Quality of Life and Climate Change: Impacts, Sustainable Adaptation, and Social-Ecological Resilience

Quality of Life and Climate Change: Impacts, Sustainable Adaptation, and Social-Ecological Resilience delves into the pressing concerns surrounding climate change and its profound impacts on the quality of life (QoL) experienced by individuals and communities worldwide. This book explores the intricate relationship between climate change, variability, and QoL in both rural and urban settings. It undertakes a detailed review of QoL assessments to examine the extent to which climatic changes and livability conditions are incorporated into existing evaluations. By shedding light on the critical need to consider climatic factors in measuring and comparing QoL, especially in the context of creating aging-friendly and climate-neutral cities, this publication addresses a significant research gap. This book presents prospective themes, including sustainable solutions, mitigation strategies, and models to enhance socio-ecological resilience. The chapters within the book cover a wide range of topics including climatic variations and future projections, technological advancements in climate change mitigation, implications for residential and non-residential areas, industrial solutions, SDG attainment, mitigation strategies, QoL measurement instruments, and urban QoL models. By addressing these themes, the book provides a comprehensive analysis of the complex interactions between climate change, QoL, and the pursuit of sustainable development. This book serves as a valuable resource for researchers, academicians, policymakers, civil society groups, think tanks, government and non-government organizations, international agencies, and other interested parties seeking to deepen their knowledge and capacity in the field of climate change and its impacts on QoL and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) attainment.

Kasturi Shukla , is presently working as Associate Professor at Symbiosis Institute of Health Sciences, Symbiosis International University, Pune, India. She is a trained Hospital Administrator with a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Hospital Administration from IMS, Devi Ahilya University, Indore, India and Ph.D. from King George’s Medical University, Lucknow, India. She was awarded Senior Research Fellowship (SRF) by Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) for her research work during 2009-2011 and she was the recipient of the Vice Chancellor’s Gold Medal for Best PhD thesis in 2012. Dr. Shukla has more than 18 years' experience in academia and industry and is a trainer, researcher and academician. Having published more than 30 original research articles in journals of national and international repute, she has published 2 books and has 3 registered patents to her credit. She has presented research papers in reputed conferences and is on the review board of some of the reputed health journals. She is a Life Member of Academy of Hospital Administration and CAHO, India and other reputed professional bodies. Besides, hospital management and healthcare quality, her core research interest includes Health-Related Quality of Life, Work-Related Quality of Life, Emotional Intelligence, Resilience, Climate change and Sustainability and Green business.

Yogesh Patil is a Professor and Head - Research Publications at the Symbiosis International University, Pune, India. Dr. Patil holds his Doctorate degree in Environmental Sciences from Pune University, India and has over twenty-four years of Post Graduate teaching and research experience in Environmental Science, Management & Technology. His research areas of interest include - waste management, bioremediation, sustainability, climate change and industrial ecology. He has over 60 research papers in national and international journals of repute and has also published two edited books namely, Applied Bioremediation – Active and Passive Approaches (InTech, Croatia) and Reconsidering the Impact of Climate Change on Global Water Supply, Use, and Management (IGI Global, USA). Dr. Patil has undertaken several research/consultancy projects funded by UGC, IFS (Sweden) & OPCW (The Netherlands), World Bank DST and HEMRL. He is recipient of several honours/fellowship awards like DST, CSIR, Best PhD Research Award, UGC-Post Doctoral Fellowship to name a few. He is reviewer of several journals indexed in Scopus and SCI.

Ronald C. Estoque is a Senior Researcher at the Center for Biodiversity and Climate Change, Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute (FFPRI), Japan. He is a forester and geoenvironmental scientist by training. His research interests are at the interface of nature and society, cutting across different fields and topics, including land change science (forest cover change, land use/cover change, urbanization), sustainability science, the forest transition theory, landscape/urban ecology, urban heat islands, ecosystem services, social-ecological systems, quality of life, climate change mitigation, vulnerability, risk, and adaptation, and nexus assessment. He applies various tools and techniques, including GIS, remote sensing, and social-ecological approaches. Dr. Estoque was a contributing author (CA) to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) sixth assessment report (AR6) (WG II, Chapter 10). Currently, he serves as an expert for the Scoping for the IPCC Special Report on Climate Change and Cities, a review editor (RE) for the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services’ (IPBES) nexus assessment (Chapter 2), a section Editor-in-Chief for (section: Sustainable Forestry), a subject editor for , an associate editor for , and a member of the editorial board for and .

Pedro Antonio López de Haro is a Research Professor at the Autonomous Indigenous University of Mexico, he has a PhD in Economics and a Master's degree in Industrial Engineering. He has participated in collaborations with several higher learning institutions and has publications on the topics of sustainable development, technological innovation, economics, production, supply chain and research methodology. He is the author of two books, "The art of Modelling, introduction to Operations Research" and " Mexican Sayings, A Hermeneutical Analysis of Popular Wisdom".