This book contributes significantly to the international literature by bringing forth a novel and comprehensive exploration of urban resilience in the face of climate change and environmental pollution. Its focus on integrating physiological, biochemical, and molecular dimensions distinguishes it from existing literature.
The book offers several key contributions, including an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the complex interactions within urban ecosystems. It includes cutting-edge insights that have not been extensively explored in existing literature, practical applications, and evidence-based strategies to enhance urban sustainability and resilience. The book has a global relevance to a diverse international readership and provides strategic guidance to policymakers and urban planners when making decisions to develop evidence-based strategies that cater to the specific challenges of cities.
Urban forests play a critical role in enhancing the resilience of cities by providing numerous benefits, including improved air quality, reduced urban heat island effect, and enhanced biodiversity, ultimately improving urban health. Besides, urban forests are a crucial natural-based solution (NbS) to mitigate air pollution and climate change impacts in cities. However, in the face of climate change and environmental pressures, urban forests face significant challenges to their survival and functionality. This book explores the complex morpho-physio-biochemical and molecular changes that enable urban forests to flourish amidst climate change and environmental pollution. It examines how urban trees modulate their morphological structures, including root systems and physiological and biochemical functioning, and molecular alterations to withstand changing urban climatic and environmental conditions.
Chapter
1. Climate Change and Environmental Pollution: Biological
Consequences on Urban Forests.
Chapter
2. Urban Forests: Importance,
Challenges and Opportunities.
Chapter
3. Urbanization and Climate Change:
Impacts, Adaption and Mitigation Strategies.
Chapter
4. Biological Insights
into the Adaptive Responses of Medicinal Plants to Changing Urban
Environments.
Chapter
5. Unraveling Urban Plant Strategies for Heavy Metal
Uptake and Detoxification.
Chapter
6. Tree species suitability for adapting
to urban air pollution and climate change.
Chapter
7. Phenological Shifts in
Forest Ecosystems: A Strategic Response to Climate Change and Environmental
Stress.
Chapter
8. Understanding the Impact of Climate Change and
Environments on Urban Forests: Insights from Morphological, Physiological,
and Molecular Perspectives.
Chapter
9. Unveiling the Arboreal Responses to
Edaphic Factors in Urban Forest Ecosystems.
Chapter
10. Alteration in
Biochemical and Molecular Expression of Trees in Response to Changing
Climatic and Environmental Pollution.
Chapter
11. Plant growth
regulators/promoters mediated adaptation and tolerances in urban plants for
enhancing resilience towards multiple stresses.
Chapter
12. Enhancing
Adaptation and Stress Tolerance in Urban Plants through Plant
Growth-Promoting Rhizobacteria (PGPR).
Chapter
13. Enhancing Urban
Sustainability through Heavy Metal Extraction: Mechanisms, Challenges, and
Environmental Impact.
Chapter
14. Urban Tree Responses to Climate Change and
Environmental Pollution.
Chapter
15. Biological Insights into Forest
Adaptation to Climate Change: Ecosystem Resilience and Adaptation.
Chapter
16. Unraveling the Tapestry of Plant Phenology in the Face of Climate Change
and Environmental Stress.
Chapter
17. Role of Urban Forests in Modulating
Urban Climate.
Chapter
18. Urban Forests and Carbon Sequestration.
Chapter
19. Urban Tree Selection and Management Strategies for Climate Adaptation.-
Chapter
20. Ecosystem services provided by urban and peri-urban forests.-
Chapter
21. Ecosystem Services and Maintaining Their Flow in Urban
Environments: Nurturing Sustainable Flow in Urban Environments.
Chapter
22.
Advancing Urban Forest Resilience: Strategies, Challenges, and Innovations in
the Face of Climate and Environmental Change.
Chapter
23. Urban Forests:
Benefits, Barriers, and Sustainable Solutions.
Chapter
24. Stubble Burning
and Urban Environmental Pollution: Impacts and Control Measures.
Chapter
25.
Urban Forests and Microclimate Regulation.
Chapter
26. The Potential of
Peoples Engagement by Green Taxation to Maintain Urban Green Space.
Chapter
27. Biotechnological Innovations in Urban Forestry: Adapting and Mitigating
Climate Change and Environmental Pollution.
Chapter
28. Molecular and Gene
Expression in Plants under Climate Change and Urban Environment.
Chapter
29.
Molecular insights into the modulation of gene expression in trees under
abiotic stresses.
Chapter
30. Biological Consequences of Cell Phone
Radiation on Plants in Urban Environments.
Chapter
31. Consequences of
Artificial Light at Night (ALAN) on Urban Tree Functioning: A Case Study.-
Chapter
32. Understanding the Carbon Sequestration Potential of Urban Gardens
and Parks: Implications for Sustainable Urban Planning and Environmental
Conservation.
Chapter
33. Role of Urban Trees in Minimizing the Atmospheric
Carbon Dioxide Level of the Megacity of Kolkata, India.
Chapter
34. Adaptive
Strategies of Quercusleucotrichophora in Different Environmental Gradients:
Modulations in Leaf Biophysical and Biochemical Functional Traits.
Chapter
35. Examining Turgor Maintenance Mechanisms in Rhododendron arboreum and
Quercus lanata within Shivapuri Nagarjun National Park, Nepal.
Chapter
36.
Regulation of Ambient Air Temperature through Trees: A Comparison between
Industrial and Rural Belt in the State of West Bengal, India.
Chapter
37.
Hydrological Variability in Indian Forest Ecosystem: Analysis of Drought
Resilience, Recovery and Water Use Efficiency in Moist and Dry Deciduous
Forests.
Chapter
38. Climate Change-Induced Forest Ecosystem Functioning and
Alteration in Water-Atmosphere-Soil-Plant (WASP) Relationship.
Chapter
39.
Climate-Induced Changes in Forest Ecosystems of Indian Himalayan Region: A
Meta-Analysis.
Chapter
40. Policies, Strategies, and Regulatory Framework
for Sustainable Urban Forest Management.
Hukum Singh is a forest physiology and climate change scientist associated with the Forest Research Institute in Dehradun, India. His research covers eco-physiology, plant responses to abiotic stresses, climate-smart forestry, climate change adaptation and mitigation, urban pollution, urban forestry, and more.
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