Overview
- Contributes toward the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030
- Enhances capacity building for policy makers in developing countries
- Discusses climate, environment and disaster-related issues in the field of geography
Part of the book series: Advances in Geographical and Environmental Sciences (AGES)
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Table of contents (27 chapters)
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Prof. R. B. Singh was Professor & Head of the Department of Geography at the Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi, Delhi, until February 2020. He is the first Indian and the second Asian elected as Secretary General & Treasurer of the International Geographical Union (IGU). At present, he is Chair of the Research Council for Scientific and Industrial Research — Central Food Technological Research Institute (CSIR-CFTRI), Government of India; a member of the International Science Council (ISC) Scientific Committee, elected as the President of the Earth System Science Section of the ISCA in 2019–2020. He has published 15 books, 35 edited volumes and more than 235 research papers. He has supervised 35 Ph.D. and 81 M. Phil students. He was awarded a fellowship by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) and has visited more than40 countries. The National Institution for Transforming India (NITI) Aayog, Government of India, invited him to be a member of the committee for preparing Vision India–2035.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Climate, Environment and Disaster in Developing Countries
Editors: Narayan Chandra Jana, R. B. Singh
Series Title: Advances in Geographical and Environmental Sciences
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-6966-8
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-16-6965-1Published: 02 February 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-16-6968-2Published: 03 February 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-981-16-6966-8Published: 01 February 2022
Series ISSN: 2198-3542
Series E-ISSN: 2198-3550
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXX, 522
Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations, 211 illustrations in colour
Topics: Natural Hazards, Climate, general, Geography, general, Environmental Geography, Sustainable Development, Computer Applications