Climate Change and Urban Environment Sustainability

This book covers the understanding on relationship between climate change, urban development, and environment sustainability with emphasis on relevant issues and challenges of urban environment sustainability. It deals with the concept of climate resilient urban development, effective implementation of climate change adaptation and mitigation actions to promote urbanization from a social, economic, and environmental perspective. Climate change is a critical issue and having serious concern. Understanding the mechanism of climate change and climate variability is an important aspect and requires monitoring in their regional perspectives.Smart and resilient urbanization are essential in tackling the growing threat of climate instability. Different analytical and practical approaches to foster resilience and environmental sustainability in urban areas covering the recent trends, developments and tools related to urban environment, sustainability, and climate change. There is a big demand of understanding on the relationship between climate change, urban environment sustainability due to fast urbanization and an urgent need for constructive and effective mechanism to protect the life and property of human being from expected or anticipated hazards and disasters. This book is of interest and useful to academicians, researchers, scientists, environmentalists, land resource managers, climate change scientists, forest administrators. Also, the book serves as a reference to researchers and students of agriculture, forestry, ecology, soil science, and environmental sciences. Policy makers will also find this to be a useful read.

Covers the evidence-based approach in Climate resilient urban development and sustainable urbanization Provides concepts and understanding of climate change and urban environment sustainability Includes case studies based on interlinkages of climate change urban development and environment sustainability

Auteur

Dr. Bhawana Pathak is working as Professor in School of Environment and Sustainable Development, Central University of Gujarat, Gandhinagar. She holds M.Sc. in Botany with Gold Medal from Kumaun University Nainital and Ph.D. in Plant Ecology from G. B. Pant Institute of Himalayan Environment and Development Kosi -Katarmal Almora. She has more than 18 years of Research and teaching experience in the specialized area of Environmental Ecology, Biodiversity Conservation, Environmental Biotechnology and Environmental Nanotechnology. She has contributed to development of curriculum for different courses and published more than sixty research papers/ scientific research articles, book chapters and also contributed as editor/ author of four books. She involves in innovative research work in the specialized area for implementation and future policies. She has also presented scientific papers in national and International Conferences and Seminars. She is a recipient of Outstanding Faculty award in Bio Science & Technology.

Dr. Rama Shanker Dubey (born December 23, 1955) is serving as Vice Chancellor of Central University of Gujarat at Gandhinagar, India. He holds M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Biochemistry from Banaras Hindu University. For over 45 years he has conducted pioneering research on environmental issues focusing on soil salinity, water stress and metal toxicity effects on key metabolic alterations in plants. He has over 173 scientific publications with 18,400+ citations, h-Index 47 and i10- Index 103. He has guided 32 doctoral students and has worked in many reputed laboratories of Sweden, Germany and Japan. He is recipient of several awards in Environmental Biochemistry and Biotechnology like BHU Medal in 1976, Young Scientist Award in 1982, Swedish Institute Fellowship in 1989, Japan Society for Promotion of Science Fellowships in 1998, 2005, INSA-German Science Academy Nominations in 1997, 2003, 2007. He is Fellow of Indian Society of Agricultural Biochemists and Biotech Research Society of India.

Contenu
Chapter 1Climate Change and Urban Environment Sustainability: Issues and Challenges.- Chapter 2Infrastructure, Energy Needs and Waste Management for Sustainable Urban Regions.- Chapter 3 Climate Change and Sustainable Urban Transport Environment.- Chapter 4 Importance of Climatological Inputs in the Green Infrastructure Design, Sustainable City Planning towards Better Urban Settlement.- Chapter 5 Methodology for Sustainable Urban Planning.- Chapter 6 Exploring Sustainable Food Systems for Urban Sustainability.- Chapter 7 Seagrasses in the Indian ocean region with special reference to urbanization.- Chapter 8 Water Quality Index: An Important Tool to Access Water Quality for Sustainable Development.- Chapter 9 Urbanization trends, Climate change and Environmental sustainability.- Chapter 10 Novel Technologies and Eco-friendly Lifestyle for Sustainable Cities.- Chapter 11 Spatial Analysis of Precipitation Climatology over India: Using satellite Remote Sensor.- Chapter 12 Timberline and Climate in the Indian Western Himalayan Region: Changes and Impact on Timberline Elevations.- Chapter 13 Design of Humanitarian Logistics Network Using Imperialist Competitive Algorithm.- Chapter 14 Impact of Climate Change Related Heat Stress on Thermophysiological Vulnerability Among Workers in Unorganized Sectors.- Chapter 15 Seagrass of Southeast Asia: Challenges, Prospects, and Management Strategies.- Chapter 16 Effect of Climate Change and Urbanization on Mangrove Ecosystems.- Chapter 17 Urbanization and climate change impact on habitat destruction and zoonotic species emergence.- Chapter 18 Roles of Community Resilience and Risk appraisal in climate change adaptation.