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Zahoor Ahmad Dar

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Zahoor Ahmad Dar

Zahoor works at the intersection of public policy, climate change and International Relations. He has a bachelor's in liberal arts and a master's in international relations. Zahoor has written extensively on public policy, sustainable development, plastic pollution, energy policy, international relations, emerging technologies such as AI, and data sciences in various magazines, think tanks and newspapers. As a Research Fellow at the Jammu Kashmir Policy Institute, he seeks to constructively engage in research on sustainability, environmental governance, environmental diplomacy and development in Kashmir.

Climate Change: Deepening the vulnerability of Kashmir Himalayas
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Ever since the human evolutionary process got rolling, the climate has exerted influence on the evolutionary pattern and human lives and has also been affected by it in return. Alteration…

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 Plastic: A threat to environmental sustainability and human well-being
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Technically sophisticated, cheap, and lightweight, plastic is one of the world’s most-used materials. Roland Barthes, a French intellectual in his 1957 book Mythologies quotes about plastics: “So, more than a…

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Assessing Drinking Water Issues in Kashmir 
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Resources are an essential index to measure a country’s potential for growth and development. However, when resources availability and consumption rate are not in equilibrium, the possibility of a crisis…

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Mapping Drinking Water Scarcity in Kashmir
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The change in global precipitation, increasing global temperatures, melting of glaciers, rising sea level waters, displacement of people, erratic monsoons pose an unprecedented threat to human existence. Distribution of drinking…

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