This book offers an integrated understanding of how cities experience and respond to rising climatic stress. Bringing together advanced geospatial analysis, environmental assessment, and public-health insights, it highlights how heat, pollution, land-use change, and hydrological disruptions shape urban well-being. This book adopts a multidisciplinary approach, presenting new evidence from diverse Indian cities to reveal emerging patterns in urban heat islands, air composition, groundwater vulnerability, and health risks. Designed for researchers, practitioners, and students in urban studies, climate science, health, and planning, it supports decision-making, risk assessment, and climate-resilient urban management.
Part 1: Urban Heat Island (UHI) studies.- Quantifying adverse impacts of
urban heat island on human health and environment.- Spatio-temporal analysis
of surface urban heat islands of Kolkata metropolitan area using thermal
remote sensing.- Examining the impact of urban sprawl on urban heat island in
Pune, India: A comprehensive geospatial analysis.- Dynamics of urban heat
island with precipitation events.- Impact of biophysical factors on thermal
environment: A geospatial analysis on Kolkata municipal corporation, India.-
Temporal variations in emerging urban heat islands of India: A case study on
land surface temperature dynamics and its relationship with urban green
spaces.- Part 2: Urban environmental dynamics.- Assessment of land use land
cover dynamics and its impact on groundwater potential zone using AHP and
geospatial techniques in the Jhargram municipality, West Bengal.- Urban air
composition in India.- Tracing urban footprints and connectivity in Barasat:
A spatio-temporal study of growth and road network dynamics.- Part 3: Urban
health challenges.- Urban thermal comfort: A bibliometric analysis.-
Unravelling the urban health puzzle: Navigating the nexus of lifestyle,
disease, and community well-being.- A study on dengue out-break and its
management by civic workers in Dum Dum municipality, West Bengal, India.-
Urbanization and challenges for global health and the epidemiology of
emerging infectious diseases.- Part 4: Environmental influences on urban
health.- Unraveling and understanding local perceptions of water body quality
and its impact on local community health: A cross-sectional study of Duttabad
slum, Bidhannagar, West Bengal.- Air pollution and its impact on the healthy
respiration process: A study on the four wards of Bidhannagar municipality.-
Assessing urban health risks in Indian metropolises: A case study of
environmental challenges and health risks in Delhi, India.
Dr. Kasturi Mukherjee is an Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Geography at Adamas University, Kolkata, with over a decade of experience in teaching, research, and academic leadership. She holds a Ph.D. in Geography from the University of Calcutta, with research focusing on urban land-use change, urban environmental quality, and geospatial applications in sustainability and public health. A Gold Medalist in her postgraduate studies, she has served as a Visiting Researcher at the Stockholm Resilience Centre and as Adjunct Faculty at Digital University Kerala. Her work is widely published in reputed international journals and edited volumes, and she actively contributes as an editor, reviewer, and resource person in national and international academic forums, with strong expertise in remote sensing, GIS, urban studies, and climatesociety interactions.
Dr. Bhadra received his masters degree in Geography, an M.Phil. degree in Oceanography and Coastal Management, and Post Graduate Diploma in Remote Sensing and GIS. He did his Doctoral research on Hydrology and Water Resource Management from Jadavpur University and received a Newton-Bhabha Fellowship to attend a Ph.D. internship at the University of Edinburgh, UK. His research interest includes fluvial geomorphology, hydrology, water resource management, climate change impact assessment, remote sensing, GIS applications, etc. In 2022, he received the prestigious Core Research Grant from the Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), DST as PI.
Prof. (Dr.) Jitendra K. Pandey completed his Ph.D. in Chemistry (Polymer Science), in 2007 from National Chemical Laboratory-Pune. His research areas are in Bio/Nanocomposites, degradation, and stabilization of polymer composites, nano-material for water treatment, synthesis, characterization, and analysis of reinforced composites. He has 70+ Research articles, 6 Books, and 17 Patents to his credit. He has been associated with Research and Development in Adamas University, University of petroleum and energy studies Dehradun, Manav Rachna University, Brain Pool Fellow Seoul National University, South Korea, The University of Tokushima, Japan, Max Planck Institute of Colloid and Interfaces, Glom Germany in various roles.
Dr. Pratik Dash is currently working as an assistant professor in the Department of Geography, at Khejuri College. He had more than twelve years of research experience including more than seven years of teaching experience. He is expertise in remote sensing and GIS, disaster management and policy, hydrological modeling, flood modeling, etc. He has published several articles in Scopus-indexed journals and books.
Dr. Rajib Sarkar is a geographer who has completed his graduation, post-graduation, and Ph.D. from the University of Burdwan. He completed his post-graduation in Geography in 2007 with a specialization in Advanced Geomorphology. He joined as a junior research fellow (CSIR-UGC) in 2011 and was awarded Ph.D. in 2016. He also completed his Post Graduate Diploma in Applied Remote Sensing and GIS from Jadavpur University in 2013 and his Post Graduate Diploma in Urban Management and Planning in 2017. Prior joining to as an assistant professor at Adamas University, he acted as a guest faculty and resource person at Jadavpur University, Kalyani University, and Diamond Harbor Womens University. Dr. Rajib Sarkar is currently working on applications of Remote Sensing and GIS in urban planning and management. He has also an interest in Urban Growth Modeling (UGM), Geostatistics.
