Urban Flood Mitigation Strategies Using Geo Spatial Tools (eBook, ePUB)

Narendar Kumar is working as an urban planner with the Sustainable Cities & Transport program at World Resources Institute (WRI) India and lives in village Lasedi of district Churu, Rajasthan, India. He is a trained geographer and spatial planner with four years of experience in the fields of urban and regional planning. He has worked at the School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi; Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur; IIT-Guwahati; and Nagpur Municipal Corporation for various projects of town planning. He has largely worked on the preparation of the master plans, regional plans, and zonal development plans. He has also worked on the Zonal Master Plan of Nahargarh Wildlife Sanctuary and Eco-Sensitive Zone, and the National Rurban Mission, Government of India. Additionally, he was engaged as an assistant professor as a visiting faculty member at Jagannath University, Jaipur, where he taught in the M.Tech urban planning discipline. Mr. Kumar is an honored life Associate of the Institute of Town Planners, India (ITPI), New Delhi, and he is interested in teaching, research, writing books and monographs, and learning across disciplines.