Overview
- Adds to the limited literature available on countries like Nepal, Bhutan, and Myanmar
- Uses remote sensing datasets and geographic information systems to analyze current environmental issues
- Includes a wealth of maps and diagrams
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
About this book
Studies on South Asia are an emerging interdisciplinary field, this volume expands on the currently limited literature available on South Asia and focuses on the regions environmental, climatic and natural resource base by looking at case studies from Nepal, India and Bangladesh. The book contains twelve chapters which deal with various environmental challenges, such as the impacts of climate change on floods and droughts, population structure and regeneration dynamics of dominant treeline species, environmental changes and rural livelihoods, and change analysis and impacts of hard coastal structures.
Apart from the various thematic areas and diversity of geographical coverage, most of the studies also demonstrate the application of geospatial techniques for the collection of environmental data, and the use of GIS for spatial analysis of the data. The specific application of geospatial techniques and methods includes NDVI, NDWI, NDBI, SMI, SPOT-VGT NDVI, environmental flow, distribution and trend estimation of tropospheric formaldehyde, vegetation sensitivity to climate change, variability of tropospheric ozone, and geo-environmental problems.The contributors are seasoned researchers currently engaged in academic and research activities, and work at universities in USA, India, Bangladesh, Bhutan and Japan.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Anup Saikia, Ph.D., teaches at the Department of Geography, Gauhati University, Guwahati, India.
Pankaj Thapa, Ph.D., is an Academic Consultant base in Kanglung, Bhutan. He previously taught at the Department of Geography, Sherubtse College,Royal University of Bhutan, Kanglung, Bhutan for some two decades.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Environmental Change in South Asia
Book Subtitle: Essays in Honor of Mohammed Taher
Editors: Anup Saikia, Pankaj Thapa
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-47660-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-47659-5Published: 12 November 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-47662-5Published: 13 November 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-47660-1Published: 11 November 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 233
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations, 112 illustrations in colour
Topics: Environmental Geography, Climate Change, Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry