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Hydro-Meteorological Extremes and Disasters

  • Covers all aspects of climate, extreme events & disaster risk management in atmosphere, biosphere & cryosphere
  • Elucidates latest evidence based approach in risk and vulnerability analysis
  • Suggest sustainability based solutions to adapt and mitigate disaster events

Part of the book series: Disaster Resilience and Green Growth (DRGG)

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
  2. Overview and Strategies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Hydro-meteorological Extremes and Disasters: Integrated Risk, Remediation and Sustainability

      • Fatima Amin, Anil Kumar Gupta, Syed Towseef Ahmad
      Pages 3-15
    3. Climate Finance at International and National Level: Needs, Drivers and Sources

      • Niranjan Padhan, Michael Islary, Anil Kumar Gupta
      Pages 33-44
    4. Economic Impacts of Hydroclimatic Extremes and Disasters in India

      • Amarnath Tripathi, Sucheta Sardar
      Pages 45-55
  3. Tools and Techniques

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 57-57
    2. Remote Sensing Applications in Drought Monitoring and Prediction

      • Ashutosh Sharma, Vijaykumar Bejagam, Manish Kumar Goyal
      Pages 59-85
    3. Spatial Data Infrastructure for Suitable Land Identification for Government Projects

      • Nikhil B. Khandare, Valmik B. Nikam, Biplab Banerjee, Arvind Kiwelekar
      Pages 103-119
    4. Geospatial BigData and Its Applications

      • Nilkamal P. More, Manisha Galphade, V. B. Nikam, Biplab Banerjee
      Pages 191-206
  4. Case Studies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 207-207
    2. Quantitative Assessment of Impact of Climate Change on Crop Yield over Sikkim and Central Region of India

      • Ankit Balvanshi, Vikas Poonia, H. L. Tiwari, Manish Kumar Goyal, Anil Kumar Gupta, Akhilesh Gupta
      Pages 209-223
    3. Understanding of Future Water Challenges in a River Basin Under Ensemble of CORDEX Simulated Projections

      • Brij Kishor Pandey, Vikas Poonia, Deepak Khare, Manish Kumar Goyal
      Pages 225-242
    4. Drought as a Disaster and Its Characterization over Central India

      • Vikas Poonia, Manish Kumar Goyal, Anil Kumar Gupta, Akhilesh Gupta
      Pages 243-263
    5. The Implications of Climate Change on Water Resources of Rajasthan

      • R. K. Goyal, Mahesh K. Gaur
      Pages 265-278

About this book

The edited book provides both fundamentals as well as key factors of climate change, extreme events and disaster risk management. It systematically describes the integrated risk of various hydro-meteorological extreme events. The book brings together broad range of topics including basic concepts, exposure, risk, resilience and vulnerability. In addition, it also analysis the impact of various disaster events on bio-diversity, local communities, ecosystem and agricultural food production. The motive is to define remediation strategies in the fields of resilient infrastructures, communication strategies and immediate public participation. The book is presented in four parts, where part 1 familiarizes with fundamentals of hydro-meteorological based disasters; Part 2 focuses on risk and vulnerability analysis; Part 3 focuses on risk remediation options; and part 4 suggests the role of sustainable planning framework on disaster risk management. This volume is of interest and use to professionals and researchers working in climate change, atmospheric sciences and disaster management.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Indore, India

    Manish Kumar Goyal

  • ECDRM Division, National Institute of Disaster Management, Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India, New Delhi, India

    Anil Kumar Gupta

  • Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, New Delhi, India

    Akhilesh Gupta

About the editors

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 the overall in charge of 5 National Missions at DST-- National Mission on Interdisciplinary Cyber Physical System, National Mission on Quantum Technology and Applications, National Super-computing Mission, National Mission on Strategic Knowledge for Climate Change and National Mission for Sustaining the Himalayan Ecosystem. A distinguished atmospheric scientist, Dr Gupta has to his credit over 200 research articles in National & International journals as well as proceedings. He is editor of 5 books and author of over 350 articles and nearly 1000 reports. He is a Fellow of Indian National Academy of Engineering (FNAE), Indian Meteorological Society (FIMS) and Association of Agro-meteorologists (FAAM).




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Softcover Book USD 169.99
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