Recent Advances in Civil Engineering for Sustainable Communities / Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering Bd.459 (PDF)

Prof. N. Vinod Chandra Menon has worked as Professor in the Centre for Disaster Management at the Yeshwantrao Chavan Academy of Development Administration (YASHADA), Pune. He has worked as Incharge of Emergency Preparedness and Response in UNICEF India Country Office in New Delhi. He is currently Adjunct Professor at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, India; President of RedR India; and Regional Director of Asia of the International Emergency Management Society (TIEMS) Oslo. Prof. Menon has over 37 years of working experience, of which more than a quarter century has been in the fields of disaster risk reduction, climate change adaptation, and public policy analysis. He was Member of the High-Powered Committee (HPC) on Disaster Management established by the Government of India in 1999. He is also one of the founder members of the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), Government of India, chaired by the Prime minister of India, and he served in this capacity from 2005 to 2010.

Dr. Sreevalsa Kolathayar pursued M.Tech. from IIT Kanpur, Ph.D. from IISc, and served as International Research Staff at UPC Barcelona Tech Spain. He is Associate Professor at the Department of Civil Engineering, National Institute of Technology Karnataka (NITK) Surathkal, India. He has authored five books, edited twelve books, published over 100 research articles, and holds two patents. He is on the Editorial Board of several international journals. In 2017, The New Indian Express honored him with South India's Most Inspiring Young Teachers Award. He received the ISET DK Paul Research Award from the Indian Society of Earthquake Technology for the best Ph.D. thesis on Earthquake Risk Reduction in India. He received the "IEI Young Engineers Award" from The Institution of Engineers (India) in 2019. He is on the roster of two technical committees of ASCE Geo-Institute and is Member of the Working Groups of BIS CED 39 for three IS codes. Dr. Sreevalsa has eight funded R&D projects and