Climate Change Impact on Soil Erosion in Sub-tropical Environment

​Dr. Subodh Chandra Pal is Assistant Professor at the Department of Geography of the University of Burdwan in India. He has completed his Doctoral research in the fields of Hydrogeomorphology. His fields of expertise are Fluvial Geomorphology, Pedo-geomorphology, Land Degradation, Soil Erosion, Gully Erosion, Landslide Vulnerability and Climate Change. His current research is focused on understanding fluvial processes causing hazards and disaster, forest health monitoring, machine learning techniques, climate change impact and vulnerability assessment.Rabin Chakrabortty is a Research Scholar at the Department of Geography of the University of Burdwan in India. His research interests include Land Degradation, Soil Erosion, Gully Erosion, Climate Change, Geospatial approaches in Natural Hazard Management and Monitoring, Machine Learning and Image Processing and Hybrid Image Generation. He is specialized in Pedogeomorphologyand has published 30 research papers as well as five book chapters.

• Chapter 1. Introduction to Soil Erosion Study.- Chapter 2. Geo-physical Settings of South Bengal.- Chapter 3. Morphotectonics Characteristics and its control on Soil Erosion.- Chapter 4. Estimation of Surface Runoff.- Chapter 5. Soil Loss Estimation using different Empirical and Semi-empirical Models.- Chapter 6. Potential Sediment Yield Estimation using Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence Techniques and GIS.- Chapter 7. Impact of Climate and LULC Change on Soil Erosion.- Chapter 8. Socio-political policy implication.