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research interests include population geography, climatology, agricultural geography, remote sensing and GIS, and development studies. He has 13 research papers/
articles and two book chapters and one book to his credit brought out by national
and international publishers. He has attended more than 30 national and international seminars, conferences and workshops.
Lakshminarayan Satpati is presently the Director, UGC-HRDC, and is a
Professor at the Department of Geography, University of Calcutta, Kolkata. He has
obtained a Ph.D. degree in Geography from the University of Calcutta, Kolkata. He
has presented more than 60 research papers and chaired sessions in national and
international platforms, of which the 32nd IGU Conference in Cologne, Germany
(2012); 8th IAG Conference in Paris, France (2013); and PRSCO-2019 of RSAI,
Bangkok, are notable. Besides, he has been invited to deliver lectures in various
faculty development programmes of UGC, ICSSR, DST, etc. He has to his credit
more than 40 publications in the form of research papers and articles published in
reputed national and international journals and books. His research and teaching
interests include climatology, geomorphology, hydrology, environment, population
& development, quantitative geography and curriculum development in geography.
He has edited a book on Climate and Society – a Contemporary Perspective published by the University of Calcutta in 2015. Fourteen scholars have already obtained
their Ph.D. degrees under his supervision. He is also mentor to two Postdoctoral
Fellows in the Department of Geography at the University of Calcutta. He has successfully completed two UGC- sponsored research projects and organized three
national workshops on Climate Science. Prof. Satpati is associated with a large
number of academic and professional organizations of teachers, geographers and
climate scientists of India. Currently he is the honorary Editor of UGC-recognized
peer-reviewed biannual Indian Journal of Landscape Systems and Ecological
Studies of Indian Institute of Landscape, Ecology and Ekistics, since 2017.
About the Editors
research interests include population geography, climatology, agricultural geography, remote sensing and GIS, and development studies. He has 13 research papers/
articles and two book chapters and one book to his credit brought out by national
and international publishers. He has attended more than 30 national and international seminars, conferences and workshops.
Lakshminarayan Satpati is presently the Director, UGC-HRDC, and is a
Professor at the Department of Geography, University of Calcutta, Kolkata. He has
obtained a Ph.D. degree in Geography from the University of Calcutta, Kolkata. He
has presented more than 60 research papers and chaired sessions in national and
international platforms, of which the 32nd IGU Conference in Cologne, Germany
(2012); 8th IAG Conference in Paris, France (2013); and PRSCO-2019 of RSAI,
Bangkok, are notable. Besides, he has been invited to deliver lectures in various
faculty development programmes of UGC, ICSSR, DST, etc. He has to his credit
more than 40 publications in the form of research papers and articles published in
reputed national and international journals and books. His research and teaching
interests include climatology, geomorphology, hydrology, environment, population
& development, quantitative geography and curriculum development in geography.
He has edited a book on Climate and Society – a Contemporary Perspective published by the University of Calcutta in 2015. Fourteen scholars have already obtained
their Ph.D. degrees under his supervision. He is also mentor to two Postdoctoral
Fellows in the Department of Geography at the University of Calcutta. He has successfully completed two UGC- sponsored research projects and organized three
national workshops on Climate Science. Prof. Satpati is associated with a large
number of academic and professional organizations of teachers, geographers and
climate scientists of India. Currently he is the honorary Editor of UGC-recognized
peer-reviewed biannual Indian Journal of Landscape Systems and Ecological
Studies of Indian Institute of Landscape, Ecology and Ekistics, since 2017.
About the Editors