Climate Change and Sustainable Development

Climate Change and Sustainable Development covers the climatic and atmospheric changes, greenhouse gases and their impact on eco-system, biodiversity, water resources, agriculture and food security, human health, extreme weather and environment across two sections. The mitigation and adaptation strategies involving sustainable development is also illustrated including efficient technology, renewable energy, developmental activities control and so forth. Nanotechnology for sustainable development, forest protection, environment, social and economic sustainability and climate change policy planning of international bodies like UNFCC, UNDP, Kyoto protocol is also included.

Features:

• Covers climate change fundamentals and its impact on different ecosystems and natural disasters
• Describes non-renewable energy aspects like fossil fuel, coal, oil, natural gas and so forth
• Explores sustainable development in terms of environment, social and economic aspects
• Includes species diversity and loss, agriculture productivity, water resources scarcity, health and environmental, rise in sea level and coastal area submergence
• Illustrates scientific hybridization of traditional ecological knowledge for enhancing climate change adaptation

This book is aimed at graduate students and researchers in engineering and public policy, engineering management, sustainable engineering, renewable energy engineering, environmental engineering, and sustainability.

M. H. Fulekar is a Senior Professor, Environmental Sciences and Joint Director (R&D), Center of Research for Development, Parul University, Gujarat, India. He worked as a Professor & Head, Life Sciences (Environmental Biotechnology), University of Mumbai (2002 to 2011) and as Senior Professor & Dean, School of Environment and Sustainable Development, Central University of Gujarat (2011-2019) & Director Central University of Gujarat. He also served as Vice-Chancellor (I/C), Central University of Gujarat, Gandhinagar. Fulekar possesses over 38 years of experience of in the research and teaching. He has published 350 numbers of research papers and articles in international and national journals of repute and has 2 patents in his credit. He is also an author of 15 books published by CRC, Springer, IK International, Oxford etc. He has guided 32 Ph.D. and 22 MPhil students in Environmental Biotechnology and Environmental Nanotechnology. As a Principal Investigator, he has completed Research Project: UGC, CSIR, BRNS, DBT R&D and Industrial projects. He was awarded ILO fellowship ILO/UNDP1985: ILO/FINNIDA; ILO/JAPAN. UGC – awarded BSR fellow (2018). He has achieved "Who’s Who" in Science and Engineering USA in 1998; and "Outstanding Scientist of the 20th Century" in 2000, from International Biographical Centre, Cambridge, England. He is also a member of New York Academy of Sciences, USA. He is recipient of Education Leadership Award and International award for Environmental Biotechnology. Recently he has been awarded as Eminent Educationist. He has worked in various capacities in University Administration. Area of Research Interest: Environmental Science; Environmental Biotechnology: Environmental Nanotechnology. As an expert, he visited USA, Australia, Singapore, Bangkok Thailand, Hong Kong, Nepal etc.

(born December 23, 1955) is serving as Vice-Chancellor of the Central University of Gujarat at Gandhinagar, India. He has also served as Vice-Chancellor of Tilka Manjhi Bhagalpur University, Bihar, and Guru Ghasidas University, Bilaspur in India. He holds M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Biochemistry from Banaras Hindu University. For over 45 years he has conducted pioneering research on environmental issues focusing on soil salinity, water stress, and metal toxicity effects on key metabolic alterations in plants and has characterized many novel proteins/enzymes associated with stress tolerance. His work on the role of antioxidative defence mechanisms in combating drought and metals-induced oxidative damage in crop plants has been well recognized. He has over 173 scientific publications with 18,000+ citations, h-Index 47 and i10- Index 113. He has guided 32 doctoral students and has worked as a visiting scientist in reputed laboratories of Sweden, Germany, and Japan. He is the recipient of several national and international awards in Environmental Biochemistry and Biotechnology like the BHU Medal in 1976, Young Scientist Award in 1982, Swedish Institute Fellowship in 1989, Japan Society for Promotion of Science Fellowships in 1998, 2005, INSA-German Academy of Science Exchange Program Nominations in 1997, 2003, 2007. He is a Fellow of the Indian Society of Agricultural Biochemists, Biotech Research Society of India, and Bio-Ved Research Society of India. He is serving on the editorial board of the Journal of Agronomy and Crop Science and the Indian Journal of Agricultural Biochemistry.