Blue-Green Land Management and Smart Ecosystem Services Integrated Strategies for Planning and Development

Dr. Praveen Kumar Rai is an associate professor and the head of Department of Geography, Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti Language University, Lucknow, India. He also served as an assistant professor in the Amity Institute of Geoinformatics and Remote Sensing, Amity University, Noida, and Department of Geography, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. He has more than 14 years of teaching and research experience in the field of remote sensing and GIS. He completed his Ph.D. in remote sensing form the Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, India. His research interests include remote sensing, GIS, glaciology, health and disease modelling, disaster management and water resource management, among others. He has published 8 books and more than 80 research papers in international and national journals. He also serves as an editorial board member of many international journals.

Dr. Shalini Rai (Ph.D. in microbiology) is an assistant professor (temp.) in the Department of Microbiology, Dr. Shakuntala Misra National Rehabilitation University, India. She obtained her M.Sc. and Ph.D. in microbiology from Sam Higginbottom University of Agriculture, Technology and Sciences, India. Dr. Rai has more than 8 years of teaching and research experiences. She has engaged in various research activities on soil and agriculture microbiology, plant-microbe interactions, plant disease management, enzymology, biocontrol, molecular biology, and microbial diagnostics. She has published several book chapters, review articles, and research papers in prominent international journals. She has published various significant research paper in the national and national journals.