This book provides a comprehensive exploration of how smart and emerging technologies can help societies mitigate and adapt to the accelerating impacts of climate change. It brings together cutting-edge research, practical innovations, and real-world applications to demonstrate how digital intelligence—spanning AI, IoT, geospatial systems, digital twins, robotics, and smart infrastructure—can strengthen climate resilience across key sectors. As climate risks intensify worldwide, traditional approaches are no longer sufficient; this book highlights how data-driven tools are enabling faster predictions, more efficient resource management, and adaptive responses that protect communities and ecosystems. The volume examines two interconnected pillars: mitigation, which focuses on reducing greenhouse gas emissions through smart energy systems, low-carbon mobility, climate-aware urban design, and intelligent agriculture; and adaptation, which leverages predictive analytics, environmental sensor networks, satellite-based monitoring, automated water systems, and resilience-oriented planning to prepare for floods, droughts, heatwaves, and other climate hazards. By integrating case studies, conceptual frameworks, and technological insights, the book shows how digital platforms can deliver early warning systems, optimize renewable energy, modernize food production, and support climate-smart governance. A central theme is the need to bridge technological innovation with social inclusion. The book addresses challenges such as the digital divide, affordability, ethical use of data, and the governance of AI in climate systems. It emphasizes the importance of accessible, scalable, and culturally appropriate solutions—particularly for vulnerable and resource-constrained regions that face the greatest climate risks. Through interdisciplinary contributions, the work underscores how smart technologies can transform environmental management while supporting sustainable development goals. This book is designed for researchers, policymakers, practitioners, technologists, educators, and graduate students seeking to understand how digital innovations can drive effective, equitable, and future-ready climate action.
About the Author :
Dr. A. Jose Anand is a Professor at the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, KCG College of Technology, Chennai, India. He has one year of industrial experience and over twenty five years of teaching experience. He has presented several papers in prominent conferences, and has published several papers in reputed journal, and also published books in professional & engineering subjects. He is a member of Institution of Engineers, Computer Society of India, Institution of Engineering and Technology, Indian Society for Technical Education, etc. His current research interests include Wireless Sensor Networks, Embedded systems, IoT, Machine Learning and Image Processing, etc. Dr. Saravanan Krishnan is an Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science & Engineering in College of Engineering, Guindy, Anna University, Chennai, India. He is also Deputy Director for Centre for University-Industry Collaboration (CUIC), Anna University, Chennai. He has a Masters in Software Engineering and PhD in Computer Science and Engineering. His research interests include Cloud Computing, Blockchain, Software Engineering, IoT, Smart cities. He has published papers in a number of conferences and reputed journals.
Professor Walter Leal is a distinguished "Euro-Professor", holding professorial posts at Universities in Germany (Chair of Climate Change Management at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences), United Kingdom (Manchester Manchester Metropolitan University), Sweden (University of Uppsala) and Poland (Merito University). He has two main research interests. The first is in the field of sustainable development, where he holds a world record of publications. The second is climate change, to which he has been providing a key contribution to the literature, also including aspects of climate change and health. His field experience in over 70 countries, involves missions undertaken on behalf of various international organisations (e.g. European Union, World Bank, OECD, UNESCO, UNEP) and attendance to specialised events in North America, Latin America/Caribbean, Europe, Africa, Asia and Pacific Region, and the Middle East. Among the many awards he has received, it can be mentioned the 1999 "Leading Editor of the Year Award" and the 2000 "Editor of the Year Award", by MCB University Press, the "Eco-Citizen Award" (2001) in Rio de Janeiro and the Aurelio Giuseppe Prize awarded by the Italian Council of Ministers for his environmental work. Moreover, he was awarded the "Golden Page Award" (April 2003) in London for his editorial work and the North Sea Star Award (2006) by the EU-Interreg Secretariat for his project work in the North Sea Region.
Dr. Zhongyu Lu, is a Professor at the Leeds Beckett University, Leeds, United Kingdom. Her extensive research covers information access, retrieval and visualization, XML technology, object oriented technologies, agent technology, data management systems, security issues and Internet computing. She has been an invited speaker for industrial-oriented events and published 5 academic books and more than 160 papers. Professor Lu has acted as the founder and a program chair for the International XML Technology workshop and XMLTech (USA) for 11 years (2003-2011). She also serves as Chair of 5 separate international conferences, is a regular reviewer for several international journals, and a committee member for 16 international conferences. She specializes in XML technology and mobile computing with image retrieval through the latest wireless devices. Professor Lu serves as a member of the British Computer Society (BCS), BCS examiner of Advanced Database Management Systems, and fellow of the Higher Education Academy (UK). She is a founder and Editor-in-Chief for the International Journal of Information Retrieval Research.
