This edited book offers coverage towards SDG 15 in particular, but it provides for all the SDGs in general. The book is an inclusive comprehension on ecosystem restoration and sustainability including agricultural and ecosystem resilience, the role of biodiversity, climate change and water resources, hydrological modelling, extreme events, disaster risk and management, sustainable policy making on disaster management. The world is facing diverse and severe challenges. Millions of people are suffering from the catastrophic effects of extreme disasters, climate emergencies, water and food insecurity, and the repercussions of COVID-19 pandemic. Ecosystems are essential players in people’s capacity to meet these challenges. Hence, managing them and protecting their resources in sustainable ways is crucial. The book ‘Ecosystem Restoration: Towards Sustainable and Resilient Development’ provides comprehensive information on fundamentals, approaches and latest developments in the field of ecosystem restoration, resilience and sustainability. This book is of interest to teachers, researchers, climate change scientists, and valuable source of reference to the professionals and students in the relevant disciplines. Besides, the book serves as additional reading for graduate students of water, ecology, restoration forestry, soil science, and environmental sciences. National and international ecological policy makers, scientists and planners will also find this to be a useful read.
Chapter
1. Ecological restoration: An Overview of Science & Policy
Regime.
Chapter
2. Lifestyle for Environment: Life Mission and Synergies
with Eco-restoration.
Chapter
3. Optimal Management of Potential Water and
Sediment Yield from Urban Hilly Watershed.
Chapter
4. Mainstreaming
Peri-Urban Ecosystems for Urban Resilience through Policy-Planning Framework:
An Opportunity Analysis for Indian Cities.
Chapter
5. Urban Forest and
Ecosystem Services Intercede Urban Habitat in Delhi.
Chapter
6. Restoration
and rejuvenation of rivers, streams and wetlands: Challenges and way
forward.
Chapter
7. Ecosystem services for Water Management: A review of
global approaches and experiences.
Chapter
8. Rejuvenation of Rivers in
India-A Case Study on efforts for Rejuvenation of River Ganga.
Chapter
9.
Rejuvenation of Kukrail Drain.
Chapter
10. Hydrological modelling using
HEC-HMS and estimation of the flood peak by Gumbels method of Hasdeo Basin,
Chhattisgarh, India.
Chapter
11. Comparing Runoff of NRCS-CN Method and
Observed Runoff Data A Case Study.
Chapter
12. Artificial neural network
models for rainfall-runoff modeling in India- studies from of Kolar and
Kuttiyadi River watersheds.
Chapter
13. Analysis of urbanization and
assessment of its impact on ground water & land use land cover using GIS
techniques Case study of Bhopal & Gurugram district.
Chapter
14.
Application of Water Accounting Plus Framework for the assessment of the
Water consumption pattern and Food security.
Chapter
15. Comparison of
Probability Distributions for Extreme Value Analysis and Predicting Monthly
Rainfall Pattern using Bayesian Regularized-ANN.
Chapter
16. An Indexing
Method for Evaluating Managerial Effectiveness of a Watershed Project and
Functional Involvement of Participant Organisations.
Chapter
17. Pathways to
build resilience towards the impact of climate change on the Indian
Sunderban.
Chapter
18. Eco-restoration for Climate Resilience and Disaster
Risk Reduction.
Chapter19. Ecosystems and Nature - Based Solutions (NbS) for
Health Protection and Epidemic Resilience.
Chapter
20. Fresh Water Ecosystem
Conservation for Social Protection, Business, and Local Economy.
Prof. Anil Kumar Gupta is a noted resilience and sustainability strategist, crisis management professional, and thought leader. Presently he is Head of Division, Director of Projects & COE, in-charge of International Cooperation and Advisory Services, and Full Professor of Policy-planning and strategies at Indias National Institute of Disaster Management at New Delhi. He is known for pioneering National and Sectoral planning, National human resource planning, ebA/ecoDRR & NBS, Adaptation strategies, and Consortium projects, in DRR and sustainability areas. He implemented projects of action research, policy-planning, advocacy, knowledge management, etc. with many international and national partners.
Prof. Manish Kumar Goyal is Professor of Civil Engineering and Dean of Infrastructure Development at Indian Institute of Technology, Indore, India. His research interests include climate change, environment, water resources, hydrology, biodiversity, Artificial intelligence and GIS-remote sensing applications.
Prof. S. P. Singh is among the top-notch Himalayan ecologists. His research systems range from the blade of a leaf to inherently fragile and disaster-prone landscapes. He along with his associates have studied almost all dimensions of the Himalayan forest ecosystems, including biomass and productivity, nutrient cycling, carbon sequestration, phenology, tree water relations, forest fire adaptation, and ecosystem services.
