Sustainable Development Goals in Northeast India Challenges and Achievements

“This is an excellent resource for scholars, policymakers, and practitioners interested in promoting sustainable development in complex and diverse ecosystems. … the editors Anand et al. (2023) make an essential contribution to the SDG literature by providing a complete, multidisciplinary approach … . Whether you are an academic, a policy specialist, or someone genuinely concerned about the future of Northeast India, this book is a motivating and fascinating read … .” (Venkat Rao Pulla and Subash Sharma, Space and Culture, India, Vol. 12 (3), 2024) 

Subhash Anand is currently a Professor at the Department of Geography, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi, India. He has to his credit 25 years of teaching and research experience and published 07 books (including Urban Health Risk and Resilience in Asian Cities, Water Science and Sustainability, and Global Geographical Heritage, Geoparks and Geotourism by Springer Nature) and more than 75 research papers, articles and chapters in high reputed journals and books. He has specialization in Urban Environmental Issues, Sustainable Cities, Solid Waste Management & Planning, Geotourism. Prof. Anand is  Associate Editor-in- Chief of the International Journal of Geoheritage and Parks (Elsevier) and also Vice-Chair of Commission on Geoheritage and Parks, International Geographical Union (IGU). He is also on the editorial boards of many reputed journals. He has supervised several Ph.D, M.Phil & Master theses and dissertations. Prof. Anand possesses administrative experience having worked in various capacities in different organizations. He has done successful UGEC & SARCS advanced training workshop on Urban Spatial Planning in response to Climate Change in Asia, in Taipei, and Commonwealth Geographical Bureau (CGB) workshop on Human Consequences of Climate Change at University of Colombo. He has widely travelled and participated in several international conferences, seminars & workshops and delivered lectures in various countries. He is recipient of Dr. Rajendra Prasad Award by International Eminent Educationist Forum of India.

Madhushree Das is the head of the Department of Geography, Gauhati University, and is a social and cultural geographer, working in the field of gender and tribal geography. She has more than 25 years of teaching and research experience and has published 3 books and more than 45 research papers. She currently supervises 8 Ph.D. scholars. Under her supervision, 7 students have received Ph.D. degrees and 6 have been awarded M.Phil. degrees. She participated in the Commonwealth Geographical Bureau Workshop on Human Consequences on Climate Change at the University of Colombo (Sri Lanka) in 2005 and received the International Geographical Award three times to present her research in Durban (South Africa), Cologne (Germany), Szeged (Hungary) and Kyoto (Japan). She also presented her research in Boston, USA, in 2017. She has initiated an academic collaboration with the Royal Geographical Society, London, and has visited the University of Sydney, New South Wales, and Canberra in Australia as part of the Gauhati University team in connection with academic links and the opening of Gauhati University Alumni chapter in Australia. She was the general secretary of the North East India Geographical Society from 2016 to 2018.

Rituparna Bhattacharyya holds a Ph.D. from the School of Geography, Politics and Sociology, University of Newcastle, UK. She is a Senior Fellow, Advance HE (formerly Higher Education Academy), UK, and an Adjunct Professor, Indian Insitute of Technology, Guwahati. She also works as a research consultant and editor-in-chief (Joint) of the journal Space and Culture, India. She does volunteer work at the Prag Foundation for Capacity Building, a public charitable trust in India, and the Alliance for Community Capacity Building for North East India, a UK-registered charity. She has more than 65 publications to her credit in international outlets.






R.B. Singh was the secretary general and treasurer of the International Geographical Union and a former head of the Department of Geography, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi, India (2013–2016 and 2019–2020). He has supervised 40 Ph.D. and 81 M.Phil. research scholars and numerous M.A. students. He has been the chair of the University Grants Commission (UGC) National Committee’s Learning Outcome Based Curriculum Framework since July 2018. He was invited by the InterAcademy Partnership (IAP)–Global Network of Science Academies to join a working group for statements on science and technology for disaster risk reduction. Prof. Singh was unanimously elected president of the Earth System Science Section of the Indian Science Congress Association for 2019–2020. The National Institution for Transforming India (NITI) Aayog, Government of India, invited him to be a member of the committee for preparing Vision India 2035. He has authored 16 books and edited 40 books, with more than 250 research papers published in national and international journals. He is the series editor of Advances in Geographical and Environmental Sciences (Springer) and Sustainable Development Goals (Springer). He was awarded the prestigious Japan Society for Promotion of Science (JSPS) Research Fellowship at Hiroshima in 2013 and several travel fellowships and support from various organisations.