mainul Huq;David Wheeler

  • Disclosure of environmental violations and the stock market in the Republic of Korea

    Susmita Dasgupta;Jong Ho Hong;Benoit Laplante;Nlandu Mamingi

  • Determinants of a digital divide in Sub-Saharan Africa : a spatial econometric analysis of cell phone coverage

    Piet Buys;Susmita Dasgupta;Tim Thomas;David Wheeler

  • Sea-level rise and storm surges : a comparative analysis of impacts in developing countries

    Susmita Dasgupta;Benoit Laplante;Siobhan Murray;David Wheeler

  • Citizen complaints as environmental indicators : evidence from China

    Susmita Dasgupta;David Wheeler

  • Policy reform, economic growth, and the digital divide - an econometric analysis

    Susmita Dasgupta;Somik Lall;David Wheeler

  • What Improves Environmental Performance? Evidence from Mexican Industry

    Susmita Dasgupta;David Wheeler;Hemamala Hettige

  • Incomplete Enforcement of Pollution Regulation: Bargaining Power of Chinese Factories

    Hua Wang;Nlandu Mamingi;Susmita Dasgupta;Benoît Laplante

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