Climate Change Vulnerability and Adaptation

Prof. Shahab Fazal is Professor of Geography. His research interests are in Resource Evaluation,, Remote Sensing and GIS. Prof Fazal has published Sixeen books and more than Seventy five research articles in various national and international journals. Prof. Shahab Fazal has extensive collaborative research with some of the leading institutions from western world. His academic visits and research includes United States of America; Great Britain; Canada; Germany; The Netherlands; Sweden; Belgium; France; Switzerland; Italy etc. He is recipient of prestigious fellowships such as-CSIR Fellowship (1991-93); Canadian Government-Shastri Faculty Research Fellowship (2003 and 2009); British Government-Commonwealth Academic Staff Fellowship (2004); DST-DAAD Fellowship (2000-2001); Netherlands Government- NWO-ICSSR Visiting Professor (2011); United States of America - Fulbright Fellowship (2013-14). He was also member of Indo -German Joint Research Team working for DST - DAAD Research Project. He has successfully completed four Major Research Projects sponsored by DST, ICSSR, DST-DAAD and SICI (Canada).

Prof. Fazal has also coordinated several Refresher Courses/Winter Schools on Disaster Management for UGC-Academic Staff College at AMU. He was also coordinator of DST Sponsored Winter School on Application of RS&GIS for Natural Resource Management.

Dr. Saleha Jamal, Associate Professor, Department of Geography, Aligarh Muslim University completed her B.Sc. (2006), M.Sc (2008) and Ph.D (2012) from Aligarh Muslim University, India. Throughout she had a brilliant academic career having obtained University Gold Medal for first position in B.Sc and M.Sc. She has more than twelve years of teaching experience at UG and PG level.

She has been awarded with various prestigious scholarships (Post Graduate Merit Scholarship, INSPIRE Fellowship by DST, Government of India) and best paper presentation awards like “Young Geographer Award at Banaras Hindu University in 2010”, “Prof. N.P. Aiyyer Young Geographer Award at Punjab University in 2010”, “Nishi Gaur Young Researcher Award at DDU Gorakhpur University in 2012” and other academic awards like “Best Researcher Award at Aligarh Muslim University in 2011” and “Special Recognition Award in the World Wetland Day Conference at Thane in 2021” “1 st Prize in oral presentation in the World Wetland Day Conference 16 th National Conference on Wetlands “at Mumbai in 2022” “Best Geography Teacher Award, 2023” by the Deccan Geographical Society of India in XVII DGSI International Geography Congress, “Recognition for Contributions to Science in STEM disciplines” by the Indo-US APJ Abdul Kalam STEM Centre of the Ohio State University and Aligarh Muslim University of Education and Research etc.

She specializes in the field of Environmental issues, urban and related health issues etc. She is an active researcher and a prolific writer and has published seven books on issues like Indoor Air Pollution, Urban-Rural Linkages, Water Supply and Sanitation for the Urban Poor in India, Monitoring and Managing Natural Resources, Neighbourhood concept, Climate change Vulnerabilities and Adaptation etc. and more than sixty research papers on issues related to land use land cover changes, environment, urban, and health in National and International journals of repute. She has completed one major project awarded by IMPRESS (ICSSR) entitled “Environmental and Health Consequences of Slaughter Houses: A study of slaughter houses located on the outskirts of Aligarh city” and presently she is working with another major project awarded by ICSSR entitled “Planning Wetland Management with Land Transformation Trends Using Geo-Spatial Approach: A Case Study of Aligarh District, Uttar Pradesh, India”