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Intro -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Contents -- About the Editors -- Part I: Overview and Strategies -- 1: Hydro-meteorological Extremes and Disasters: Integrated Risk, Remediation and Sustainability -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Integrated Disaster Management: Concept and Scope -- 1.3 Disaster Management Models -- 1.3.1 Integration in DRR -- 1.3.1.1 Challenges of Increasing Disasters -- 1.3.1.2 Framework of Integrated Disaster Management Strategies -- 1.4 Initiative Taken for Integrated Disaster Management in India and Globally -- 1.5 Suggestions for Integrated Disaster Management Strategies -- 1.5.1 Proposed Approach of Integration for City Resilience -- References -- 2: Public Policy in Environment and Sustainability Strategies: Global & -- National Scenario -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Policy Implementation -- 2.3 History of the International Environment Policy -- 2.4 Policy Initiatives by The Government of India -- 2.4.1 Indian Policies Towards Environmental Protection -- 2.5 Indian Policies Towards Disaster Management -- 2.5.1 Hydro-meteorological Domains and Public Policy -- 2.5.2 Climate Finance and India´s Nationally Determined Contribution -- 2.5.3 One Health Approach -- 2.5.4 Corporate Sustainability Policy -- 2.5.5 Policy Instruments in Environment Concerns -- 2.5.6 Present Policy Scenarios in India -- 2.5.7 Way Forward -- References -- 3: Climate Finance at International and National Level: Needs, Drivers and Sources -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 An Overview of Climate Finance at Global Level -- 3.3 Allocation of Climate Finance -- 3.4 Climate Finance in India -- 3.4.1 Importance of Climate Finance in India -- 3.5 Climate Insurance -- 3.6 Way Forward -- References -- 4: Economic Impacts of Hydroclimatic Extremes and Disasters in India -- 4.1 Background -- 4.1.1 Objective of the Present Study.

Chapter 1. Ecological restoration: An Overview of Science & Policy Regime -- Chapter 2. Lifestyle for Environment: Life Mission and Synergies with Eco-restoration -- Chapter 3. Optimal Management of Potential Water and Sediment Yield from Urban Hilly Watershed -- Chapter 4. Mainstreaming Peri-Urban Ecosystems for Urban Resilience through Policy-Planning Framework: An Opportunity Analysis for Indian Cities -- Chapter 5. Urban Forest and Ecosystem Services Intercede Urban Habitat in Delhi -- Chapter 6. Restoration and rejuvenation of rivers, streams and wetlands: Challenges and way forward -- Chapter 7. Ecosystem services for Water Management: A review of global approaches and experiences -- Chapter 8. Rejuvenation of Rivers in India-A Case Study on efforts for Rejuvenation of River Ganga -- Chapter 9. Rejuvenation of Kukrail Drain -- Chapter 10. Hydrological modelling using HEC-HMS and estimation of the flood peak by Gumbel's method of Hasdeo Basin, Chhattisgarh, India -- Chapter 11. Comparing Runoff of NRCS-CN Method and Observed Runoff Data A Case Study -- Chapter 12. Artificial neural network models for rainfall-runoff modeling in India- studies from of Kolar and Kuttiyadi River watersheds -- Chapter 13. Analysis of urbanization and assessment of its impact on ground water & land use land cover using GIS techniques – Case study of Bhopal & Gurugram district -- Chapter 14. Application of Water Accounting Plus Framework for the assessment of the Water consumption pattern and Food security -- Chapter 15. Comparison of Probability Distributions for Extreme Value Analysis and Predicting Monthly Rainfall Pattern using Bayesian Regularized-ANN -- Chapter 16. An Indexing Method for Evaluating Managerial Effectiveness of a Watershed Project and Functional Involvement of Participant Organisations -- Chapter 17. Pathways to build resilience towards the impact of climate change on the Indian Sunderban -- Chapter 18. Eco-restoration for Climate Resilience and Disaster Risk Reduction -- Chapter 19. Ecosystems and Nature - Based Solutions (NbS) for Health Protection and Epidemic Resilience -- Chapter 20. Fresh Water Ecosystem Conservation for Social Protection, Business, and Local Economy.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Editor Biographies -- List of Contributors -- Preface -- Part I Fundamentals and Framework -- Chapter 1 Introduction to Sustainability and Sustainable Development -- 1.1 Background and Definition -- 1.2 Basic Concepts and Issues -- 1.3 Evolution of Sustainability and Sustainable Development -- 1.4 Challenges and Solutions -- 1.5 Adaptation and Resilience -- 1.6 Economic, Ecological, Social, Technological and Systems Perspectives -- 1.6.1 Economic Aspect -- 1.6.2 Ecological Aspect -- 1.6.3 Social Aspect -- 1.6.4 Technological Aspect -- 1.6.5 Systems Aspect -- 1.6.6 Integrated Aspect -- 1.7 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 2 The Need, Role and Significance of Sustainability -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Three Pillars of Sustainability -- 2.2.1 Economic Development -- 2.2.2 Social Development -- 2.2.3 Environmental Protection -- 2.3 Primary Goals of Sustainability -- 2.3.1 Growth Revival -- 2.3.2 Quality of Growth -- 2.3.3 Essential Needs for Basic Necessities -- 2.3.4 Population Sustainability -- 2.3.5 Conservation and Enhancement of Resources -- 2.3.6 Sustainability of Science and Technology -- 2.3.7 Merging Economics with Environment -- 2.4 Significance of Sustainability -- 2.5 Challenges Toward Sustainability -- 2.5.1 Closing/Bridging Development Gap -- 2.5.2 Forward Steps for the Global World -- 2.5.3 Sustainable Toolkit for Companies -- 2.6 Sustainable Future -- 2.7 Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 3 Sustainable Development: Dimensions, Intersections and Knowledge Platform -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Understanding Complex Systems -- 3.2.1 The Limits to Growth -- 3.2.2 Global Consumption -- 3.2.3 Population and Environment: The IPAT Equation -- 3.2.4 Notions of Strong and Weak Sustainability -- 3.3 Dimensions of Sustainable Development: Economic Dimension.