Environmental Risk and Resilience in the Changing World
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-031-62441-4 (ISBN)
This book provides huge knowledge and data in the fields of geospatial sciences, earth environmental sciences, humanities, and social sciences, which target a diverse range of readers, such as academics, scientists, students, environmentalists, meteorologists, urban planners, remote sensing, and GIS experts. Earth environment (ecological envelope of geosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere and cryosphere) faces a significant challenge from different risks and threats due to due to rapid changes in global land use, population increase and pollution. They might drastically impair the ecosystem's ability to maintain long-term service levels while bolstering the economic, social, and environmental pillars of sustainable development. Therefore, risk assessment (RA) has lately become a prominent research topic and a powerful mechanism for enforcing legal activities-related environmental restoration and health improvements to do sustainable development. The United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) first used the risk assessment approach in 1980, and since then, it has expanded and become standard practice in many areas of ecological research. Some practices are air quality assessment, land degradation assessment, natural hazards risk assessment, urban surface ecological health condition, wetland and forest health assessment and drinking water quality assessment. However, recently risk assessment alone is not sufficient to propose any sustainable management plans. Also, there is no universal strategy for conducting risk assessments, and insufficient expertise with the methodology may result in erroneous findings. Therefore, scientists are increasingly interested in developing resilience strategies with AI and geospatial-based risk assessment to lower environmental risk. Different resilience approaches make different assumptions about the system dynamics involved in resilience-based environmental risk and impact assessment. Therefore, this book seeks to showcase the most current advances in risk and hazards assessment of environments with resilience strategies to mitigate the prevailing environmental issues with the help of remote sensing, GIS, artificial intelligence, and state-of-the-art frameworks like PSR, VIOR, nature-based solutions.
Dr. Swapan Talukdar is an assistant professor at department of Geography, Asutosh College, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India. He has worked as Dr. D.S. Kothari Post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Geography, Faculty of Natural sciences, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi for the period of 20.09.2021-29.02.2024. Dr. Talukdar completed his PhD from the Department of Geography, University of Gour Banga, West Bengal, India in 2020. He served as the junior research fellow (JRF) during 2015-17 and senior research fellow (SRF) during 2017-19 in the Department of Geography, University of Gour Banga. Dr. Talukdar has completed two international projects (as Co-PI) in collaboration with the King Khalid University, Saudi Arabia. He has published more than 83 scientific research articles in journals of international repute such as Journal of Cleaner Production, Environmental Pollution, Scientific Reports, Ecological Indicators, Sustainable Cities and Society, etc. Also, one edited book has been accepted by Springer Nature. His main areas of research are urban environment, urban wetlands, natural hazards, remote sensing and AI and their applications in environmental management. He has served as review editor for Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, Frontiers in Environmental Science, Frontiers in Earth Science, and Frontiers in Water. He has served as a guest editor in sustainability journal (MDPI). He has served as a reviewer for many journals of Springer, Elsevier, Taylor and Francis, MDPI, and Frontiers.
Dr. Atiqur Rahman is a Professor of Geography at Dept. of Geography, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Jamia Millia Islamia. He completed B. Sc. (Hons.), M Sc., M Phil and Ph. D from Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh. His research interest is urban environmental management, water resources and use of remote sensing satellite data, GIS and GPS. He was Post-Doctoral Fellow (PDF) at UFZ-Centre for Environmental Research, Leipzig, Germany (1999). He was Co-PI of Indo-Germany DST-DAAD major project. He is the recipient of prestigious Young Scientist Project Grant Award (2001-2004) from Department of Science and Technology (DST), Govt. of India. He worked as one a member of Scientific Research Team of NASA funded UEM project on Urban Ecology and Sustainability (2004-2007). He is the Co-PI Indo-Canadian major research projects on Economic Transformation and Childhood Obesity funded by ICMR (India) and CHI (Canada) during 2010-2015. He was Co-PI of a major research project funded by Ministry of Environment and Forest, Govt. of India. He was the collaborating Scientist of another NASA funded major project on Impacts of Desert Urbanization on Climate using Remote Sensing and Numerical Modeling (2012-2015). Prof. Rahman has also done professional development initiative training on Climate Change and Its Impacts: Resilience and Adaptation to Changes in Precipitation, at Brown University USA (2010). He served as a Steering Committee (SC) Member (2009-2012) of Population and Environment Research Network (PERN), CISIN, Columbia University USA. He was the Advisor-Technical cum Consultant on Remote Sensing & GIS for the project (2013-18) in the PHFI & AIIMS, and Emory University, USA project. He also served as a Member, Governing Body (GB), of some colleges of University of Delhi as a University Nominee. He was the Faculty Coordinator, Inspired Teachers In-Residence Programme organized by the Office of the President of India at Rashtrapati Bhavan, New Delhi, 6-12 June, 2015. Prof. Rahman was Hony. Dy. Director, (Academic) of Jamia Millia Islamia, (2015-2018). Prof. Rahman is the Coordinator, UGC-DRS SAP-I, Special Assistance Programme (SAP-I), Department of Geography, JMI. Ten students have been awarded Ph. D degrees under his supervision. He has published 15 books and 150 peer reviewed research papers in the journals of international repute such as Applied Geography, Ecological Indicators, Urban Climate and Nature's Scientifi
A changing environmental landscape.- Impact of environmental risk on society.- Integrated risk mitigation and resilience measures.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 08.09.2024 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | GIScience and Geo-environmental Modelling |
| Zusatzinfo | XXIV, 318 p. 117 illus., 103 illus. in color. |
| Verlagsort | Cham |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 178 x 254 mm |
| Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie |
| Schlagworte | Artificial Intelligence • Artificial Intelligence and Data Science • Data Science • disaster • disaster management • ecological health • Ecological Vulnerability • Ecosystem services • Environmental Risk Management • Geospatial Technology • GIS • Livelihood Vulnerability • mitigation strategies • Natural Hazards • Remote Sensing • Resilience • risk assessment • Urban Heat Island |
| ISBN-10 | 3-031-62441-6 / 3031624416 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-3-031-62441-4 / 9783031624414 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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