Biographical note

Dr. Subodh Chandra Pal, Assistant Professor, has been working in the Postgraduate Department of Geography, the University of Burdwan, Bardhaman, West Bengal, India. He received his Ph.D. in Geography from Visva-Bharati (Central University in India) in 2015. His main fields of expertise are fluvial geomorphology, pedo-geomorphology, land degradation, soil erosion, gully erosion, landslide vulnerability, climate change, water resources monitoring and management and published more than hundreds international and national research articles in various renowned journals. His research work has been funded by the University Grants Commission (UGC), Govt. of India, and Department of Science and Technology (DST), Govt. of India. Dr. Pal has served as a reviewer for many International reputed journals.

Dr. Uday Chatterjee is an Assistant Professor at the Department of  Geography, Bhatter College, Dantan, affiliated with Vidyasagar University, West Bengal, India. He earned his Doctoral Degree in Applied Geography from Ravenshaw University, Cuttack, Odisha. His research interests encompass Urban Planning, Social and Human Geography, Applied Geomorphology, Indigenous knowledge and Hazards and Disasters, Risk Assessment and Resilience, Community Response and Environmental Issues. Dr. Chatterjee has been actively involved in editing scholarly works, including the Special Issue on Urbanism, Smart Cities, and Modelling for GeoJournal, Springer, Special issue in Global Social Welfare, Springer and Frontiers journal, Editorial Board Member of Scientific Report (Nature Portfolio) and serving as a Book Series Editor for ‘Developments in Environmental Science’ and  ‘Sustainability Solutions : An Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Nexus’, Springer. His extensive research and editorial contributions highlight his commitment to advancing geographical knowledge and its applications. 

Dr. Martiwi Diah Setiawati is a Research Fellow and Academic Associate for the Water and Resource Management Programme at UNU-IAS. She received her doctoral degree in Environmental Science and Engineering, working on applying multi-sensor satellite data for habitat studies. As a postdoctoral researcher, she was involved in Indonesia's Climate Change Adaptation Initiatives Project, a collaboration between the Ministry of the Environment of Japan (MOEJ) and the Ministry of National Development Planning of the Republic of Indonesia (BAPPENAS) to mainstream climate change adaptation into a local development plan. Before joining UNU-IAS, Dr. Setiawati worked as a Research Scientist at the National Research and Innovation Agency of Indonesia (BRIN) and as a Project Researcher at the University of Tokyo.

Dipankar Ruidas is a former MPhil research scholar in the Department of Geography, the University of Burdwan, Bardhaman, West Bengal, India. His prior fields of expertise are water resources management and water quality. He has published more than tweenty one  international and national research articles in various renowned journals like Springer and Elsevier group. His research work has been funded by the University Grants Commission (UGC), India. Currently, he is work as an assistant teacher at the education department under Bihar Government, India.