• Islands and indigenous community
• Sustainable livelihoods
• Tourism development
• Heritage conservation

Special interest:

• Climate resilience
• Adaptation
• Geopark

Since October 2022
Associate Professor at Institute for Environment and Development (LESTARI), Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia

2010-2022
Senior Lecturer at Institute for Environment and Development (LESTARI), Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia

2010
Visiting Fellow at Charles Darwin University, Australia

Dr. Sharina Abdul Halim, an environmental sociologist, appointed as Associate Professor at the Institute for Environment and Development (LESTARI), Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia. Currently, she holds the position of Deputy Director at the Institute for Environment and Development (LESTARI) starting from 2022 to 2025. Her research interests include islands and indigenous community development, sustainable livelihoods, tourism development, and heritage conservation. She is also research group leader for the Governance for Heritage Conservation (GAMAT) since 2019. She was part of the Editorial Board for Shima: The International Journal of Research into Island Cultures (2015-2021). Actively involved as a member of the National Geopark Implementation Committee (Malaysia) and a member of the Scientific and Technical Team for the Langkawi UNESCO Global Geopark since 2007. She is assigned as one of the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC) Lead Authors for Chapter 5 on the Special 1.5 degrees Report (2017-2018) and Chapter 10: Asia for the Working Group II contribution to the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report (AR6-WG2) (2019-2022).

Halim, S.A., Unjah, T., Ahmad, N., Komoo, I. 2022. Understanding Micro-experiences of Heritage Conservation in an Island-based Tourism Development: A Case of Kubang Badak BioGeoTrail, Langkawi UNESCO Global Geopark, Kedah, Malaysia. In: Abdullah, S.A., Leksono, A.S., Hong, SK. (eds) Conserving Biocultural Landscapes in Malaysia and Indonesia for Sustainable Development . Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-7243-9_8

Md Jahangir Alam, Nagarajan Rengasamy, Mohd Puat bin Dahalan, Sharina Abdul Halim, Tapan Kumar Nath. 2022. Socio-economic and ecological outcomes of a community-based restoration of peatland swamp forests in Peninsular Malaysia: A 5Rs approach. Land Use Policy, Volume 122, 106390, ISSN 0264-8377. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2022.106390.

Abdul Halim, Sharina. 2022. Engaging Community towards Ensuring Inclusivity in Sustainable Development Action. In: Goh Choo Ta, Mazlin Mokhtar, Mohamad Mahathir Amir Sultan (eds) For Now For Ever: Protect The Environment We Must. UKM Press, Bangi, Malaysia e-ISBN 978-967-251-763-4.

W. A. Amir Zal, Burhan Che Daud, Mustaffa Omar, Hood Salleh & Sharina Abdul Halim. 2022. Explaining community capital changes for Malaysian Negritos based on longitudinal panel study.  Community Development, 53:3, 309-325,DOI: 10.1080/15575330.2021.2007147

Shaw, R., Y. Luo, T.S. Cheong, S. Abdul Halim, S. Chaturvedi, M. Hashizume, G.E. Insarov, Y. Ishikawa, M. Jafari, A. Kitoh, J. Pulhin, C. Singh, K. Vasant, and Z. Zhang, 2022: Asia. In: Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. Contribution of Working Group II to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [H.-O. Pörtner, D.C. Roberts, M. Tignor, E.S. Poloczanska, K. Mintenbeck, A. Alegría, M. Craig, S. Langsdorf, S. Löschke, V. Möller, A. Okem, B. Rama (eds.)]. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK and New York, NY, USA, pp. 1457–1579, doi:10.1017/9781009325844.012.

Roy, J., P. Tschakert, H. Waisman, S. Abdul Halim, P. Antwi-Agyei, P. Dasgupta, B. Hayward, M. Kanninen, D. Liverman, C. Okereke, P.F. Pinho, K. Riahi, and A.G. Suarez Rodriguez, 2018: Sustainable Development, Poverty Eradication and Reducing Inequalities. In: Global Warming of 1.5°C. An IPCC Special Report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels and related global greenhouse gas emission pathways, in the context of strengthening the global response to the threat of climate change, sustainable development, and efforts to eradicate poverty [Masson-Delmotte, V., P. Zhai, H.-O. Pörtner, D. Roberts, J. Skea, P.R. Shukla, A. Pirani, W. Moufouma-Okia, C. Péan, R. Pidcock, S. Connors, J.B.R. Matthews, Y. Chen, X. Zhou, M.I. Gomis, E. Lonnoy, T. Maycock, M. Tignor, and T. Waterfield (eds.)]. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK and New York, NY, USA, pp. 445-538. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009157940.007.