Geomorphic Risk Reduction Using Geospatial Methods and Tools / Disaster Risk Reduction (PDF)

space. He is also interested in the applications of remote sensing and GIS in geo-hazard modelling and management. He has more than 7 years of teaching and research experience. His name has been listed in the top 2% of world scientists (2021, 2022 &2023) published by Stanford University, USA. He has guided many Ph.D. scholars in the field of geo-hazard management. More than 36 students have completed their dissertations under his guidance at the post-graduate level. He has published 72 peer-reviewed research papers in international journals of Elsevier, Springer, Taylor and Francis and the Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI). He has also published 5 book chapters. He is a reviewer of research articles assigned by leading international journals such as the Journal of Cleaner Production, Science of the Total Environment, Environmental Development and Sustainability, Geocarto International, Geomorphology, etc.







Dr. Basanta Raj Adhikari is working as a director at the Centre for Disaster Studies, Institute of Engineering, Tribhuvan University, Nepal, and is also an assistant professor of engineering geology in the same university. Moreover, he is also a high-level foreign associate professor at Sichuan University, China and Guest Professor at Keio University, Japan. Dr. Adhikari has a research interest in the tectonics of the Himalaya, climate change, hill-slope movement and human interaction, Himalayan sediment flux generation and disaster risk reduction. He is the author of more than 50 scientific articles and book chapters and has received various expressions of recognition for his work in the field of earth science including Young Scientist (Integrated Research on Disaster Risk), "young affiliates" (The World Academy of Sciences) and Sichuan 1000 Talents (Sichuan Province, China). Currently, he serves as an editor of the Journal of Coastal and Riverine Flood Risk and the thematic article collections of Environmental Change Driven by Climate Change, Tectonism and Landslide.



Dr. Rajib Shaw is a professor in the Graduate School of Media and Governance of Keio University, Japan. He is also a distinguished professor in the Institute of Disaster Management and Reconstruction (IDMR) of Sichuan University and Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati and Indian Institute of Science (IISc). He did his studies in Yokohama National University and Osaka city University in Japan and University of Allahabad and Burdwan University of India. He is a co-founder of a Delhi-based social entrepreneur startup, the Resilience Innovation Knowledge Academy (RIKA), and the chair of the board of two Japanese non-government agencies: SEEDS Asia and CWS Japan. He is the co-chair of the Asia-Pacific Scientific and Technical Advisory Group (AP-STAG). He is also the coordinating lead author (CLA) for the Asia chapter's 6th Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Professor Shaw has published 65 books and over 400 research papers in the field of environment, disaster management and climate change. Professor Shaw is the recipient of "Pravasi Bharatiya Samman Award (PBSA)" in 2021 for his contribution in education sector. PBSA is the highest honor conferred on overseas Indian and person of Indian origin from the President of India. He also received United Nations Sasakawa Award in 2022 for his lifetime contributions in the field of disaster risk reduction.