Professor Dr. Md. Nazrul Islam is a Professor at the Department of Geography and Environment in Jahangirnagar University, Savar, Dhaka-1342, Bangladesh. Prof. Nazrul has completed his Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo, Japan. Besides, he has completed Two Year Standard JSPS Postdoctoral Research Fellow from the University of Tokyo, Japan. His fields of interest are environmental systems modeling, climate change impact on aquatic and marine ecosystem especially phytoplankton transition, harmful algae by coupling hydrodynamics numerical model on coastal seas, bays and estuaries etc. Prof. Nazrul has made more than 40 scholarly presentations in more than 20 countries around the world, authored more than 110 peer-reviewed articles and authors of 10 books and research volumes. Prof. Nazrul has published an excellent book entitled "Environmental Management of Marine Ecosystems" jointly with late Prof. Sven Erik Jorgensen by the CRC press (Taylor & Francis). He has also edited an excellent book entitled: Bangladesh I: Climate Change Impacts, Mitigation and Adaptation in Developing Countries, Springer Publication, the Netherlands & Germany. Prof. Nazrul is currently serving as an "Executive Editor-in-Chief" of the journal "Modeling Earth Systems and Environment", Springer Publications (Journal no. 40808).
Prof. Dr. Andre Ronald van Amstel is an Assistant Professor at Wageningen University and Research, the Netherlands. Andre van Amstel studied Physical Geography and Planning in Amsterdam and has a long standing expertise in Integrated Environmental Assessment. He contributed to the development of Integrated Model to Assess the Global Environment at the Institute of Public Health and the Environment in the Netherlands. He is particularly interested in the global environment and the risk of a runaway greenhouse effect by methane from melting of the permafrost in the Arctic. Van Amstel contributed to the IPCC 2006 Guidelines on Agriculture, Forestry and Land use and as such contributed the Nobel Peace Prize 2007 for Al Gore and the IPCC. Since 2014 he is a member of the Nordforsk Scientific Advisory Board for the Arctic Council of Ministers on Arctic Integrated Environmental Research. 

Chapter 1 Climate Change Diplomacy, Adaptation and Mitigation Strategies in South Asian Countries: A Critical Review Md. Nazrul Islam; Sahanaj Tamanna; Md. Noman; Al Rabby Siemens; S. M. Rashedul Islam; Md. Shahriar Islam

Chapter 2 Impact of Frequent Cyclonic Storms on Land Use and Land Cover Changes along the Coastal Areas of Indian Sundarban Prosenjit Kayal1 and Indrajit Roy Chowdhury1

Chapter 3 Flood Susceptibility Mapping Using the Frequency Ratio (FR) Model in the Mahananda River Basin, West Bengal, India Arnab Ghosh1, Malabika Biswas Roy*2, Pankaj Kumar Roy3

Chapter 4 Climate Change Impact on Soil Salinity Dynamics at the Gosaba CD Block in India by Integrating Geospatial Indicators and Regression Techniques Bijay Halder1, Jatisankar Bandyopadhyay2; Md. Nazrul Islam3

Chapter 5 Monitoring retreat rate of glacier of Pindar basin, Kumaun Himalaya using remote sensing and GIS techniques Biswanath Das1, Anoop K Patel 2, Santosh Kumar 3 Ismail Mondal4*

Chapter 6 Fractional Snow Cover Change in the Himalayan Region Sanjib Mahata1 and Dibyendu Khalua2

Chapter 7 Watershed Delineation and Land Use Land Cover (LULC) study of Purna River: A Case Study of Upper Tapi River Basin Darshan Mehta1*; Keyur Prajapati2, Md. Nazrul Islam3

Chapter 8 Anthropogenic Factors Switch the Ecological Condition of Wetlands in the Southern Kerala Districts in India Amritha P S a , Dr. K. Varunprasath b* & Dr. K. Varunprasath

Chapter 9 Design of Hydrologic Condition for Urban Storm Water Drainage Under Climate Change Impact A.S.Pathan1, A.P. Nilawar2, M.L. Waikar3, G.R. Gandhe4, S.D.Shinde5

Chapter 10 Modeling the Impact of Surface Water Dynamics on the LULC and LST Alteration at the North 24 Parganas in India Bijay Halder1, Jatisankar Bandyopadhyay2; Md. Nazrul Islam3

Chapter 11 Role of Natural Gas in Energy Security and Climate Change Mitigation: Indian Context Anirbid Sircar1, Kriti Yadav1, Namrata Bist1, Hemangi Oza1 and Kamakshi Rayavarapu1

Chapter 12 Farmer's Perception on Impact of Climate Change and Adaptive Strategies in Sikkim Himalaya Aakash Upadhyay1 and Prof. S.C. Rai*

Chapter 13 Land Use Change and Ecological Implications in Uttar Pradesh in India: A Sectoral Perspective Shahab Fazal1*; Azharuddin S.K.1 and Salma Sultana1

Chapter 14 Study and Analysis of Precipitation Trends and Varaiability for Karnataka State in India Shashwata Chatterjee1, Sathyanathan Rangarajan2

Chapter 15 Trend Analysis of Precipitation (1901-2015) over Telangana State, India Aravind Murali1; Sathyanathan Rangarajan2*; Deeptha Thattai3; Manikandan Kamaraj4; Divyashri Varadharajan5; Sangay Yangzom Bhutia6; Md. Nazrul Islam7

Chapter 16 Causes, Effects and Remedial Measures of Climate Change in the East Coast of India with special reference to the state of Odisha Tarun Kumar Lohani

Chapter 17 Statistical Approach to Detect Rainfall Trend over Tamil Nadu state, India Sathyanathan Rangarajan1*; Karthik Raja R2; Aravind Murali3; Deeptha Thattai4; Manikandan Kamaraj5; Md. Nazrul Islam6

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