Agriculture and Climatic Issues in South Asia : Geospatial Applications

This book presents focussed information related to dynamic cropland transformation, agriculture development, climate change, and environment with the application of advance geospatial technology. It describes research using geospatial tools and techniques to develop the models, design, and planning for agricultural land use optimization especially in south Asian countries. It covers agriculture production, water scarcity, industrial development, natural resources, environmental degradation, and sustainable development.

Features:

• Provides the adaptation strategy from a multidisciplinary resilience perspective
• Addresses contemporary agricultural resilience to various climate change issues
• Develops novel approaches for sustainability with environmentally sound practices
• Discusses methodological and innovative approaches at local to global perspective
• Reports research using geospatial tools and techniques to develop the models, design, and planning for agricultural land use optimization

The book is aimed at researchers, professionals, and graduate students in GIS, environmental engineering, geography, agriculture, and climate studies.

Rukhsana Sarkar is an Assistant Professor and former Head of the Department of Geography at Aliah University, Kolkata. She has twelve years of teaching as well as research experience. She obtained her M.A., Ph.D. degrees in Geography from Aligarh Muslims University. She was awarded nine academic awards and fellowships like International Young Geographer Award 2009, the AMU-JRF award 2006-07, and UGC-RF 2007-2009 award, etc. Her specialization in research is agriculture development and planning, urban expansion and planning, environment, rural development, RS, and GIS. Presently she is working as project director on a major research project sponsored by ICSSR New Delhi, India.

Asraful Alam is an Assistant Professor and HoD at the Department of Geography, Serampore Girls’ College, University of Calcutta, West Bengal, India. He received his M.A. & Ph.D. degrees in Geography from Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh and Aliah University, Kolkata, India respectively and also completed PG Diploma in Remote Sensing & GIS. His research interests include Population Geography, Agricultural Geography, Climatology, Health Geography and Remote Sensing & GIS and Developmental Studies. He has authored jointly edited books entitled Habitat, Ecology and Ekistics: Case Studies of Human-Environment Interactions in India, Agriculture, Food and Nutrition Security: Case Study of Availability and Sustainability in India, Agriculture, Environment and Sustainable Development: Experiences and Case Studies, Life and Living through Newer Spectrum of Geography, Self-Reliance (Atmanirbhar) and Sustainable Resource Management in India, and Climate Change, Agriculture and Society - Approaches toward Sustainability. Dr. Alam has served as an Editorial Board Member in peer-reviewed International Journal of PLOS One, Earth Science, Scientific Journal of Health Science Research and Frontiers in Geochemistry.

Azizur Rahman Siddiqui received his M.Sc, M.Phil and D.Phil from Aligarh Muslim University. He also completed a postgraduate diploma in Geoinformation Science and Earth Observation specialization. Dr. Siddiqui enjoyed a university fellowship for two years and was appointed as a permanent lecturer in NREC P. G. College, Khurja Bulandshahar, C. C. S. University, Meerut in 1999 and later joined the Department of Geography, the University of Allahabad from 200. His specialization is in arid zone research, environmental geography, agricultural geography, urban geography, and the application of remote sensing and GIS in land degradation studies. He has published 50 research papers in peer-reviewed journals and is also the author of four books. He is the recipient of the Excellence Award for the year 2018 conferred by the University of Allahabad. He is the recipient of Dr. Sarvapalli Radha krishnan award conferred by didiji foundation (2022) and also recipient of bhugol Bhushan award conferred by deccan geographical society (2022).