Climate Change and Socio-ecological Transformation: Vulnerability and Sustainability

This book focuses on various psycho-social and socio-physical aspects of climate change and includes a wide range of case studies. Included topics are notable climate-related social thinking; climate vulnerability; transformation in socio-ecological subsystems; bioclimatological, urban bioclimatological and socio-bioclimatic ideas; disasters; policy instruments; climate justice; human rights; and sustainability. The book distinguishes itself from similar works by including a wide variety of topics and assists policy management in the current and upcoming climate crisis era. This book also addresses the Sustainable Development Goals 13 (Take Urgent Action to Combat Climate Change and Its Impacts), highlighting resilience, recovery potential and adaptive capacity, climate change measures integrated into policies and planning, and knowledge and capacity to mitigate climate change.

The ideas covered in this book evolved in response to the current climate crisis, ideas that the authors believe will aid in societal management and development in the present and future. The book is a useful source for planners, geographers, professionals, academics, government officials, laypeople, and others interested in climate change.

Mr. Malakar is a young researcher, GIS analyst, geographer, and socio-ecological demographer. He currently works as a doctoral researcher in the Department of Geography at the Central University of Haryana in India. He received his master's degree in geography from Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi. He has attended over 150 conferences, workshops, seminars, and webinars in his research area and has published research articles in national and international journals. He is a journal reviewer and a member of the Human Development and Capability Association (HDCA), Unequal World and International Society for Urban Health. His research interests include climate change and socio-ecological transformation, disaster and risk studies, and geospatial technology.

Manish Kumar currently works as an assistant professor in the Department of Geography, School of Basic Sciences, Central University of Haryana, Mahendragarh, India. Earlier, from January 2016 to February 2020, he servedas an assistant professor in the Department of Geography, Kalindi College, University of Delhi. Prior to that, from January 2009 to December 2014, he was a lecturer in the M.Sc. remote sensing and GIS course of Kumaun University, Nainital, India. He has also worked as a research associate in the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) project on “rurbanization”. In addition, he has been a visiting faculty member at the School of Planning and Architecture, Delhi. He holds a Ph.D. degree from Kumaun University and a postgraduate diploma in remote sensing and GIS from the Indian Institute of Remote Sensing (IIRS) of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), Dehradun. He is also a steering member of the International Geographical Union (IGU) Commission on Modeling Geographical Systems. He has published more than 25 research papers in various national and international Science Citation Index and Scopus-indexed journals. His special area of research interest includes the applicationof remote sensing and GIS in urban and regional planning, land use and land cover dynamics, and urban climate change, among others.

Prof. Subhash Anand has been a professor of geography at the Department of Geography, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi, since 2015. He has more than 25 years of experience in teaching and research, and he has authored and edited 7 books, including Water Science and Sustainability, Global Geographical Heritage, Geoparks and Geotourism and Urban Health Risk and Resilience in Asian Cities, all published by Springer. He is a Springer series editor of Advances in Geographical and Environmental Sciences. He has also published more than 70 research papers, articles, and chapters in various books and journals. He led the Indian delegation to Hiroshima University, Japan, under the Indo-Japan Joint Research Program. He has supervised 6 Ph.D. and 7 M.Phil. theses. He has traveled widely to participate in international conferences and lectures in many countries, and he is a vice-chair of the Commission on Geoheritage, International Geographical Union (IGU); an associate editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Geoheritage and Parks (Elsevier); he is the treasurer of the governing body of Dyal Singh College. During his career, he has been honored with many prestigious awards.

Dr. Kuzur is an assistant professor in the Staff Training and Research Institute of Distance Education (STRIDE) of the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), New Delhi. Prior to joining IGNOU, she was an assistant professor in the Department of Geography, Central University of Haryana. She has taught at the Women’s College of the University of Calcutta; Nirmala College of the Ranchi University; and Shaheed Bhagat Singh Evening College of the University of Delhi. She has also worked as a research associate at the Institute for Studies in Industrial Development (ISID), New Delhi, and as a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for the Study of Regional Development (CSRD), Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi. She holds her Ph.D. degree from JNU. She has been a recipient of various international and national fellowships and awards. She has published 1 book, 8 research papers in national and international journals, and 5 chapters in edited books. Her areas of specialization are social exclusion and socio-spatial deprivation in education among tribes, climate, and gender geography. She has contributed to and made academic presentations in various national and international seminars in India as well as in the UK, Poland, and the Netherlands.