The book presents the select proceedings of the International Conference on Recent Advances in Sustainable Environment (RAiSE 2022). It discusses recent challenges and advances in various areas of sustainable environment. The topics covered include environmental dynamics, atmospheric physics, physical oceanography, global environmental change & ecosystems management, climate & climatic changes, global warming, ozone layer depletion, carbon capture & storage, integrated ecosystems management, satellite applications in the environment, environmental restoration & ecological engineering, habitat reconstruction, biodiversity conservation, deforestation, landscape degradation & restoration, ground water remediation, soil decontamination, environmental sustainability, renewable sources of energy, clean technologies, toxicity assessment & epidemiological studies, indoor air pollution, etc. This book will be useful for the researches, academicians, scientists, and professionals working in the various areas of environment sustainability, especially sustainable civil engineering.

Deals with the recent advances on sustainable issues in engineering, environment, and innovative technologies Focuses on significant advances regarding sustainable development and innovation to face the natural challenges Presents recent findings of experts in the field from both academia and industry

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**Prof. Krishna R. Reddy **is University Scholar, Distinguished Researcher, and Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, the Director of Sustainable Engineering Research Laboratory (SERL), and also the Director of the Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering Laboratory (GAGEL) in the Department of Civil, Materials, and Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). Dr. Reddy received Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, USA. He received gold medals for being first in his class of B.S. (Civil Engineering) at Osmania University, India, and M.S. (Civil Engineering) at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee. Prof. Reddy has over 28 years of research, teaching, and consulting experience within the broad fields of civil, geotechnical, materials, environmental, and sustainable/resilient engineering, addressing the nexus among sustainability, resiliency, infrastructure, water, energy, and the environment. His research expertise includes environmental remediation of soils, sediments, groundwater, and stormwater; solid and hazardous waste management, waste containment, and landfill engineering; characterization and engineering applications of waste/recycled materials; life cycle assessment and sustainable & resilient engineering; and geotechnical engineering. His research includes laboratory studies, field experiments, and computer modeling, ultimately leading to fundamental advances and practical solutions to the real-world problems.

**Dr. Srinivas Tangellapalli **is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Dr B.R Ambedkar National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar, Punjab, India. He previously worked as a Professor at the CO2 Research and Green Technologies Centre of the School of Mechanical Engineering at Vellore Institute of Technology, India. He received his Ph.D. from JNT University College of Engineering, Telangana in 2008 and was a Postdoctoral fellow at University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT), Canada in 2010 and 2013. He has completed various research projects funded by CSIR, SERB, SERB (IMPRINT) and DST. He has one copyright to his credit and registered 5 patents. He has authored 4 full books, 12 book chapters, 125 journal publications, and 85 conference proceedings. His current areas of research are solar thermal energy and poly-generation. He has given 60 invited lectures and has supervised 5 Ph.D. students, 35 M.Tech. thesis and 40 undergraduate projects.

Dr. Susheel Kalia is an Associate Professor & Head in the Department of Chemistry at Army Cadet College Wing of Indian Military Academy, Dehradun, India. He was a postdoctoral researcher in 2013 and a Visiting Professor at the University of Bologna, Italy, in 2020. Dr. Kalia has around 88 research articles in international journals along with 20 books, 11 book chapters and more than 7900 citations with 39 h-index in his academic career. He has guided several M.Phil. and Ph.D. students and delivered many invited talks at national and international conferences. His research interests include polymeric bio- and nanocomposites, surface modification, conducting polymers, nanofibers, nanoparticles, nanoferrites, hybrid materials and hydrogels. In addition, he is a member of a number of professional organizations, including the Asian Polymer Association, Indian Cryogenics Council, the Society for Polymer Science, Indian Society of Analytical Scientists, and the International Association of Advanced Materials. Dr. Divya Prakash obtained her Ph.D. in Industrial Environmental Engineering in 2007 from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee, India. Since August 2019, she has been associated with Shobhit University, Saharanpur as a Professor & Dean School of Biological Engineering and Sciences. Earlier she worked with Amity University Rajasthan as an Associate Professor & Head Department of Chemistry. She has supervised 1 Ph.D., 4 in the submission process, 19 M.Sc. dissertations, and several undergraduate projects. She has over 41 research publications in international journals, chapters in edited books, and conferences of repute (SCI & SCOPUS). She has filed 5 patents. She has developed one application for the awareness of farmers. Her areas of interest are waste management, soil chemistry, water chemistry and environmental chemistry.

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Landscape Degradation: The August 2019 Puthumala Landslide in Kerala, India.- Understanding the role of biological oxygen demand in aquaculture waters in the western delta region of Andhra Pradesh.- Interpreting different timeslot precipitation characteristics in the Seonath River basin, Chhattisgarh during 1901-2017.- To study the effect of confining walls on flexible circular particle using Immersed boundary method.- Time series modelling and forecasting of mean annual rainfall over MRP Complex Region Chhattisgarh associated with climate variability.