Urban Health Risk and Resilience in Asian Cities

Systems Approach for Climate Change Impacts on Urban Health: Conceptual Framework, Modeling and Practice.- "SITE" (Societal-Institutional-Technical-Economic) Valuation framework : A case of drinking water facilities and services in slum areas of Hyderabad region.- Inequalities in access to water and sanitation: a case of slums in major states of India.- Chennai floods 2005, 2015: vulnerability, risk and climate change.- An environmental study of solid waste management system in of Chandrapur city, Maharashtra, India.- Linkages between Purdah Practice, Women Autonomy and Their Health Beliefs in India.- Development of urban heat island and its relation to heat waves.- Growing urbanization, health infrastructure and vector-borne diseases: A study in Khammam municipal corporation, Telangana state.- Maternal Reproductive Health: A Comparison between India and Empowered Action Group States.- Research Frontiers in Water, Environment and Human Health.- Impacts of resource consumption and waste generation on environment and its impact on human health: A study based on ecological footprint analysis.- The Impact Of Climate Change On Human Eyes.- Health and Well-being of Ageing Population in India: A Case Study of Kolkata.- Noise pollution and its consequences on urban health in Sylhet city.- Health Scenario in Delhi - Status and Recent Trends of Vector Borne and Water Borne Diseases in NCT of Delhi.- Quality of living, health and wellbeing of slum dwelling women domestic workers in Kolkata.- Urban Growth and Environment and Health Hazards in Kathmandu Valley, Nepal.- Impact of Urbanisation on Megacities' Lakes Using Remote Sensing Technique - A Case Study of Water Quality Analysis in Ambattur Lake, Chennai, India.- Impacts of urbanization of ground water pollution - an emerging issue and some suggestions.- Evaluation of mass rapid transit system : A case study of Delhi.- The

Prof. R.B. Singh is a professor of geography at Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi; the Secretary General and Treasurer of the International Geographical Union (IGU); the chair of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) - Central Food Technological Research Institute, the Government of India; and a member of the International Council of Science (ICSU) and the scientific committee on Urban Health and Wellbeing. He was awarded the prestigious Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Research Fellowship and has presented papers and chaired sessions in more than 40 countries. He has published 14 books, 35 edited research volumes and more than 215 research papers in national and international journals (e.g. Climate Dynamics, Current Science, Advances in Meteorology, Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Agriculture, and Ecosystem and Environment). He is the editor of the Springer series Advances in Geographical and Environmental Sciences and Sustainable Development Goals.

 

Professor B. Srinagesh is a professor of geography at Osmania University, Hyderabad. He has a total of 17 years of research experience and has published numerous papers. He was the principal investigator for a major project on Globalization, Climate Change and its Impact on Health - Health Mapping of Andhra Pradesh, sponsored by the University Grants Commission (UGC) 2010-2013 and was awarded a UGC postdoctoral fellowship for 2015-2017. He organised the IGU India Conference on Urban Health and Wellbeing as well as the Committee on Data for Science and Technology (CODATA) Training Programme for young South Asian researchers with the support of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

 

Dr Subhash Anand is currently an associate professor of geography at the Department of Geography, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi. With over 20 years of teaching and research experience, he has published four books, as well as