Environmental Risk and Resilience in the Changing World

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 Scientific Reports, etc. He...