Prof Mehebub Sahana is currently a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow and Lecturer in GIS in the Department of Geography at The University of Manchester, UK. He is a cultural and environmental geographer with an interest in analysing land-use changes. Conceptually, his work focuses on landscape alterations and consequences on sustainability issues in developing countries. His present research interests include social-environmental interface, socio-ecological resilience and systems thinking; land cover change; rural-urban conversion and the socio-political implications of land-use dynamics. Dr Sahana contributes as a specialist analyst to the Peri-cene project that investigates peri-urbanization and climate risk in city-regions around the world.

• Section I: Peri-urban interfaces and global change1. GIS application on mapping and identification of peri-urban areas2. Urban and peri-urban land use dynamics3. Remote sensing and GIS on urban environmental change4. Landscape ecological analysis5. Urban growth and fringe development6. Rural-urban linkagesSection II: Urban and peri-urban land use dynamics7. Monitoring, mapping, and assessing the urban spatial patterns8. Urban form, structure and landscape function9. Land transformation and peri-urban land use changes10. The Environmental and Social Impacts of Peri-Urban agriculture11. Peri-urban wetland and ecological degradationSection III: Peri-urban interface and ecosystems services12. Peri urban water supply and sanitation13. Peri-Urban Ecosystems and Societies14. Horticulture and vegetable farming at the Peri-Urban Interface15. Livelihoods from Dairying Enterprises in the Peri-Urban16. Waste-Fed Fisheries in Peri-Urban17. Livelihoods of Pastoralists in the Peri-Urban Interface18. Peri-urban ecosystems service and Carbon sequestrationSection IV: The Peri-Urban interface: planning and management19. Peri-Urban growth in the megacities of Developing Countries20. Environmental Change and Rural-Urban Interactions21. Policies, Strategies and the Peri-Urban Interface22. Environmental Management in urban and Peri-Urban areas23. Peri-urbanisation & climate-environment interactions

Prof Mehebub Sahana is currently a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow and Lecturer in GIS in the Department of Geography at The University of Manchester, UK. He is a cultural and environmental geographer with an interest in analysing land-use changes. Conceptually, his work focuses on landscape alterations and consequences on sustainability issues in developing countries. His present research interests include social-environmental interface, socio-ecological resilience and systems thinking; land cover change; rural-urban conversion and the socio-political implications of land-use dynamics. Dr Sahana contributes as a specialist analyst to the Peri-cene project that investigates peri-urbanization and climate risk in city-regions around the world.

• Section I: Peri-urban interfaces and global change1. GIS application on mapping and identification of peri-urban areas2. Urban and peri-urban land use dynamics3. Remote sensing and GIS on urban environmental change4. Landscape ecological analysis5. Urban growth and fringe development6. Rural-urban linkagesSection II: Urban and peri-urban land use dynamics7. Monitoring, mapping, and assessing the urban spatial patterns8. Urban form, structure and landscape function9. Land transformation and peri-urban land use changes10. The Environmental and Social Impacts of Peri-Urban agriculture11. Peri-urban wetland and ecological degradationSection III: Peri-urban interface and ecosystems services12. Peri urban water supply and sanitation13. Peri-Urban Ecosystems and Societies14. Horticulture and vegetable farming at the Peri-Urban Interface15. Livelihoods from Dairying Enterprises in the Peri-Urban16. Waste-Fed Fisheries in Peri-Urban17. Livelihoods of Pastoralists in the Peri-Urban Interface18. Peri-urban ecosystems service and Carbon sequestrationSection IV: The Peri-Urban interface: planning and management19. Peri-Urban growth in the megacities of Developing Countries20. Environmental Change and Rural-Urban Interactions21. Policies, Strategies and the Peri-Urban Interface22. Environmental Management in urban and Peri-Urban areas23. Peri-urbanisation & climate-environment interactions

Prof Mehebub Sahana is currently a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow and Lecturer in GIS in the Department of Geography at The University of Manchester, UK. He is a cultural and environmental geographer with an interest in analysing land-use changes. Conceptually, his work focuses on landscape alterations and consequences on sustainability issues in developing countries. His present research interests include social-environmental interface, socio-ecological resilience and systems thinking; land cover change; rural-urban conversion and the socio-political implications of land-use dynamics. Dr Sahana contributes as a specialist analyst to the Peri-cene project that investigates peri-urbanization and climate risk in city-regions around the world.

• Section I: Peri-urban interfaces and global change1. GIS application on mapping and identification of peri-urban areas2. Urban and peri-urban land use dynamics3. Remote sensing and GIS on urban environmental change4. Landscape ecological analysis5. Urban growth and fringe development6. Rural-urban linkagesSection II: Urban and peri-urban land use dynamics7. Monitoring, mapping, and assessing the urban spatial patterns8. Urban form, structure and landscape function9. Land transformation and peri-urban land use changes10. The Environmental and Social Impacts of Peri-Urban agriculture11. Peri-urban wetland and ecological degradationSection III: Peri-urban interface and ecosystems services12. Peri urban water supply and sanitation13. Peri-Urban Ecosystems and Societies14. Horticulture and vegetable farming at the Peri-Urban Interface15. Livelihoods from Dairying Enterprises in the Peri-Urban16. Waste-Fed Fisheries in Peri-Urban17. Livelihoods of Pastoralists in the Peri-Urban Interface18. Peri-urban ecosystems service and Carbon sequestrationSection IV: The Peri-Urban interface: planning and management19. Peri-Urban growth in the megacities of Developing Countries20. Environmental Change and Rural-Urban Interactions21. Policies, Strategies and the Peri-Urban Interface22. Environmental Management in urban and Peri-Urban areas23. Peri-urbanisation & climate-environment interactions