Azizur Rahman Siddiqui

This article presents an overview of the methodologies and execution of various models of urban planning that have emerged in the 20th century and the persistence of environmental injustice in the cities of today. We trace the interconnected changes which have occurred in the urban planning models under the prevailing social philosophy and dissecte...

Due to the expeditious rise in anthropogenic activities and rapid extractive pressure, protected areas in the Indian Himalayan Region (IHR) are experiencing significant losses in ecological diversity and a substantial decline in the potential for carbon sequestration and climate change mitigation. The quantification of carbon sequestration and t...

The biggest problem facing the globe is producing enough food to feed an expanding population in an era of regular climate change. Therefore, the adoption of modern technologies, high-yielding cultivars, irrigation water, and fertilizers has contributed to the development of a global food surplus. It generally goes without saying that agriculture i...

This chapter examines drought scenarios using a variety of drought indices. In this chapter, a range of surface and meteorological characteristics were utilized to calculate meteorological, hydrological, and vegetative drought indices. These indices were then mapped using earth imaging products and analyzed through geo-spatial approaches. Agricultu...

Owing to the widespread use of pesticides all over the world and the lack of effective remediation technologies, the persistence of pesticides in the soil has emerged as a serious environmental issue. Although pesticides have a great impact on increasing yield and benefitting cultivators economically, the indiscriminate application of pesticides in...

Stone mining is one of the most important economic activities carried on in southern part of the Sonbhadra district due to its rich natural base. Identification of such sites are of prime importance from geomorphological point of view as it helps to gain knowledge about the geological evolution of the area by exposing under-surface rocks and materi...

Land is one of the most valuable gifts provided by nature over which humans perform their different activities. Sustainable utilization of available land resources determines the socioeconomic and cultural progress of a region. The term 'Land Use' is used to describe the use of an area of land at a certain time. A land is assigned different economi...

Drought has persistently been one of the key disasters in semi-arid and arid regions of the earth. This study was carried out to examine long-term (2000–2020) spatiotemporal trends of drought over eastern Rajasthan (India) using earth observation datasets. These regions have been always susceptible to drought due to insufficient rainfall in most of...

In many parts of the world, natural hazards have become commoner, more prevalent, more severe, and graver. This is especially true of developing regions, where the triple factors of disaster risk, vulnerability of the society to hazards in general, and poverty have caused millions of people to become internally displaced persons (IDPs). The problem...

The impact of climate change is recorded in sea level rise, ocean acidification, coral bleaching, glacier reduction on a shorter time scale as well as an increase of earth’s surface temperature (i.e. global warming) in geological landforms, in ocean sediments and ice cores globally on a longer time scales. Although both natural processes such as ch...

Small-scale farming is important as it is the chief provider of livelihood to poor people, especially in a developing country like India. Thus, investments in increasing farm productions from small and intensively cultivated land are important for reducing global poverty. Based on primary survey, landholding size of Scheduled Caste population in di...

Riverbank erosion along the River Brahmaputra in the Majuli Island of Assam has led to the displacement of thousands of people,rendering them landless and homeless. However, those affected by riverbank erosion do not qualify for any assistance from the Central and State governments programs for natural hazard because erosion is not defined as a haz...

Revised Version Received-May, 2019) The present paper attempts at the monitoring of Noise Pollution levels at major road crossings in Allahabad Metropolitan City. The city covers an area of 75.6 sq. kms. and consists of an estimated population of 1210046 persons (2017 projected population). With such a huge population and also a significant adminis...

Clean and safe drinking water is important for the overall health and wellbeing; therefore, access to safe potable drinking water is one of the basic amenities of humankind, especially in urban areas with high consumption pattern of the large population inhabiting these spaces. Among the various sources of water, groundwater is considered to be the...

The present study focuses on the long term trends of meteorological parameters like precipitation, temperature, solar radiation, wind direction etc. of Udaipur district, Rajasthan which is mainly located in semi-arid zone in India. Meteorological parameters have been taken for this study to find out the annual variability using Mann-Kendall test an...

Owing to its severe effect on productivity of rain-fed crops and indirect effect on employment as well as per capita income, agricultural drought has become a prime concern worldwide. The occurrence of drought is mainly a climatic phenomenon which cannot be eliminated. However, its effects can be reduced if actual spatio-temporal information relate...

The ongoing environmental changes as well as in situ statistics have been adopted for the present study. An environmental change is a slow& gradual process and is hard to identify without long term historical data. The Landsat TM/ETM+ data along with historical crop acreage statistics was used to monitor the spatio-temporal changes in soil salinity...

Progress of Geomorphological Researches in India.

Progress of Geomorphological researches in India.