A T M Nurul Amin is a Professor and Coordinator of Urban Environmental Management Program, School of Environment, Resources and Development, Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Thailand. Dr Amin was Division Chairman of Human Settlements Development at AIT during 1991-93. He is an economist specializing in the areas of Development Economics, Urbanization and Urban Environmental Planning. He has been a senior UN Fellow with the United Nations Centre for Regional Development (UNCRD), Nagoya, Japan and a Guest Editor of Regional Development Dialogue.