Auteur: Bathula Srinagesh

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 numerousresearch papers and book chapters. He has participated in a number of conferences and workshops and led the Indian delegation of the Indian Council of Social Sciences and Japan Society for Promotion of Sciences (ICSSR-JSPS) joint research programme.