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Shirish Ravan
Dr. Shirish Ravan Adjunct Faculty

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Presently, Dr. Shirish Ravan holds the helm at the EarthSight Foundation, which champions the cause of crafting a sustainable future through interventions at the grassroots level. Dr. Shirish Ravan’s work spans various critical domains, encompassing disaster management, biodiversity, food security, sustainable development, planetary defense, and using space and geospatial technologies to advance these crucial areas. He worked for 18 years in senior roles within the United Nations, where he served in key positions at both the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs and the United Nations Office for Drugs and Crime in Vienna (Austria), Beijing (China) and Kabul (Afghanistan

  • Bachelor’s degree in Agricultural Science
  • Master’s degree in Environmental Science.
  • PhD in Applications of satellite remote sensing in forest ecology and biomass estimation.
  • Dr. Shirish coordinated UN-SPIDER and contributed to the UN Committee for Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, providing policy advocacy and technical advisory services across 70 countries. He also served at ISRO, C-DAC, Maharashtra Remote Sensing Applications Centre, and Wildlife Institute of India, and is currently a Visiting Professor at institutions including IISER, Bharati Vidyapeeth, Symbiosis University, and the University of Central Lancashire.
  • Throughout his tenure, Dr. Shirish demonstrated dedication to leveraging space-based technologies to attain Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and fortify disaster and climate resilience.
  • Mangroves' role in supporting ecosystem-based techniques to reduce disaster risk and adapt to climate change: A review Sunkur, R., Kantamaneni, K., Bokhoree, C., Ravan, S. Journal of Sea Research, 2023, 196, 102449; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.seares.2023.102449
  • Integrating indigenous knowledge and state-of-the-art Earth observation solutions for the Sendai framework implementation Pimprikar, M., Cunningham, M., Ravan, S., Lambert, S. Disaster Prevention and Management: An International Journal, 2023, 32(1), pp. 186–205 https://doi.org/10.1108/DPM-07-2022-0151
  • A Systematic Review Investigating the Use of Earth Observation for the Assistance of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene in Disaster Response and Recovery Shah, A., Kantamaneni, K., Ravan, S., Campos, L.C. Sustainability (Switzerland), 2023, 15(4), 3290, https://doi.org/10.3390/su15043290
  • Anthropogenic Land Use and Land Cover Changes—A Review on Its Environmental Consequences and Climate Change Roy, P.S., Ramachandran, R.M., Paul, O., ... Sarangi, C., Kanawade, V.P. Journal of the Indian Society of Remote Sensing, 2022, 50(8), pp. 1615–1640 https://link-springer-com-443.webvpn.synu.edu.cn/article/10.1007/s12524-022-01569-w
  • When It Strikes, Are We Ready? Lessons Identified at the 7th Planetary Defense Conference in Preparing for a Near-Earth Object Impact Scenario Ravan, S., De Groeve, T., et al. International Journal of Disaster Risk Science, 2022, 13(1), pp. 151–159, 10.1007/s13753-021-00389-9.
  • Fourteen Actions and Six Proposals for Science and Technology-Based Disaster Risk Reduction in Asia: Second Asian Science and Technology Conference for Disaster Risk Reduction: Science-Policy Dialogue for Implementation of the Sendai Framework, April 2018 Shi, P., Shaw, R., Ardalan, A., Ravan S, et al. International Journal of Disaster Risk Science, 2018, 9(2), pp. 275–279; doi 10.1007/s13753-018-0174-9
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