Hydro-Meteorological Extremes and Disasters

Chapter 1. Hydro-meteorological Extremes and Disasters: Integrated Risk, Remediation and Sustainability.- Chapter 2. Public Policy in Environment and Sustainability Strategies: Global & National Scenario.- Chapter 3. Title: Climate Finance at International and National level: Needs, Drivers and Sources.- Chapter 4. ECONOMIC IMPACTS OF HYDROCLIMATIC EXTREMES AND DISASTERS IN INDIA.- Chapter 5. Remote Sensing Applications in Drought Monitoring and Prediction.- Chapter 6. Disaster Early Warning Communication Systems.- Chapter 7. Spatial Data Infrastructure for suitable land identification for government projects.- Chapter 8. Role of Stable Isotopes in climate study - a multi-archive approach focusing on Holocene to Anthropocene records.- Chapter 9. Integration of Climate Model & Hydrology Model-Tools, Bias-Correction, Downscaling, & Future Focus.- Chapter 10. Analysis of Precipitation Extremes at the Intra-Seasonal Scale using a Regional Climate Model.- Chapter 11. Geospatial Big Data and its Applications.- Chapter 12. Quantitative Assessment of Impact of Climate Change on Crop Yield over Sikkim and Central Region of India.- Chapter 13. Understanding of future water challenges in a river basin under ensemble of CORDEX simulated projections.- Chapter 14. Drought as a disaster and its characterization over Central India.- Chapter 15. The Implications of Climate Change on Water Resources of Rajasthan.- Chapter 16. Thar Desert of India: Application of Geospatial Technology for Extreme Weather Events.- Chapter 17. Addressing Hydro-climatic Risks through Sectoral Planning: A case of National Agriculture Disaster Management Plan (NADMP).- Chapter 18. India's Health Adaptation Plan: Strategic Tool for Minimizing Disaster Related Losses and Damage.

Prof. Manish Kumar Goyal, is a Professor of Civil Engineering and Dean at the Indian Institute of Technology, Indore. Prof Goyal has 'i' index and 'h' index equal to 82 and 33, respectively, with total citations of 3324. He holds more than 100 refereed publications on different domains of GIS and remote sensing, water resources, climate change, hydrological and hydrodynamic modelling, soil carbon sequestration, anthropogenic changes, risk and resilience. He serves as an Associate Editor for several journals. His contribution fetched him Recipient of ASCE EWRI Visiting International Fellowship, Recipient of ASCE-Best Theoretical-Oriented Paper Award, Indo-US WARI Fellowship Award, DST-SERB Young Scientist-fast track grant, Inspire Faculty award, Erasmus Mundus Interweave Award, JSPS fellowship award and Canadian Commonwealth Scholarship Award

Prof. Anil Kumar Gupta  is a sustainability risk management strategist working in the area of disaster management, environment and climate resilience for more than 25 years with national, sub-national and business administrations. He is currently a full Professor and Head of India's National Institute of Disaster Management (NIDM) Division of Environment and Disaster Risk Management. He is Programme Director of the Centre for Excellence on Climate Resilience and implementing projects, viz. CAP-RES (with DST, under National Knowledge Mission on Climate Change), National Agriculture Disaster Management Plan (with Ministry of Agriculture & Farmer's Welfare). He was a recipient of Excellence Award by the Society of Environmental & Occupational Health, and bestowed with IDRC Canada's Thank Tank Initiative Senior Fellowship 2011 for policy research.




Dr. Akhilesh Gupta is presently Secretary of the Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB). Also, Dr. Gupta currently heads the Policy Coordination and Programme Management Division (PCPM) division and is