Environmental Engineering for Ecosystem Restoration

Prof. N. Vinod Chandra Menon has worked as Professor in the Centre for Disaster Management at the Yeshwantrao Chavan Academy of Development Administration (YASHADA), Pune. He has worked as Incharge of Emergency Preparedness and Response in UNICEF India Country Office in New Delhi. He is currently Adjunct Professor at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, India; President of RedR India; and Regional Director Asia of The International Emergency Management Society (TIEMS) Oslo. Prof. Menon has over 37 years of working experience, of which more than a quarter century has been in the fields of disaster risk reduction, climate change adaptation, and public policy analysis. He was a Member of the High-Powered Committee (HPC) on Disaster Management established by the Government of India in 1999. He is also one of the Founder Members of the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), Government of India, chaired by the Prime Minister of India, with the status of a Union Minister of State inthe Government of India and he served in this capacity from 2005 to 2010.Dr. Sreevalsa Kolathayar pursued M.Tech. from IIT Kanpur, Ph.D. from IISc, and served as International Research Staff at UPC Barcelona Tech Spain. He is Professor Incharge Institute Innovation Council and Associate Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, National Institute of Technology Karnataka (NITK) Surathkal, India. He has authored five books, edited twelve books, published over 150 research articles, and holds two patents. He is on the Editorial Board of several International Journals. He is on the roster of two technical committees of ASCE Geo-Institute and is Member of the Working Groups of BIS CED 39 for three IS codes. Dr. Sreevalsa has eight funded R&D projects and completed over 50 civil engineering consultancy projects.Dr. K. S. Sreekeshava is currently working as Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Civil Engineering, Jyothy Institute ofTechnology, Bengaluru. He obtained Ph.D. from BMS College of Engineering, Visvesvaraya Technological University, Belagavi, in the year 2020. His research interests are in the field of masonry structures, bio-composites, and structural design. He has published more than 30 research articles in reputed journals, Elsevier and Springer publishing houses. He has successfully coordinated funded AICTE-ISTE and AICTE Teaching And Learning (ATAL) Academy Sponsored Faculty Development Programme. He has the honors of life member of ISET, ISTE, ICI, INSC, NICEE, and IAENG. He has successfully completed the research funding grant under competitive research funding scheme initiated under scheme of TEQIP by Visvesvaraya Technological University, Belagavi. Dr. Sreekeshava is the organizing chair of G20 C20 International Conference on Interdisciplinary Approaches in Civil Engineering for Sustainable Development (IACESD 2023).

• Environmental Engineering for Ecosystem Restoration- An Introduction.- Trends and Environmental Impact of Paper Consumption: A Prognostic Scenario for the Indian Market by 2030 - A Case Study.- An Experimental Study on Optimal Evaluation and Operational Conditions of Thermal Energy Storage Systems in Green Building.- Assessment of Health Risks Associated with Long Term Environmental Noise Exposure in Silence Zones of Delhi City.- Strategies of Passive Design Buildings in Cold and Arid Climates: A Review.- Gis-based Assessment of Groundwater Quality and Suitability for Drinking Purposes in Smart City Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India.- Spatiotemporal Variability of Short-term Meteorological Drought for Semi-arid North Gujarat Region, India.- Reservoir Induced Spatio-temporal Changes in Land- Use/Land-cover Pattern of Bagalkot Due to Submergence Using Remote Sensing and GIS.- Assessment of Drought Vulnerability Using Meteorological Drought Index in Shimsha Basin.- Landslide Vulnerability in theSangu-matamuhuri River Basin of Southeast Bangladesh.- Spatio-temporal Trend of Monthly and Annual Rainfall in Mahi Lower River Basin, Gujarat, India.- Drainage Morphometric Analysis of a Challakere Watershed Using Remote Sensing and Geographical Information System.- Electrochemical Systems for Degradation of Colored Compounds from Textile Industry Effluent.- Contemporaneous Adsorption Analysis for Removal of Dyes from Multi-dye System.- Competitive Adsorption Analysis for Removal of Methyl Orange and Rhodamine-b Dyes Using Fixed- Bed Carbon Column.