Climate Change, Extreme Events and Disaster Risk Reduction: Towards Sustainable Development Goals (Sustainable Development Goals Series)

Name: Climate Change, Extreme Events and Disaster Risk Reduction: Towards Sustainable Development Goals (Sustainable Development Goals Series)
Author: Suraj Mal, R.B. Singh, Christian Huggel
ISBN: 9783319564685

Suraj Mal, R.B. Singh, Christian Huggel

Language: English

Published by Springer 2018-01-05, 2018

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Series: Book 1 of 268 - Sustainable Development Goals

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Title: Climate Change, Extreme Events and Disaster Risk Reduction: Towards Sustainable Development Goals (Sustainable Development Goals Series)
Author: Suraj Mal, R.B. Singh, Christian Huggel
Publisher: Springer 2018-01-05
Publication year: 2018
Condition: New
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
ISBN 10: 3319564684
ISBN 13: 9783319564685
Series: Book 1 of 268: Sustainable Development Goals

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Dr. Suraj Mal (Chair, Biogeography and Biodiversity Commission, International Geographical Union) is Assistant Professor at Department of Geography, Shaheed Bhagat Singh College, University of Delhi. His areas of research interests include Himalayan Glaciology and Climatology, Remote Sensing of Glaciers, Glacial Hazards and Environmental Issues in Indian Himalaya. He has received the DAAD award for his short research stay at Hamburg University in Germany. Dr. Mal has published several research papers in international journals, often written together with Prof. Dr. R.B. Singh. He is co-editor of Springer Series on Sustainable Development Goals. He has co-edited a Springer volume on Climate Change, Glacier Response and Vegetation Dynamics in the Himalaya. He is also part of two international collaborative research projects in High Himalaya. Dr. Mal is a member of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences and National Association of Geographers, India.

Professor Dr. R.B. Singh (Vice-President, International Geographical Union (IGU)) is Professor since 2002 and Coordinator UGC-SAP-DRS III, Department of Geography, University of Delhi, India; Earlier served as UGC Research Scientist-C/Professor (1996-2002), UGC Research Scientist-B/Reader (1988-1996) and Lecturer (1985-1988); He is Springer Series Lead Editor of Advances in Geographical and Environmental Sciences and Sustainable Development Goals and IAP–Global Network of Science Academies representative on Disaster Risk Reduction.

He was awarded prestigious JSPS Research Fellowship at Hiroshima in 2013 and Several Travel Fellowships/ Support from UNEP, UNITAR,UNU, UNCRD, WCRP, IAHS, IGU, NASDA, INSA, UGC, SICI, MAIRS and Univ. of Delhi etc. for participating and presenting papers, Chairing session and discussing research projects in more than 30 countries. Prof. Singh has specialized in Environmental Studies, Climate Change, Urban Re

gional Development, Disaster Management, Remote Sensing and GIS. He has to his credit 11 Books, 33 edited research volumes and more than 200 research papers published in national and international journals. He was Special Series Editor of prestigious journals like Sustainability, Advances in Meteorology, Physics and Chemistry of the Earth. He was also associated with prestigious international collaborative research programs such as ICSSR-IDPAD, CIDA-SICI, DFID and Ministry of Agriculture. He was also associated with Nordic Inst. of Asian Studies, Copenhagen (also associated Denmark) in 1998 and Visiting Professor for delivering invited Lectures at the University of Turku (Finland). He was as one of the contributors in the famous -The World Atlas- Earth Concise, Millennium House Ltd., Australia.

Dr. Christian Huggel is at the Department of Geography, University of Zurich and head of the research group Climate & Environment: Impacts, Risks and Adaptation (Eclim). He focuses on climate impacts, risks and adaptation to climate change, mainly in mountain and high-mountain regions. His aim is to understand how climate and climate change affects environmental and socio-environmental systems, how these systems respond in the context of multiple drivers of change, and what changes can be attributed to climate change and other drivers. Dr. Huggel recognizes the importance to adequately approach these research fields from an interdisciplinary perspective. In his research he also studied glacier and other mountain hazards such as glacier lake outburst floods, avalanches and landslides; volcano-ice interactions; hazard, vulnerability and risk assessments; integrated monitoring and risk management such as early warning systems. His working experiences stretches from the European Alps, the Andes, Mexico, Alaska, the Caucasus, to Central Asia and the Himalayas.

Dr. Huggel was a Lead Author of the IPCC Working Group II 5th Assessment Report and has been a science advisor of the Swiss delegation at the UNFCCC Conference of Parties (COP). He is a past Chair and current member of the Advisory Board of the Standing Group on Glacier and Permafrost Hazards in Mountains (GAPHAZ) of the International Association of Cryospheric Sciences (IACS) and the International Permafrost Association (IPA), and past Chair and current member of the Executive Committee of the Joint Commission on Volcano-Ice Interactions of the International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth’s Interior (IAVCEI) and the International Association of Cryospheric Sciences (IACS). He is also a member of the Science Leadership Council of the Mountain Research Initiative (MRI) and a member of the Advisory Committee for Swiss Federal Environmental Research (OFU), member of the Swiss Humanitarian Aid Unit (SHA), and founder and co-coordinator of the University of Zurich / ETH Zurich Network for Interdisciplinary Climate Research. Dr. Huggel has authored and co-authored over 80 papers in about 30 different peer-reviewed international journals, reflecting a wide disciplinary range.

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