Disaster Risk, Resilient Agriculture and Livelihood (eBook, PDF)

This volume discusses important issues associated with agricultural disaster risk, resilient agriculture, and livelihood. It highlights the role of sustainable development goals in reducing the impact of climate change on agriculture. The contributions found in this volume discuss methodological and innovative resilience approaches to various natural hazards including flood, landslide, environmental challenges, strategies of disaster risk management, livelihood, ecosystem services, and agricultural sustainability. It explores the relationship between climatic change and agricultural transforma...

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Asraful Alam is an Assistant Professor and Head of the Department of Geography, Serampore Girls' College, University of Calcutta, West Bengal, India. He received his MA and PhD degrees in Geography from Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh and Aliah University, Kolkata, India, respectively, and also completed a PG diploma in remote sensing and geographic information systems (GIS). Alam completed his post doctorate (PDF) from the Department of Geography, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India. Previously, he was an Assistant Coordinator in the PG Department of Geography, Calcutta Women's College, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India. Dr. Alam is one of the Project Directors of a collaborative major project on "Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana: An Impact Assessment in Relation to the Life of Women in Assam and West Bengal" sponsored by Indian Council of Social Science Research, Ministry of Education, New Delhi. His research interests include population geography, agricultural geography, climatology, health geography, remote sensing and GIS, and developmental studies. He has contributed various research papers published in various reputed national and international journals and edited book volumes. He has authored jointly edited books entitled Habitat, Ecology and Ekistics: Case Studies of Human-Environment Interactions in India, Agriculture, Food and Nutrition Security: Case Study of Availability and Sustainability in India, Agriculture, Environment and Sustainable Development: Experiences and Case Studies, Life and Living through Newer Spectrum of Geography, Self-Reliance (Atmanirbhar) and Sustainable Resource Management in India, and Climate Change, Agriculture and Society-Approaches toward Sustainability, Population, Sanitation and Health: A Geographical Study Towards Sustainability and Agriculture and Climatic Issues in South Asia Geospatial Applications. He was a convener in the National Seminar on Self-reliance (Atmanirbhar), Sustainable Development and Environment 25-26 March 2022 sponsored by the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) organized by the Department of Geography, Serampore Girls' College. Alam has served as an editorial board member in peer-reviewed international journals PLOS ONE, Earth Science, Scientific Journal of Health Science Research, and Frontiers in Geochemistry. Rukhsana is an Assistant Professor and former Head of the Department of Geography at Aliah University, Kolkata. She has 15 years of teaching as well as research experience. She obtained her MA and PhD degrees in Geography from Aligarh Muslims University. She was awarded nine academic awards and fellowships like International Young Geographer Award 2009, the AMU-JRF award 2006-07, and UGC-JRF 2007-2009 award, etc. She has published more than 40 papers at the national as well as international levels in reputed journals and 23 chapters in edited books. Dr Rukhsana has published eleven books and presented a number of research papers at national and international levels. She has attended XXV FIG International Congress 2014, Malaysia and ICGGS-2018, Thailand Bangkok. Dr Rukhsana has successfully completed three major research project sponsored by ICSSR, Ministry of Education, New Delhi, in the agriculture field. Four PhDs have been successfully awarded under her supervision. She has served as a reviewer for many reputed international journals. Her specialization in research is agriculture development and planning, urban expansion and planning, environment, rural development, RS, and GIS. She has completed various training programs, workshops from different organizations, and a number of training courses run by IIRS Indian Institute of Remote Sensing, ISRO, Department of Space, Govt of India. She is engaged in various professional activities and served the university in various posts. Presently she is working as project director on a major research project and project director of a collaborative major project also sponsored by Indian Council of Social Science Research, Ministry of Education, New Delhi.

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