Geo-Spatial Analysis of Forest Landscape for Wildlife Management (eBook)

Dr. Nilanjana Das Chatterjee is Professor and former HOD in the Department of Geography, Vidyasagar University, West Bengal, India. She received her Ph.D. award from Burdwan University in 2009. She is an expert in the field of Bio-geography with special reference to human-elephant conflict in forest fringes and fragmented forest, Environment, Landscape ecology with special reference to urban ecology, Tribal Culture and Women's studies. She has nearly 25 years of experience in research and teaching, and has authored more than 80 national and international research articles with high impact factor journals and received many prestigious awards. She is one of the twenty women scientists recognized by the Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun. She is an enthusiastic IUCN Commission member of CEM. Seven research scholars achieved their Ph.D. award and twelve students completed their M Phil degree under her supervision. She has completed a major project funded by ICSSR, New Delhi. Now she has completed a research programme funded by ICSSR on 'Crime against Women West Bengal'. She has authored the book 'Man Elephant Conflict: A case study from forests in West Bengal, India' published from Springer in 2016 and co-author of the book River Sand Mining Modelling and Sustainable Practice:The Kangsabati River, India, published from Springer Environmental Science and Engineering Series in 2021.Recently she has published another book on GIS Application for crime prediction: A spatio-temporal analysis for crime against women in West Bengal, India.  Being a devoted teacher her passion is to maintain a good student teacher relationship.