Dr. Debajit Datta

Assistant Professor Department of Geography Jadavpur University, Kolkata – 700032

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Education Degree Year University Ph.D. 2012 Indian Institute of Technology M.Sc 2006 University of Calcutta B.Sc 2004 Presidency College (University of Calcutta)

Teaching Experience Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, (15 October, 2015 - Present) Assistant Professor of Geography in Taki Government College, , India (West Bengal Education Service) from 18.11.2010-14.11.2015

Industrial Experience (0)

Field of Specialization Regional Planning

Courses Taught/ Teaching Environmental Geography, Climatology, Landscape Ecology, Urban Geography, Geographical Thought, Statistical Techniques

Research Area Natural Resource Management, Political Ecology, Urbanization and Rural Environmental Change, Ecosystem Services and Payments, Sustainable Tourism

Experience Doctoral Research Fellow: 3 years Teaching: 10 years

Conference Papers Published (Since 2015) Vol. Number- Title of the paper Conference Year Role Page Number Ethnic identity, electoral politics UGC sponsored National ISBN: 978-93- and women: a geographical inquiry seminar on ‘Women Corresponding 2017 81037-66-9 of Koch-Rajbanshi sovereignty empowerment: a third world author (254-264) movements in North Bengal perspective” Humanized landscapes, forest National seminar on degradation and livelihood losses: a ‘Remote Sensing and GIS in ISBN: 978-81- Corresponding geospatial analysis of forest cover Environmental 2017 921692-8-6 author changes in district of West Management’. ISBN: 978- (10-19) Bengal 81-921692-8-6

Journal Papers Published (Since 2015) Vol. Number- Title of the paper Journal Year Role Page Number An alternative approach to delineate First and wetland influence zone of a tropical Estuarine, Coastal and 2021 Corresponding 253:107308 intertidal mudflat using geo- Shelf Science Author information technology Longterm monitoring of cropland transformation in Kolkata Corresponding SN Applied Sciences 2021 3:98-117 Metropolitan Area, India using author opensource geospatial technologies Asian Studies: Journal First and Insurgencies in Northeast India: the of Critical Perspectives 2020 Corresponding 56(1):94-106 case of the Gorkhaland Movement on Asia Author Immediate disturbances induced by Remote Sensing tropical cyclone Fani on the coastal Corresponding 20(2020):1004 Applications: Society 2020 forest landscape of eastern India: A author 07 and Environment geospatial analysis Typological inventorization and rapid ecological health assessment of the Corresponding Folia Geographica 2020 62(2):22-47 wetlands of Medinipur Coastal Plain, author India Avifauna habitability of wetlands in Environmental an intensive cultural landscape: Corresponding Monitoring and 2020 192(6):1-16 insights from the Ichhamati author Assessment floodplains, India Geospatial analysis of the effects of tsunami on coral and mangrove Brazilian Journal of Corresponding 2019 67:1-10 ecosystems of Mayabunder in Oceanography author Andaman Islands, India Quest for identity: linking ethnicity, Human Geographies- electoral politics and violence in Journal of Studies and Corresponding 2019 13(1):1-18 Koch-Rajbanshi sovereignty Research in Human author movement of India Geography Analyzing the effects of afforestation Environmental on estuarine environment of river Monitoring and Corresponding 190(11):645- Subarnarekha, India using geospatial 2018 Assessment (Springer) author 660 technologies and participatory IF: 1.804 appraisals Assessment of mangrove management Wetland Ecology and alternatives in village-fringe forests of Management (Springer) 2018 Sole author 26(3):399-413 Indian Sunderbans: resilient initiatives IF: 1.508 or short-term nature exploitations? An alternative approach for estimating Environmental above ground biomass using Monitoring and Corresponding 189(11):576- Resourcesat-2 satellite data and 2017 Assessment (Springer) author 588 artificial neural network in IF: 1.804 Bundelkhand region of India Forest structure and soil properties of mangrove ecosystems under different Ocean and Coastal Corresponding 140(2017):22- management scenarios: Experiences Management (Elsevier) 2017 author 33 from the intensely humanized IF: 1.696 landscape of Indian Sunderbans Local tourism initiative in an eastern Himalayan village: sustainable Bulletin of Geography: 27(2015):33- 2015 First Author ecotourism or small scale nature Socio-economic Series 49 exploitation? Evaluating sustainability of Singapore Journal of community endeavours in an Indian 36(2015):38- Tropical Geography 2015 First Author floodplain wetland using multi-criteria 56 (Wiley) IF: 0.638 decision analysis

