Social Morphology, Human Welfare, and Sustainability

1-Environment, Society and Sustainability: A Human-Nature Interface.- 2-Social Welfare and Sustainable Development: Paradigm Shift.- 2-Ensuring Social Security for Child and the Elderly People.- 3-Geo-heritage and Geo-Ecotourism Conservation- Case Study.- 4-Resource Allocation and Sustainable Development.- 5-Welfare Schemes for Socially Vulnerable Segments.- 6-Population Growth, Poverty and Inequality.- 7-Illiteracy, Unemployment, Underemployment and Migration.- 8-Slums and Issues of Educational Sub-normality of Social Poor.- 9-Urbanization & Housing Affordability, Requirements of the Marginalized People.- 10-Gender Inequality, Women Health Issues and Women Empowerment.- 11-Climate Change and its Social Consequences and adaptation.- 12-Flood and its Impact on Human Livelihoods on Global South- Case study.- 13-Drought and its Associated Social Responses- Case study.- 14-Access to Basic Amenities, Healthcare Services and Mass Education.- 15-Sustainable Agriculture & Rural Development, Industrialization as a Source of Employment.- 16-Protection of Civil Rights, Transgender Equality, Vocal for Local and Ecofeminism.- 17-Conclusion.

Dr. Mohammad Izhar Hassan (b.1960) retired as a Professor of Geography from Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak, Haryana (India). After obtaining Ph.D. from JNU, New Delhi, he began his teaching career in the year 1991. His area of interest is population studies in geography. He has also served as Professor at Ravenshaw University, Cuttack (Odisha) during 2014-17 where he taught population geography to undergraduate as well as postgraduate students. During 2004-07, he availed UGC Research Award on a project entitled Demographic Situation in Odisha and its Development Implication. Nearly three dozen research scholars have obtained their Ph.D. / M.Phil. under his supervision. He has to his credit five books (the latest being Population Geography: A Systematic Exposition by Routledge in 2020, Climate Change and Bio-Diversity, Vol.1, Springer: Tokyo, Heidelberg, New York and London (2014) [ISBN 978-4-431-54837-9] - Landscape Ecology and Water Management, Vol.2, Springer: Tokyo, Heidelberg, New York and London, (2014) [ISBN 978-4-431-54870-6]) and more than 40 research papers published in journals of national and international repute. He is life member of several professional bodies/ societies including Indian Association for the Study of Population, Indian Regional Science Association, National Association of Geographers India, Institute of Indian Geographers, Geographical Society of India, Eastern Geographical Society etc.

 

Dr. Shouraseni Sen Roy received all her pre doctoral education from the University of Delhi, including BA, MA, and MPhil. She completed her PhD from the Arizona State University in 2005, and started as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography and Sustainable Development, University of Miami since 2018. Her core area of research over the last two decades has concentrated on expanding our understanding of long-term trends in climatic processes, in view of impending climate change. Her research