Urban Ecology

Dr. Pramit Verma is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium. He completed his PhD from the Institute of Environment & Sustainable Development, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi in 2021. He is currently working in the field of Urban Ecology. He has also worked in the field of urban climate disaster risk reduction and management. He has published several research articles and a technical report while participating in various national and international conferences, workshops and seminars. He is also working on the socioeconomic dynamics governing urban energy and urban land use in secondary cities of India. Dr. Pardeep Singh is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Environmental Science, PGDAV College, University of Delhi, in New Delhi, India. He obtained his PhD at the Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University) Varanasi. Dr. Singh has published more than 65 papers in international journals in the fields of waste management, environmental pollution, and agricultural nanotechnology, and has co-edited 30 books. Dr. Rishikesh Singh has completed his PhD from Institute of Environment & Sustainable Development, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi. His research interests are in soil carbon dynamics, land- use change and management, emerging agronomic practices, biochar and carbon sequestration. His current research assignment is based on environmental impact analysis of traditional and emergent agronomic practices in Indo-Gangetic Plains of India. He has published several research and review articles and is a reviewer of several international journals of Elsevier, Taylor and Francis and Springer Nature groups. Dr. A. S. Raghubanshi is a Professor of Environmental Science at Institute of Environment & Sustainable Development, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi. His research interests are in integrative ecology such as ecological understanding of the structure, functioning and sustainable management of tropical terrestrial ecosystems, landscape ecology using remote sensing and GIS tools, understanding plant diversity and distributions, ecosystem functioning including nutrient dynamics, greenhouse gas emissions and restoration of degraded ecosystems. He has published several research articles in various reputed international journals.

• Theme 1: Emerging facets of urban ecology – urban and urbanization, theory and concepts1. Urban ecology – current state of research and concepts2. Urban metabolism: old challenges, new frontiers and the research agenda aheadTheme 2: Urban land use/land cover3. Urban growth pattern detection and analysis4. Exposition of spatial urban growth pattern using PSO-SLEUTH and identifying its effects on surface temperatureTheme 3: Social-ecological systems5. Stressors of disaster-induced displacement and migration in India6. Ecological economics of an urban settlement: an overview7. Urban greenspace, social equity and human wellbeingTheme 4: Urban Environment8. Urbanization, urban agriculture and food security9. Carbon reduction strategies for the built environment in a tropical city10. Trends in active and sustainable mobility: experiences from emerging cycling territories of Dhaka and Innsbruck11. Air quality and its impact on urban environment12. Sustainable water management in megacities of the future13. Comparing invasive alien plant community composition between urban, peri-urban and rural areas; the city of Cape Town as a case studyTheme 5: Urban material balance14. Types, sources and management of urban wastes15. Nutrient recovery from the municipal waste stream: status and prospects16. Determinants of soil carbon dynamics in urban ecosystemsTheme 6: Cities: healthy, smart and sustainable 17. Urban ecology and human health: implications of urban heat island, air pollution and climate change nexus18. Cities management and sustainable development: monitoring and assessment approach19. Challenges in assessing urban sustainabilityTheme 7: Sustainable urban design 20. Towards sustainable urban redevelopment: urban design informed by morphological patterns and ecologies of informal settlements in cities21. Assessing the role of urban design in a rapidly urbanizing historical city and its contribution in restoring its urban ecology: the case of Varanasi, India22. 'Green building' movement in India: study on institutional support and regulatory support23. Challenges and innovations of transportation and collection of waste24. Critical assessment and future dimensions for the urban ecological systems