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Awards (2) Awarded by Award Name Year JU RUSA 2.0 Travel Grant to attend the 10th IALE World Congress on ‘Nature and Society Facing Support to the Anthropocene Challenges and Perspectives for Landscape Ecology at Milan, Italy 2019 Faculty on 01-05 July, 2019 Members Travel Grant for College/ University Faculties to attend the Eleventh International UGC Conference on Environmental, Cultural, Economic and Social Sustainability at 2015 Copenhagen, Denmark on 21-23 January, 2015

Ph.D. Thesis Guidance (7) Index Name Title Status Number A Study of Tropical Coastal Wetlands of Mansa Dey 68/21/Geo/27 On-going -Baleshwar Coastal Stretch Brackish Water Aquaculture in Purba Mrinmoyee Naskar 20/20/Geo./26 On-going Medinipur Coastal Plain Asit Kumar Roy Agroecosystem Services of Wetlands 186/16/Geo./25 On-going Changing Ecosystem Health of Wetlands of Jibananda Gayen 172/16/Geo./25 On-going North 24 Parganas, West Bengal An Integrated Approach for Assessing Shrabana Sengupta Sustainability of Urban and Peri-urban 173/16/Geo./25 Submitted Agriculture in Kolkata Metropolitan Area The Political Ecology of Koch-Rajbanshi Chandreyi Sovereignty Movements in West Bengal and 112/16/Geo./24 Awarded Sengupta Assam: Resource, Power and Governance Mobility of Women with Urbanization and Mohana Basu Social Change in 231/16/Geo./25 Awarded Development Area

M.Phil. Thesis Guidance (1) Name Title Registration Number Status Habitat status of Fiddler Crab (Uca Jai Gopal Nath Sarkar rosea) in Junput Mudflat of West 142850 Awarded Bengal, India

MASTER Thesis Guidance (11) 05 completed; 06 on-going

Project Works (6) Amount Funding Time of Title Role Status (INR) Agency Initiation Development of Integrated Database for Sustainable Land Resource Management at February, Joint 2,493,400/- JU RUSA 2.0 Completed Village Level in Selected 2019 Coordinator Blocks of District, West Bengal Assessment of Above Ground Biomass Dynamics of Vegetation Communities for February, Principal Sustainable Environmental 566,800/- JU RUSA 2.0 Completed 2019 Investigator Management along Digha- Sankarpur Coastal Stretch, India using SAR Data Science and Spatially Explicit Estimation of Engineering Wetland Carbon Stocks in the Research Contai-Baleshwar Coastal Board, December, Principal 3,033,800/- On-going Stretch, India by Integrating Department of 2018 Investigator Elemental Analysis and Science and Geospatial Technologies Technology, GoI Woman Scientist Remote Sensing Based Coral Scheme-A Habitat Suitability Mapping and (WOS-A), December, Mentor 1,604,000/- Completed Conservation along Andaman Department of 2017 Scientist and Nicobar Island Science and Technology, GoI Assessment of Ecological Sustainability of Urban and March, Principal 1,000,000/- UGC-BSR Completed Peri-Urban Agriculture in 2017 Investigator Kolkata Metropolitan Area Delineation of Urban and Peri- Urban Agricultural Areas in JU Research Principal Kolkata Metropolitan Area 50,000/- 2016 Completed Grant Investigator Based on Crop Type and Crop Health

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Invited Lectures (8)

Title Organized by Venue Year Sundarban-Its Livelihood South Asian Institute for Advanced Research and Webinar 2020 and Sustainability Development, Kolkata Climate Change and Urban Environment: Patterns, Women’s Christian College, Kolkata Webinar 2020 Externalities and Mitigation Environment and Kashipur Michael Madhusudan Mahavidyalaya, Sustainability: Land, Water Webinar 2020 and Ecosystem Perspective Climatic Hazards and Sree Chaitanya College, Webinar 2020 Resilience Impacts of Cyclonic Disturbances on the Coastal PCM College, Kolkata Webinar 2020 Areas of Odisha and West Bengal Resilience in Mangrove Jadavpur Management: Experiences Global Change Program, JU 2019 University from Indian Application of Quantitative Jadavpur Techniques in Spatial Centre of Human Settlement Planning, JU 2018 University Planning An Appraisal of the Mangrove Management Alternatives in Village-fringe Sripat Singh Forests of Indian Sripat Singh College, College, 2017 Sunderbans: Resilient Murshidabad Initiatives or Short-term Nature Exploitations?

