Resilience and Sustainability for Energy and Water: New Advancements, Opportunities, and Framework

Provides strategies and trends in resilience and sustainability plans, highlighting best practices and presenting case studies from the energy sector and the water industry. Introduces resilience and sustainability and describes some of the basics of energy and water. Details how the green movement can help us achieve a better future.

Cristobal Noe Aguilar, PhD, is Director of Research and Postgraduate Programs at the Universidad Autonoma de Coahuila, Mexico. Dr. Aguilar has published more than 530 papers in indexed journals, and 550 contributions in scientific meetings. He has also edited more than 30 books. He has been awarded several prizes and awards, the most important of which are the National Prize of Research (2010) from the Mexican Academy of Sciences; the Prize CCC-2008 from the Mexican Society of Biotechnology and Bioengineering; National Prize AgroBio-2005; and the Mexican Prize in Food Science and Technology. In 2019 he received the Outstanding Research Award by the International Association of Bioprocessing (IBA). Dr. Aguilar is a member of the Mexican Academy of Science, the Central Council of the International Bioprocessing Association, the Mexican Academy of Sciences, the Mexican Society for Biotechnology and Bioengineering, and the Mexican Association for Food Science and Biotechnology. He has developed more than 41 research projects, including 25 international exchange projects.

A. K. Haghi, PhD, is a retired professor with over 250 academic research-oriented books as well as over 1000 research papers published in various journals and conference proceedings with over 3350 citations and h-index of 30, according to the Google Scholar database. He is currently a senior material engineering consultant in the UK. Professor Haghi has received several grants, consulted for several major corporations, and is a frequent speaker to national and international audiences. He is Founder and former Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Chemoinformatics and Chemical Engineering and Polymers Research Journal. Professor Haghi has acted as an editorial board member of many international journals. He has served as a member of the Canadian Research and Development Center of Sciences & Cultures and the Research Chemistry Centre, Coimbra, Portugal. He has supervised several PhD and MSc theses at the University of Guilan (UG) and co-supervised international doctoral projects. Professor Haghi holds a BSc in urban and environmental engineering from the University of North Carolina (USA) and holds two MSc, one in mechanical engineering from North Carolina State University (USA) and another one in applied mechanics, acoustics, and materials from the Université de Technologie de Compiegne (France). He was awarded a PhD in engineering sciences at Universite de Franche-Comte (France).

Amritanshu Shukla, PhD, is a Professor of Physics at the University of Lucknow (NAAC accredited A++ university), India. Prior to this, he worked as an Associate Professor at the Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology (RGIPT) (set up through an Act of Parliament by the Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas, as an Institute of National Importance on the lines of IITs). His research interests include nuclear physics and physics of renewable energy resources. He has published more than 150 research papers in various international and national journals and conferences. He has delivered invited talks at national and international institutes. Currently, he is working on several national and international projects and has active research collaborations with institutions in India and abroad. His recent book publications include Low Carbon Energy Supply: Trends, Technology, Management; Sustainability through Energy-Efficient Buildings; Energy Security and Sustainability; and Latent Heat-Based Thermal Energy Storage Systems. Dr. Shukla earned his master’s in Physics and completed his PhD from IIT Kharagpur, India. He did his postdoctoral research work at some of the premier institutes across the globe, namely at the Institute of Physics Bhubaneswar (Department of Atomic Energy, Govt. of India); University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, USA; University of Rome/Gran Sasso National Laboratory, Italy; and Physical Research Laboratory Ahmedabad (Department of Space, Govt. of India).

Ann Rose Abraham, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Physics, Sacred Heart College (Autonomous), Thevara, Kochi, Kerala, India. She has expertise in the field of condensed matter physics, nanomagnetism, multiferroics and polymeric nanocomposites, etc. She has research experience at various reputed national institutes, including Bose Institute, Kolkata, India; SAHA Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata, India; and UGC-DAE CSR Centre, Kolkata, India; and she has collaborated with various international laboratories. She is a recipient of a young researcher award in physics and best paper awards (2020, 2021). She served as Assistant Professor and Examiner at the Department of Basic Sciences, Amal Jyothi College of Engineering, under APJ Abdul Kalam Technological University, Kerala, India. Dr. Abraham is a frequent speaker at national and international conferences. She has a good number of publications to her credit in many peer-reviewed high-impact international journals.

Associate Professor, Department of Pharmaceutics at Sandip Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences. She has 22 years of experience in research along with teaching. She has published more than 35 research papers in various reputed international and national journals as well as more than 30 review papers. She has also presented research work at several conferences and has received several awards. She has authored the book titled Natural Excipients, community pharmacy and management and editor of Biological active natural products, microbial technologies and phyto-Pharmaceuticals in drug development, applied pharmaceutical science and microbiology, Novel green chemistry methods, and natural products, and has many chapters and books that are in progress. She has supervised many MPharm students and is currently associated with many research projects and guiding PhD students. She also worked as a college examination officer (CEO) for more than three years and is a member of the university examination committee. Dr. Talele has delivered interactive talks at continuous education programs for registered pharmacists and is a life member of the Association of Pharmacy Teachers of India (APTI) and a member of the Indian Pharmaceutical Congress Association (IPCA).