Dr. Uday Chatterjee is an Assistant Professor in the Geography Department at Bhatter College, Dantan, India. He received his PhD from the Ravenshaw University, Odisha, India. His research papers have been published in various national and international journals. He has authored and co-authored several chapters for edited book volumes and has co-edited the book Harmony with Nature: Illusions and Elusions from Geographer´s Perspective in the 21st Century´ published in 2018 by Bhatter College Publications. His areas of research are urban planning, social environmental and human geography, and applied geomorphology. His research work has been funded by the WBPCB, Government of West Bengal, India. He has served as a reviewer for many international journals and he is a Life Member of eight academic societies. In 2017 directed the Faculty Development Program sponsored by ICSSR, Government of India. Dr. Arindam Biswas is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Architecture and Planning, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee, India. He has a PhD in Urban Planning from the University of Tokyo. He is recipient of ASEM Duo-India Fellowship, DAAD Fellowship (Government of Germany) and MEXT Scholarship (Government of Japan). He is presently pursuing researches sponsored by different research foundations of Government of India like Department of Science and Technology (DST), Ministry of Environment Forest and Climate. He has published two editorial books and contributed in two book chapters. He has also extensively published research articles on urban infrastructure, inclusive growth, resilience, housing and informality, innovation and regional development. Dr Jenia Mukherjee is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. Her research interest spans across urban studies and environmental history. She received the Australian Leadership Awards Fellowship in 2010 and 2015. She completed her book project: Blue infrastructures: Natural Ecology, Political History and Urban Development in Kolkata (Singapore: Springer Nature, 2020), and has contributed several book chapters in edited volumes. She also has widely published in peer-reviewed impact factor journals including Environment and Planning E, International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development, Urban Research and Practice, etc. She is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board: Routledge Equity, Justice and the Sustainable City series. Dinabandhu Mahata is a Researcher at the Department of Geography, Central University of Tamil Nadu and former research officer at the Department of Development Studies in International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS), Mumbai, India. He is the recipient of the Government of India Fellowship during the study of Master of Population Studies (MPS) and Master of Philosophy (M.Phil) at the Department of Development Studies in IIPS, Mumbai, India. His work mainly focuses on urban geography, and its link with the environment. He has written journal articles and book chapters. He received a research grant from the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP) for International Population Conference in Cape Town, South Africa.
