Wetlands and Urban Resilience: A Global Outlook
暫譯: 濕地與城市韌性：全球展望

本書提供了對城市環境與濕地生態系統之間複雜關係的全面分析，強調了濕地在增強全球城市韌性方面的重要功能。這部文獻作品對城市濕地涉及的各個方面進行了廣泛的檢視，重點關注其在快速城市增長的變化環境中所扮演的生態、社會經濟和氣候重要性。本研究徹底探討了這些常被低估的自然棲息地作為減輕各種環境危害（如防洪、水質淨化及抵禦氣候變遷影響）的關鍵貢獻者的角色。此外，這些棲息地提供的生態系統服務對城市社區的福祉至關重要。通過整合多種觀點、檢視具體案例及借鑒跨學科的研究，本書提供了對新穎方法、靈活管理方式及成功政策架構的全面理解，這些都是將城市濕地無縫整合進可持續城市規劃中所必需的。這種整合對於促進位於不同地理和社會文化背景的城市韌性至關重要。

本書匯集了該領域的領先專家和實務工作者的貢獻，是學者、政策制定者、城市規劃者、環境專業人士、社區利益相關者及有興趣在濕地保護與城市韌性交匯處推進知識和實踐的學生的重要資源。

Dr. Susanta Kumar Chakraborty is Professor of Zoology at Vidyasagar University and he received his M.Phil. in Environmental Science and Ph.D. in Marine Science from Calcutta University. His research centers on Coastal Ecology, Mangrove and Fresh Water Wetlands, Rivers and Estuaries, emphasising biodiversity and ecosystem dynamics. He has also worked on the integration of rural bio-technologies for environmental management, eco-restoration, and livelihood generation. He has received a number of awards in recognition of his research commitments. Dr. Chakraborty has taught for over three decades, mostly in the postgraduate level, covering different aspects of Zoology in general and Ecology/Environmental Science in particular, and has successfully supervised thirty Ph.D. students, published around 150 research papers, written books, and has completed more than a dozen research projects including consultancy work on environmental impact assessment in several countries. Dr. Chakraborty has also served at other universities as a member of selection committees and academic bodies, as well as an expert member in several government departments like U.G.C. and I.C.A.R., and he is a life member of a number of scientific bodies in India and serves on the editorial board of a number of journals.

Prof. Lakshmi Sivaramakrishnan is the founder of the Geography Department at Jadavpur University which was initiated in 2014. She has a long tenure of teaching at different Universities of West Bengal namely North Bengal University and The University of Burdwan as full-time Faculty and as Guest Faculty at the University of Tripura, WBSU, Calcutta University, and Kalyani University. She studied at the University of Calcutta, where completed her PhD in 1996. She is an Urban Geographer who is proficient in Remote Sensing GIS and therefore combines the strengths of Regional Planning and Human Geography. She has 60 research papers and 3 books to her credit. She has delivered lectures across Universities in India and also at the University of Colombo and Dacca and presented papers at national and international conferences across the country. She has taken up projects under UGC and has been supervising several research fellows. She has guided more than 20 scholars who have obtained their doctoral degrees and has also supervised several MPhil scholars. She is on the editorial board of many renowned journals like Hill Geographer, Regional Science Policy and Practice, and Indian Journal of Regional Science, and at present is the Editor of Geographical Review of India, Kolkata.

Dr. Uday Chatterjee is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Geography, Bhatter College, Dantan, Paschim Medinipur, West Bengal, India and Applied Geographer with a Post-Graduate in Applied Geography at Utkal University and Doctoral Degrees in Applied Geography at Ravenshaw University, Cuttack, Odisha, India. He has contributed various research papers published in various reputed national and international journals and edited book volumes. He has jointly edited books entitled 'Harmony with nature: Illusions and Elusions from Geographer's perspective in the 21st Century', and 'Land Reclamation and Restoration Strategies for Sustainable Development' (November 2021, Edition: 1st, Publisher: Elsevier, Editor: Dr. Gouri Sankar Bhunia, Dr. Uday Chatterjee, Dr. Anil Kashyap, Dr. Pravat Kumar Shit. He has also conducted (Convener) one Faculty Development Programme on 'Modern methods of teaching and advanced research methods' sponsored by Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR), Govt. of India. His areas of research interest cover Urban Planning, Social and Human geography, Applied Geomorphology, Hazards & Disasters, Environmental Issues, Land Use and Rural Development. His research work has been funded by the West Bengal Pollution Control Board (WBPCB), Govt. of West Bengal, India. He has served as a reviewer for many International journals.

