Urban Metabolism and Climate Change: Perspective for Sustainable Cities

這本書提供了對都市新陳代謝的基本理解和最新研究成果。都市中心面臨人口增加和相應的環境問題，包括都市擴張和氣候變化的挑戰。不同的都市化模式通過其能量和物質的都市新陳代謝差異，對氣候變化產生影響。從能量和物質的流入、流出和儲存方面進行的都市新陳代謝研究，可以與傳統評估技術相結合，幫助評估當今世界面臨的各種環境挑戰的規模和潛在影響。都市中心是關於人類活動對全球生物地球化學循環影響的重要實時觀測站。都市過程對全球碳預算有顯著和持久的影響。技術和基礎設施的進步推動了都市物質和能量的輸入和輸出增加。因此，在變化中的都市規劃中需要採取更可持續的方法，特別是在可持續資源利用和更好的廢物管理實踐方面。本書強調都市新陳代謝的可持續性、可持續都市規劃、生態系統服務和災害韌性，以提供對都市新陳代謝的跨學科理解。本書還指出了開發新的實時和可靠的都市新陳代謝評估方法的迫切需求。

Rahul Bhadouria is working as an assistant professor at the Department of Environmental Studies, Delhi College of Arts and Commerce, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India. He obtained his doctoral degree from the Department of Botany, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. He has published more than 22 papers, 22 book chapters, and 8 edited books in internationally reputed journals/publishers. His current research areas are, management of soil C dynamics to mitigate climate change, a perspective on tree seedling survival and growth attributes in tropical dry forests under the realm of climate change, plant community assembly, functional diversity and soil attributes along the forest-savanna-grassland continuum in India, recovery of degraded mountains in central Himalayas and urban ecology.

Sachchidanand Tripathi is presently working as Associate Professor, Department of Botany, Deen Dayal Upadhyaya College, University of Delhi, Delhi, India. Heobtained his doctoral degree from the Department of Botany, Banaras Hindu University, India. The areas of his interest are plant ecology, soil ecology, ecophysiology and urban ecology. He has published more than 50 publications (including research publications, books and book chapters, conference proceedings) with reputed international journals and publishers.

Pardeep Singh is presently working as an Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Science, PGDAV College University of Delhi, New Delhi, India. He obtained his doctoral degree from Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University) Varanasi. He has published more than 75 papers in international journals in the field of Environmental Management. He has also edited more than 30 books with various publishers (Springer Nature, Elsevier, CRC, Wiley).

P K Joshi is Professor School of Environmental Sciences and Chairperson Special Centre for Disaster Research, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He has immensely contributed in understanding geosphere and biosphere interactions. His present research work contributes to disaster risk reduction, assessing impact and vulnerability of climate change. Now, he has spent more than two decades in actively contributing to a wide range of training, research and academic programmes in the field of geospatial analysis. He possesses a scholastic record coupled with strong leadership skills and networking capabilities. He has made significant contribution as a 'Scientific Administrator', and in promoting 'Scientific Research' inter-alia through both publications and outreach activities.

Rishikesh Singh is working as National Post-doctoral Fellow (NPDF) at Panjab University, Chandigarh, India. Dr. Singh obtained his doctoral degree from Institute of Environment & Sustainable Development, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi. He is an environmental scientist with his research interests in soil carbon dynamics, land-use change and management, waste management, environmental contaminants, biochar, and carbon sequestration. He has published several research and review articles, and is a reviewer of several international journals of Elsevier, Wiley, Taylor and Francis, Frontiers, PLoS, and Springer Nature groups. He has published six books in leading international publishers such as Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley. Dr. Singh has 56 Scopus publications with 886 citations and a Scopus h-index 18.

Rahul Bhadouria目前在印度德里大學的德里藝術與商業學院環境研究系擔任助理教授。他在印度瓦拉納西的班納拉斯印度大學植物學系獲得博士學位。他在國際知名期刊/出版商上發表了超過22篇論文、22篇專書章節和8本編輯書籍。他目前的研究領域包括管理土壤碳動態以減緩氣候變化、在氣候變化範疇下對熱帶乾燥森林中樹苗存活和生長特性的觀點、植物群落組成、功能多樣性和印度森林-草原-草地連續體的土壤特性，以及中央喜馬拉雅山脈和城市生態系的恢復。

Sachchidanand Tripathi目前在印度德里大學的Deen Dayal Upadhyaya學院植物學系擔任副教授。他在印度瓦拉納西的班納拉斯印度大學植物學系獲得博士學位。他的研究興趣包括植物生態學、土壤生態學、生態生理學和城市生態學。他在國際知名期刊和出版商上發表了超過50篇論文（包括研究論文、書籍和專書章節、會議論文集）。

Pardeep Singh目前在印度德里大學的PGDAV學院環境科學系擔任助理教授。他在印度理工學院（班納拉斯印度大學）瓦拉納西分校獲得博士學位。他在環境管理領域的國際期刊上發表了超過75篇論文。他還與Springer Nature、Elsevier、CRC、Wiley等出版商合作編輯了30多本書籍。

P K Joshi是印度尼赫魯大學環境科學學院的教授，也是特殊災害研究中心的主席。他在理解地球圈層和生物圈相互作用方面做出了巨大貢獻。他目前的研究工作有助於減少災害風險，評估氣候變化的影響和脆弱性。他在地理空間分析領域積極貢獻了二十多年，具有卓越的學術紀錄和強大的領導能力和網絡能力。他在科學管理和促進科學研究方面做出了重要貢獻，包括出版和推廣活動。

Rishikesh Singh目前在印度錫克教大學擔任國家博士後研究員。Singh博士在印度瓦拉納西的環境與可持續發展研究所獲得博士學位。他是一位環境科學家，研究興趣包括土壤碳動態、土地利用變化和管理、廢物管理、環境污染物、生物炭和碳封存。他在Elsevier、Springer Nature、Wiley等領先國際出版商上發表了多篇研究和綜述文章。他是Elsevier、Wiley、Taylor and Francis、Frontiers、PLoS和Springer Nature等國際期刊的審稿人。他在領先的國際出版商如Elsevier、Springer Nature和Wiley出版了六本書籍。Singh博士在Scopus上有56篇論文，被引用886次，Scopus h指數為18。