Overview
- Covers cross-cutting issues, attracting trans-disciplinary researchers, city planners, and decision makers
- Contributes to developing appropriate policy decision support systems for sustainable development
- Integrates spatial and non-spatial datasets in a single framework
Part of the book series: Advances in Geographical and Environmental Sciences (AGES)
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This book expands the scientific knowledge base in various physical and socio-economic issues among scholars, planners, and decision makers for policy development and research regarding sustainable development. It also demonstrates the importance of modern spatial decision support tools of remote sensing and GIS to better understand sustainable development processes and policy development. Furthermore, the book discusses case studies providing new insights as to how remote sensing and GIS-based decision support systems contribute to understanding physical and socio-economic processes and developing pragmatic policy for sustainable development.
This book covers land surface temperature, hydrological processes, terrain mapping, flood and landslide hazards, land use and land cover dynamics, crime hotspots, urban health issues, tourism, agriculture, forest management, flood mitigation, urban sprawl, and village information systems, among others. Readers will find this book to be an invaluable resource for understanding and solving diverse physical and human issues for policy development related to sustainable planning and management.
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Manish Kumar is currently working as an assistant professor in the Department of Geography, School of Basic Sciences, Central University of Haryana, Mahendergarh. Earlier, from January 2016 to February 2020, he worked as an assistant professor in the Department of Geography, Kalindi College, University of Delhi. Prior to that, from January 2009 to December 2014, Dr. Kumar worked as a lecturer in the M.Sc. Remote Sensing and GIS Course of Kumaun University, Nainital. He has also worked as a research associate in the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) project on “rurbanization”. In addition, he has been a visiting faculty member at the School of Planning and Architecture (SPA), Delhi. Dr. Kumar holds a Ph.D. degree from Kumaun University and a postgraduate diploma in remote sensing and GIS from the Indian Institute of Remote Sensing (IIRS) of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), Dehradun. He has published more than 25 research papers in various national and international Science Citation Index and Scopus-indexed journals. His special area of research interest includes the application of remote sensing and GIS in urban and regional planning, land use and land cover dynamics, and urban climate change, among others.
Dinesh Kumar Tripathi is an associate professor in the Department of Geography at Kamla Nehru Institute of Physical and Social Sciences in Sultanpur, Uttar Pradesh (affiliated with Dr. Rammanohar Lohia Avadh University in Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh), and he has been engaged in teaching and research for the past 25 years. Dr. Tripathi’s academic interests include remote sensing, GIS, and natural resource management. He is a keen researcher and has published 37 research papers in various professional research journals of high repute and presented research papers at a number of national and international conferences and seminars. Dr. Tripathi completed the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) research project on management of degraded land using satellite remote sensing and GIS, a case study of Gauriganj block, Amethi-UP, in 2012.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems for Policy Decision Support
Editors: R. B. Singh, Manish Kumar, Dinesh Kumar Tripathi
Series Title: Advances in Geographical and Environmental Sciences
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-7731-1
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-16-7730-4Published: 25 April 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-16-7733-5Published: 25 April 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-981-16-7731-1Published: 24 April 2022
Series ISSN: 2198-3542
Series E-ISSN: 2198-3550
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 497
Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations, 238 illustrations in colour
Topics: Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns), Human Geography, Natural Hazards