Soumita BanerjeeMs. Soumita Banerjee is a Senior Research Fellow (UGC) at the Department of Geography, Faculty Council of Science, Jadavpur University, Kolkata. She has completed her M.Sc. in Geography (Specialization in Environmental Study) with a Gold Medal from te Department of Geography, University of Calcutta and later, while working as full-time faculty in the Department of geography (UG-PG), Asutosh College, Kolkata, she has done a M.A in Disaster Management in the distance learning mode of Annamalai University. During her Research Period as a Junior Research Fellow, she has been awarded with DAAD- IGCS Summer School Scholarships twice and invited as a Guest Researcher in ERASMUS Exchange Programme. She has also selected and participated in various prestigious national level training programmes or schools. Her areas of research interest cover Land Use Dynamics and Urban Planning, Hazards & Disasters, and Environmental Issues. So far, she has contributed as an author and a reviewer in a numbers of research journals and books in home and abroad. Read More Read Less