Impact of Climate Change, Land Use and Land Cover, and Socio-economic Dynamics on Landslides / Disaster Risk Reduction (PDF)

of Indian origin, is a professor in the Graduate School of Media and Governance in Keio University's Shonan Fujisawa Campus (SFC). Earlier, he was the executive director of the Integrated Research on Disaster Risk (IRDR), a decade-long research program co-sponsored by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the International Social Science Council (ISSC), and the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR). He is also a senior fellow of the Institute of Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) Japan, the chairperson of SEEDS Asia and the Church World Service (CWS) Japan, two Japanese NGOs. Previously, he served as a professor in the Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies of Kyoto University. His expertise includes community-based disaster risk management, climate change adaptation, urban risk management, and disaster and environmental education. Prof. Shaw is the chair of the United Nations Science Technology Advisory Group (STAG) for disaster risk reduction and also the co-chair of the Asia Science Technology Academic Advisory Group (ASTAAG). He has published more than 45 books and over 300 academic papers and book chapters and is an editor of a book series on disaster risk reduction published by Springer.

Prof. Biswajeet Pradhan is a distinguished professor and an internationally established scientist in the field of geospatial information systems (GIS), remote sensing and image processing, complex modelling/geo-computing, machine learning and soft-computing applications, natural hazards and environmental modelling. He is the founding director of the Centre for Advanced Modelling and Geospatial Information Systems (CAMGIS) at the Faculty of Engineering and IT, the University of Technology Sydney, Australia, where he is also a distinguished professor. He is listed as the World's Most Highly Cited Researcher by the Clarivate Analytics Report in 2016, 2017 and 2018-as one of the world's most influential minds. In 2018 and 2019, the award as World Class Professor was bestowed on him by the Ministry of Research, Technology and Higher Education, Indonesia. In 2011, he received his habilitation in remote sensing from the Dresden University of Technology, Germany. Since March 2015, he has served as the Humboldt Ambassador Scientist for the Alexander Von Humboldt Foundation, Germany. Dr. Pradhan is the recipient of the prestigious German Academic Exchange Research (DAAD) fellowship award. He has more than 18 years of teaching, research, consultancy and industrial experience. Of his more than 550 articles, over 450 have been published in science citation index (SCI/SCIE) technical journals. He has written 8 Books and 13 book chapters. He is a member of many international professional bodies such as the Committee of Space research (COSPAR), a senior member of IEEE and United Nations Outer Space Research Programme (UNOOSA), among many others. He sits as a board member of many national programmes in Southeast Asia. He is a regular reviewer for many international bodies such as the European Science Foundation, Dutch Research Council, Austrian Science Foundation, Research Council UK (RCUK), Swiss National Science Foundation, Belgian Remote Sensing Programme and many more. He is an associate editor and an editorial member of more than 8 ISI journals.