This edited volume presents updated and significant contributions to the study of climate change and ecosystem services, with a strong focus on real-world case studies from diverse geographic regions, especially across Asia. The book explores how climate change affects the ecosystem services that support human well-being and economic stability, also highlights the need for conservation, sustainable land management and policy action to mitigate these impacts. Combining traditional environmental research with the latest advancements in satellite-based Earth observation and remote sensing, the book showcases innovative methods and applications for monitoring environmental changes. It emphasizes how remote sensing technologies can be used to track land use transformation, climate-induced changes, and ecosystem responses with greater accuracy. With contributions from internationally recognized researchers, this book will be a valuable resource for scientists, academics, graduate and postgraduate students, and professionals working in the fields of remote sensing, climate science, environmental studies, and natural resource management. It offers both theoretical insights and practical tools to address the urgent challenges of climate change and its impact on ecosystems worldwide.
Chapter 1: A Comprehensive Analysis: Climate Change, Groundwater
Contamination Pathways, and Health Risk Assessment Framework.
Chapter 2:
Climate Change and Sustainable Adaptation: An Analysis of the Effects of
Rainfall Variability on Wetland Ecosystems in Madhubani, Bihar, India.-
Chapter 3: Climate Change, Natural Disasters, and Migration Problems in the
South Pacific Region: A Systematic Review.
Chapter 4: Coastal local
communitys adaptation to Hazards: Empowering Resilience and Sustainability,
the case study in Red River Delta, Viet Nam.
Chapter 5: Heating the Planet:
The Nexus of Greenhouse Gases and Global Temperature.
Chapter 6: Ecosystem
service values (ESV), Random Forest classifier, Benefit transfer method
(BTM), Land use land cover (LULC.
Chapter 7: Land Use - Land Cover (LULC)
Dynamics and their Impact on Land Surface Temperature (LST) Changes: A Spatio
Temporal Analysis of Araria Town of Bihar, India.
Chapter 8: Assessment of
Urban Growth Development Using Geospatial Technique: A Case Study of Ayodhya
Municipal Corporation, India.
Chapter 9: The Interplay of Legislation and
Judicial Intervention in Safeguarding India & Forests: A Critical Analysis.-
Chapter 10: Spatiotemporal analysis of Human encroachment on wetlands: A
micro analysis of Aligarh.
Chapter 11: Importance of Urban Green Spaces for
Sustainable Planning-A Case Study of Noida City.
Chapter 12: Comparative
Analysis of Wetland Shrinkage in Urban and Rural Settings: Understanding
Driving Forces and Implications.
Chapter 13: Urban Green Spaces as Catalysts
for Environmental Pollution Mitigation: A Case Study of Kolkata Municipal
Corporation.
Chapter 14: Land-use and Land-Cover Dynamics in Mahananda River
Basin, West Bengal, India using geospatial technology.
Chapter 15: GIS-based
Micro Solar Power Plant Site Selection in Sundarban Delta of India: A Siting
Model for Sustainable Utility of Renewable Energy.
Chapter 16: Aggregating
Machine Learning and GIS for Flood Susceptibility Modelling on Agricultural
Land in Banda District, Uttar Pradesh.
Chapter 17: Analytical Hierarchy
Process (AHP) based Cyclone Coping Capacity Index of Bhadrak District,
Odisha, India Using Geospatial Techniques.
Chapter 18: Navigating Urban
Floods Risk Assessment: Insights from Hec-Ras and Mitigation Strategies.-
Chapter 19: Influence of Natural and Anthropogenic Factors on Mangrove
Ecosystem of Malappuram-Kozhikode Districts, Kerala.
Chapter 20: India, an
emerging role model for developing Tropical Cyclone Early Warning Systems.-
Chapter 21: Tidal Flats Wetland System of the Estuarine Coast in the Lower
Ganga Delta under Climatic Stress.
Chapter 22: Soil erosion assessment using
geospatial techniques: A case study of Kangsabati River Basin.
Chapter 23:
Geospatial Technique in Forest Fragmentation Analysis Using Earth Observation
Datasets.
Chapter 24: Impact of water ecosystem on soil erosion: A
sub-watershed analysis in Shahzad River watershed, Lalitpur, India, using
geospatial science.
Chapter 25: Spatio-Temporal Assessment of Agricultural
Drought in Punjab and Haryana: A Multi-index Approach.
Chapter 26: A Study
on Dynamics of East Kolkata Wetland from 1767 to 2024 Using Geospatial &
Historical Approach.
Chapter 27: Simulation and prediction of land use/land
cover changes using CA-Markov model: A case study of Bulandshahr district,
India.
Chapter 28: Effect of spatiotemporal dynamics of urban green spaces
(UGS) on above and below ground carbon storage.
Dr. Zeba Khanam is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow sponsored by the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) at the Centre for the Study of Regional Development (CSRD), Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi. Previously, she served as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography at Noida International University, where she was honored with the Best Researcher Award of the Year (2024). A Gold Medallist in her M.A., she was awarded the UGC Junior Research Fellowship in 2015 and completed her Ph.D. in Remote Sensing and GIS from Aligarh Muslim University. Her interdisciplinary research spans land management, micro-climate, human health, water management, and gender studies. She also contributed as a Research Assistant on a Ministry-sponsored GIS mapping project in Tamil Nadu. Dr. Khanam has published in Scopus and Web of Science journals, presented at numerous conferences, received the Best Paper Award at Delhi University (2019), and actively review for several reputed academic journals.