Membership of Learned Societies (5) Board member and ‘Regional Contact for South Asia’ of the Young Geographer Working Group of Asian Geographical Association Life member of the International Society of Tropical Foresters Life Member of the IGU Commission of ‘Landscape Analysis and Landscape Planning' Member of the International Association for Landscape Ecology Life member of the Geographical Society of India, Kolkata Life member of the Indian Institute of Geographers, Pune

Orientation/Refresher/QIP Course Attended/Organized (6) Course Sponsor Venue Year Refresher Course on ‘Information and Communication University of UGC 2020 Technology’ held from 24 August - 5 September, 2020 Hyderabad Indian Institute of Short-term training programme on ‘Coastal and Ocean - Remote Sensing, 2019 Management’ held from 28 January – 1 February, 2019 Dehradun, India Women’s Christian Resource Person in the ‘Workshop on Statistical Methods - Girls College, 2017 and Techniques of Spatial Analysis’ from 11-17 July, 2017 Kolkata, India GIAN course on ‘Soil Moisture and Soil Hydraulic Indian Institute of Properties at Micro and Macro-Scales for Water Resources - Technology, 2016 Management’ held from 26-30 December, 2016 Bhubaneswar Interdisciplinary Refresher Course on ‘Disaster Jadavpur UGC 2016 Management’ held from 20 October - 11 November, 2016 University Administrative Bongaon Block Resource person in the workshop on ‘Block Level Hazards, Training Development 2015 Risks & Vulnerabilities Assessment’ on 12 June, 2015 Institute, Kolkata Office Indian Institute of Short-term course on ‘Multivariate Data Analysis’ held - Technology, 2015 from 1-6 June, 2015 Kharagpur

Seminar/Conference/Workshop (13) Type of Programme Name Organized by Venue Year Participation Third National Seminar on Mizoram University, Paper ‘Natural Resource Management Mizoram University 2019 Aizawl presentation for Sustainable Development’ Tenth IALE World Congress on University of ‘Nature and society facing the University of Milano- Paper Milano-Bicocca at 2019 Anthropocene: challenges and Bicocca presentation Milano, Italy perspectives’ Ireland India Institute, Third Ireland India Institute Dublin City Co-author with Dublin City 2019 Conference on South Asia, 2019 University, Ireland the presenter University International Conference on ‘Global Water Crisis: Agriculture Aligarh Muslim Aligarh Muslim Co-author with 2018 and Food Security in the Era of University University, India the presenter Climate Change’ 13th DGSI International Geography Conference on Bangalore Paper Bangalore University 2018 ‘Sustainable Rural Development- University, India presentation Geospatial Solutions’ 14th Biennial Conference of Asian Hebrew University of Hebrew University Paper 2018 Studies in Israel Jerusalem of Jerusalem, Israel presentation 4th International Seminar on ‘Population, Urbanization and Gour Banga Gour Banga Paper 2018 Environment: Contemporary University University, India presentation Issues and Challenges’ Norwegian Norwegian University University of NTNU Sustainability Science Paper of Science and Science and 2017 Conference, 2017 presentation Technology Technology at Trondheim, Norway International Seminar and 48th Regional Science Conference on Tripura University, Paper ‘Rural Habitat, Institutions and Tripura University 2017 India presentation Development: Changing Nature and Challenges’ 9th International Geographical Union (IGU) Conference on ‘Land IGU and SBS College, Paper University of Delhi 2016 Use Change, Climate Extremes University of Delhi presentation and Disaster Risk Reduction’ National Seminar on ‘Biodiversity Indian Statistical Indian Statistical Co-author with Conservation and Sustainable Institute, Giridih, 2015 Institute the presenter Development’ Jharkhand Eleventh International Conference On Sustainability on Environmental, Cultural, Copenhagen, Paper Knowledge 2015 Economic and Social Denmark presentation Community Sustainability

Session chaired (2)

Type of Programme Name Organized by Venue Year Participation Third National Seminar on Mizoram Mizoram University, ‘Natural Resource Management University, 2019 Co-chairperson Aizawl for Sustainable Development’ Aizawl International Seminar and 48th Regional Science Conference Tripura Tripura University, Co-chairperson (2 on ‘Rural Habitat, Institutions University, 2017 Agartala sessions) and Development: Changing Agartala Nature and Challenges’

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Other Notable Activities (3) 1. Associate Editor of Ecological Processes (Springer) 2. Editorial Board Member of Sustainable Marine Structures (Nan Yang Academy of Sciences) 3. Reviewer for Agriculture, Ecosystems, and Environment; Animal Biodiversity and Conservation; Anthropocene; Arabian Journal of Geosciences; Bulletin of Geography-Socio- economic Series; Ecological Indicators; Environment, Development and Sustainability; Environmental Engineering and Management Journal; Environmental Monitoring and Assessment; Journal of the Indian Society of Remote Sensing; International Forestry Review; Journal of Environmental Management; Journal of Sustainable Development; Ocean and Coastal Management; Pedosphere; Science of the Total Environment; Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography; The Egyptian Journal of Remote Sensing and Space Sciences; Wetland Ecology and Management, Wetlands