Ranita Karmakar is a Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Geography, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India, and currently working towards her doctoral research. She has completed her Graduation and Master's in Geography from Lady Brabourne College, Calcutta University with a specialization in population geography. Her previous work was published as a book chapter in an edited volume entitled: "Water Supply for the Urban Poor in Indian Cities Issues and Challenges Edited by Dr. Saleha Jamal and Dr. Abha Lakshmi Singh by B.R. Publishing Corporation". The title of the publication is 'Urban Infrastructure and Service Delivery in Kolkata Slum'. Another Paper has been Published named "Towards Disaster-Resilient Slum Management (in Kolkata*)" with Prof. Lakshmi Sivaramakrishnan in the volume entitled: "Kolkata - The Colonial City in Transition: Reflections in Geographies of Urban India (subtitle)." The publisher of this title is Routledge, trading as Taylor and Francis, whose registered office is in London, UK. In 2023 a paper named Resilience to Natural Hazards: A Case Study of Ghoramara Island, Sundarbans published in the Journal of Geographical Review of India, Volume 84, No 3&4, September & December 2022. Currently, she is working as Editor of an Elsevier Book Named Urban Health: A Global Perspective. Apart from that she has four more papers that are accepted but not yet published, and many workshops, and seminars. In Addition to that, she is currently working on a patent Named Vehicle Pollution Monitoring Device.

蘇桑塔·庫馬·查克拉博提博士是維迪亞薩加大學的動物學教授，他在加爾各答大學獲得環境科學碩士學位（M.Phil.）和海洋科學博士學位（Ph.D.）。他的研究重點在於沿海生態學、紅樹林和淡水濕地、河流和河口，強調生物多樣性和生態系統動態。他還致力於整合農村生物技術以進行環境管理、生態修復和生計創造。他因其研究貢獻獲得了多項獎項。查克拉博提博士教學超過三十年，主要在研究生層級，涵蓋動物學的不同方面，特別是生態學和環境科學，並成功指導了三十位博士生，發表了約150篇研究論文，撰寫了書籍，並完成了十多個研究項目，包括在幾個國家的環境影響評估顧問工作。查克拉博提博士還在其他大學擔任選拔委員會和學術機構的成員，以及在多個政府部門（如U.G.C.和I.C.A.R.）擔任專家成員，並且是印度多個科學機構的終身會員，還擔任多本期刊的編輯委員會成員。

拉克什米·西瓦拉馬克里希南教授是賈達夫普爾大學地理系的創始人，該系於2014年成立。她在西孟加拉邦的不同大學（如北孟加拉大學和布爾德萬大學）擔任全職教員，並在特里普拉大學、西孟加拉州大學、加爾各答大學和卡利亞尼大學擔任客座教員，教學經驗悠久。她在加爾各答大學學習，於1996年獲得博士學位。她是一位城市地理學家，精通遙感GIS，因此結合了區域規劃和人文地理的優勢。她擁有60篇研究論文和3本書籍的著作。她在印度的多所大學以及科倫坡大學和達卡大學進行過演講，並在全國的國際會議上發表論文。她參與了UGC的項目，並指導了多位研究學者。她指導了超過20位獲得博士學位的學者，並且還指導了多位碩士研究生。她是多本知名期刊的編輯委員會成員，如《山地地理學家》、《區域科學政策與實踐》和《印度區域科學期刊》，目前擔任《印度地理評論》（加爾各答）的編輯。

烏代·查特吉博士是印度西孟加拉邦達坦的巴特爾學院地理系的助理教授，並且是一位應用地理學家，擁有烏特卡爾大學的應用地理碩士學位和拉文肖大學的應用地理博士學位。他在多個知名的國內外期刊和編輯書籍中發表了各種研究論文。他共同編輯的書籍包括《與自然和諧：21世紀地理學家的幻影與錯覺》和《可持續發展的土地開發與修復策略》（2021年11月，第一版，出版商：Elsevier，編輯：Gouri Sankar Bhunia博士、烏代·查特吉博士、阿尼爾·卡什亞普博士、普拉瓦特·庫馬·希特博士）。他還主持了一個由印度社會科學研究委員會（ICSSR）贊助的「現代教學方法與高級研究方法」的教員發展計劃。他的研究興趣涵蓋城市規劃、社會與人文地理、應用地貌學、災害與災難、環境問題、土地利用和農村發展。他的研究工作得到了西孟加拉邦污染控制委員會（WBPCB）的資助。他曾擔任多個國際期刊的審稿人。

拉尼塔·卡馬卡爾是印度加爾各答賈達夫普爾大學地理系的高級研究員，目前正在進行博士研究。她在加爾各答大學的布拉布恩女學院完成了地理學的學士和碩士學位，專攻人口地理。她的前期工作以書籍章節的形式發表在編輯卷中，題為《印度城市貧困者的水供應：問題與挑戰》，由Saleha Jamal博士和Abha Lakshmi Singh博士編輯，出版商為B.R. Publishing Corporation。該出版物的標題為《加爾各答貧民窟的城市基礎設施與服務交付》。另一篇論文名為《朝向災害韌性的貧民窟管理（在加爾各答）》，與拉克什米·西瓦拉馬克里希南教授共同發表，收錄於《加爾各答 - 殖民城市的轉型：印度城市地理的反思》（副標題）中。該書的出版商為Routledge，商號為Taylor and Francis，註冊辦公室位於英國倫敦。2023年，一篇名為《對自然災害的韌性：戈拉馬拉島的案例研究》的論文發表在《印度地理評論》期刊，卷84，第3和第4期，2022年9月和12月。目前，她擔任一本名為《城市健康：全球視角》的Elsevier書籍的編輯。此外，她還有四篇論文已被接受但尚未發表，並參加了多個研討會和研討會。此外，她目前正在研究一項名為「車輛污染監測裝置」的專利。