Urban Water Ecosystems in Africa and Asia Challenges and Opportunities for Conservation and Restoration

1. From urban water resource management to urban water ecosystem management

Shamik Chakraborty, Amit Chatterjee, Pankaj Kumar

2. Integrated resource use management practices for better urban water management through application of SES lens

Shamik Chakraborty, Gowhar Meraj, Geetha Mohan, Pankaj Kumar, Amit Chatterjee, Shib Shankar Bagdi

3. Ecosystem service valuation and risk assessment of a Ramsar site region (India) for strengthening protection and conservation

Soumik Saha, Biswajit Bera, Pravat Kumar Shit, Sumana Bhattacharjee, Nairita Sengupta, Debashish Sengupta, Partha Pratim Adhikary

4. Impact of water shortage and climate change on peri-urban agriculture in Tunisia

Mohamed Kefi, Chokri Dridi

5. Cultural and scientific understanding of Submarine Groundwater Discharge

Nagham Ismaeel, Kousik Das

6. Migration induced by water scarcity: A brief review

Richa, Subir Sen

7. Urban water sector management, challenges, opportunities and cross-cutting issues: a case of Malawi’s Urban water sector

Walter Chinangwa, Linda Chinangwa

8. Assessing Human Health Risks associated to Water Stress: A Local Approach in the Indian Context

Druti Gangwar, Rama U. Pandey

9. Water ecosystem management is Japan successes and failures

Shamik Chakraborty, Gowhar Meraj, Pankaj Kumar, Amit Chatterjee

10. Building resilience to climate change through water retension solutions in Ca Mau city, Vietnam

Huynh Vuong Thu Minh, Le Anh Tuan, Nguyen Dinh Giang Nam, Tran Van Ty, Kim Lavane, Pankaj Kumar, Nigel K. Downes

11. Quantification of ecosystem benefits of community plantation and its impacts on human well-beings: A case study from Kenya

Pankaj Kumar, Tomoki Yagasaki, Gowhar Meraj, Shamik Chakraborty, Rajarshi Dasgupta, Amit Chatterjee, Huynh Vuong Thu Minh, Binaya Kumar Mishra, Ram Avtar, Osamu Saito, Kazuhiko Takeuchi

12. The production of hydrosocial space in contemporary China

Gianni Talamini, Di Shao

13. Water Accessibility: Information Failures and Beyond

Harisankar Krishnadas, Kristina Matysik

14. Flood Management Issues in Dhaka City: Identifying Challenges and Sustainable Solutions

Shantanu Kumar Saha; Md. Ayatullah Khan; Md. Asif Bin Kabir, Md. Mujibur Rahman

15. Challenges and opportunities for urban water ecosystems in Asia and Africa: Conclusions and way forward.

Shamik Chakraborty, Amit Chatterjee, Pankaj Kumar

Biography

Shamik Chakraborty (PhD) is an associate professor at the Graduate School of Advanced Sustainability Science, University of Toyama, Japan. Prior to this he worked as a Lecturer at the Sustainability Co-creation Programme at Hosei University, Japan. He has also served as a JSPS-UNU postdoctoral fellow at the United Nations University, Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability (UNU-IAS), and as a visiting research fellow at the Integrated Research System for Sustainability Science (IR3S) (presently, Institute for Future Initiatives) at the University of Tokyo. As a human geographer, he is interested in studying human-environment interactions from a social-ecological systems perspective. He has worked with the concepts of social-ecological systems, local ecological knowledge, and ecosystem services in different ecosystems in Japan, India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Indonesia, and the Philippines.

Amit Chatterjee (PhD) has a combined experience of more than one and half decades in teaching, research and industry and is presently an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan, India. His research interest includes urban sustainability, land and environment. Dr. Amit has completed successfully a number of collaborative research and consultancy projects, including those on Urban Co-benefits (UNU-IAS, Japan), Urban Missions in India-targets, performance and linkages to UN-SDGs (GIZ), Politics of Care in Pandemic Time (UCL’s Global Engagement Funds), Urban Biodiversity (UNU-IAS, Japan), Shelter for All under Design Innovation Centre (Govt. of India).

Pankaj Kumar (PhD) is working as a senior policy researcher in the field of water resources and climate change adaptation at the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES), Japan. Prior to this, he worked as JSPS/ UNU-IAS postdoctoral fellow in United Nations University, Institute for Advanced Study of Sustainability (UNU-IAS), Tokyo; for more than three years. His research work focused on socio-hydrology, water security, hydrological simulation and scenario modelling, and water-health-food-energy nexus, a transdisciplinary work aimed to give policy relevant solutions to enhance community resilience to global change and a sustainable development of water environment and human well-being. In addition, he is actively engaged in capacity development on various numerical tools used for water resource management, intended for local government officials and relevant stakeholders in different Asian countries. He has work experience with different global assessments like IPCC, IPBES and GEO as Chapter scientist and lead authors respectively. He has several peer reviewed articles (>170) in high impact factor journals, one authored book, one edited book to his credit.