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This edited book offers coverage towards Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 15 in particular, but it provides for all the SDGs in general. The book covers 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, and sustainable policymaking 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 the 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. 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.
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 Gumbel's 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
Chapter 19. 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 India's National Institute of Disaster Management in 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 a Professor of Civil Engineering and Dean of Infrastructure Development at the 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 has 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.
