Climate Change, Resilience and Ecosystem Services

Dr. Zeba Khanam is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow sponsored by the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) at the Centre for the Study of Regional Development (CSRD), Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi. Previously, she served as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography at Noida International University, where she was honored with the Best Researcher Award of the Year (2024). A Gold Medallist in her M.A., she was awarded the UGC Junior Research Fellowship in 2015 and completed her Ph.D. in Remote Sensing and GIS from Aligarh Muslim University. Her interdisciplinary research spans land management, micro-climate, human health, water management, and gender studies. She also contributed as a Research Assistant on a Ministry-sponsored GIS mapping project in Tamil Nadu. Dr. Khanam has published in Scopus and Web of Science journals, presented at numerous conferences, received the Best Paper Award at Delhi University (2019), and actively review for several reputed academic journals.

• Chapter 1: A Comprehensive Analysis: Climate Change, Groundwater Contamination Pathways, and Health Risk Assessment Framework.- Chapter 2: Climate Change and Sustainable Adaptation: An Analysis of the Effects of Rainfall Variability on Wetland Ecosystems in Madhubani, Bihar, India.- Chapter 3: Climate Change, Natural Disasters, and Migration Problems in the South Pacific Region: A Systematic Review.- Chapter 4: Coastal local community’s adaptation to Hazards: Empowering Resilience and Sustainability, the case study in Red River Delta, Viet Nam.- Chapter 5: Heating the Planet: The Nexus of Greenhouse Gases and Global Temperature.- Chapter 6: Ecosystem service values (ESV), Random Forest classifier, Benefit transfer method (BTM), Land use land cover (LULC.- Chapter 7: Land Use - Land Cover (LULC) Dynamics and their Impact on Land Surface Temperature (LST) Changes: A Spatio – Temporal Analysis of Araria Town of Bihar, India.- Chapter 8: Assessment of Urban Growth Development Using Geospatial Technique: A Case Study of Ayodhya Municipal Corporation, India.- Chapter 9: The Interplay of Legislation and Judicial Intervention in Safeguarding India & Forests: A Critical Analysis.- Chapter 10: Spatiotemporal analysis of Human encroachment on wetlands: A micro analysis of Aligarh.- Chapter 11: Importance of Urban Green Spaces for Sustainable Planning-A Case Study of Noida City.- Chapter 12: Comparative Analysis of Wetland Shrinkage in Urban and Rural Settings: Understanding Driving Forces and Implications.- Chapter 13: Urban Green Spaces as Catalysts for Environmental Pollution Mitigation: A Case Study of Kolkata Municipal Corporation.- Chapter 14: Land-use and Land-Cover Dynamics in Mahananda River Basin, West Bengal, India using geospatial technology.- Chapter 15: GIS-based Micro Solar Power Plant Site Selection in Sundarban Delta of India: A Siting Model for Sustainable Utility of Renewable Energy.- Chapter 16: Aggregating Machine Learning and GIS for Flood Susceptibility Modelling on Agricultural Land in Banda District, Uttar Pradesh.- Chapter 17: Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) based Cyclone Coping Capacity Index of Bhadrak District, Odisha, India Using Geospatial Techniques.- Chapter 18: Navigating Urban Floods Risk Assessment: Insights from Hec-Ras and Mitigation Strategies.- Chapter 19: Influence of Natural and Anthropogenic Factors on Mangrove Ecosystem of Malappuram-Kozhikode Districts, Kerala.- Chapter 20: India, an emerging role model for developing Tropical Cyclone Early Warning Systems.- Chapter 21: Tidal Flats Wetland System of the Estuarine Coast in the Lower Ganga Delta under Climatic Stress.- Chapter 22: Soil erosion assessment using geospatial techniques: A case study of Kangsabati River Basin.- Chapter 23: Geospatial Technique in Forest Fragmentation Analysis Using Earth Observation Datasets.- Chapter 24: Impact of water ecosystem on soil erosion: A sub-watershed analysis in Shahzad River watershed, Lalitpur, India, using geospatial science.- Chapter 25: Spatio-Temporal Assessment of Agricultural Drought in Punjab and Haryana: A Multi-index Approach.- Chapter 26: A Study on Dynamics of East Kolkata Wetland from 1767 to 2024 Using Geospatial & Historical Approach.- Chapter 27: Simulation and prediction of land use/land cover changes using CA-Markov model: A case study of Bulandshahr district, India.- Chapter 28: Effect of spatiotemporal dynamics of urban green spaces (UGS) on above and below ground carbon storage.