Book Description
Knowledge Compendium on Integrated Science of Nutrition, Indoor Air Quality and Climate Vulnerability is an interdisciplinary scholarly volume that examines how nutrition, environmental exposures, indoor air quality, and climate-related stressors collectively shape child health and development. Recognising that children are biologically and socially more vulnerable to environmental and nutritional risks, the compendium brings together evidence spanning early childhood through adolescence to understand impacts on physical growth, cognitive development, immune function, educational outcomes, and long-term disease burden.
Despite increasing global attention to climate change, air pollution, and malnutrition, research and policy responses often remain siloed. This compendium aims to bridge these gaps by integrating perspectives from public health, environmental science, nutrition, climate studies, urban planning, and policy research. It synthesises scientific evidence, introduces assessment frameworks and indicators, highlights spatial and systems-based tools, and documents scalable interventions led by communities, NGOs, and institutions. The volume is intended for researchers, policymakers, practitioners, and development professionals working in climate-vulnerable and resource-constrained settings.
🎯 Aim & Scope
The primary aim of this knowledge compendium is to advance an integrated understanding of how nutrition, indoor and ambient environmental exposures, and climate vulnerability interact to influence child health outcomes. The book seeks to consolidate interdisciplinary research, methodological tools, and policy-relevant insights that can support evidence-based decision-making and programme design.
The scope of the volume extends from conceptual frameworks and risk assessment methods to applied case studies and community-based interventions. It emphasises cumulative and multi-exposure pathways, climate-sensitive food systems, indoor air pollution, housing conditions, and spatial vulnerability mapping, with a strong focus on translating science into actionable policy and practice.
Focus Areas
- Nutrition–environment–climate linkages across childhood
- Systems and conceptual frameworks for integrated risk analysis
- Burden of disease attributable to nutritional and environmental risks
- Maternal nutrition, infant feeding, and environmental stressors
- Climate-sensitive food systems and child nutrition security
- Community-based nutrition interventions: evidence and gaps
- Indoor air pollution, housing, cooking fuels, and ventilation
- Ambient air pollution, sanitation, heat stress, and nutrition outcomes
- Cumulative and multi-exposure risk assessment approaches
- Climate extremes, food availability, and childhood malnutrition
- Climate change and disease burden in vulnerable child populations
- GIS, remote sensing, and spatial vulnerability mapping
- Indicators and indices for child health and climate vulnerability
- Translating science into policy and programme design
- NGO-led innovations and scalable community models
👨🏫 Editorial Board
Editors
Editor 1:
Dr. Rakesh Kumar, Ph.D., Former Director, CSIR–DSIR, CSIR–National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (CSIR-NEERI), Nagpur, India.
Email: rakeshkumarneeri@gmail.com
Editor 2:
Dr. Sri Harsha Kota, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi), New Delhi, India.
Email: harshakota@iitd.ac.in
Editor 3:
Dr. Ankit Gupta, Ph.D., Scientist E, CSIR–National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (CSIR-NEERI), Nagpur, India.
Email: ankit.gupta@csir.res.in
Editor 4:
Dr. Hemant Bherwani, Ph.D., Scientist E, CSIR–National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (CSIR-NEERI), Nagpur, India.
Email: hemant.bherwani@csir.res.in
Editor 5:
Dr. Sunil Gulia, Ph.D., Scientist D, CSIR–National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (CSIR-NEERI), Nagpur, India.
Email: sunil.2019@csir.res.in
📌 Book Information
| Item | Details |
|---|---|
| Book Title | Knowledge Compendium on Integrated Science of Nutrition, Indoor Air Quality and Climate Vulnerability |
| ISBN | 978-93-92585-37-1 |
| Year | 2026 |
| Publisher | EduPub |
| Book Link | https://books.edupub.org/2026/02/knowledge-compedium-nutrition-indoor-air-quality-climate-vulnerability.html |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.26643/edupub/book/2026/1 |
