Dr. Vishwa Raj Sharma (PhD) is an Assistant Professor (Senior Scale) at the Department of Geography, Shaheed Bhagat Singh College, University of Delhi, with more than 15 years of teaching and research experience. His field of specialization is urban environmental issues, tourism and disaster management. He has published a number of research papers in national and international journals. His recent book ‘Making Cities Resilient’ is published from Springer, Netherlands in 2019. He has also participated and presented research papers in many conferences in India and abroad, such as International Geographical Union (IGU) conferences held at Kyoto, Japan (2013), Krakow, Poland (2014), IGU Moscow, Russia (2015) and IGU Congress in Beijing, China (2016). Recently, United Nations Sixth Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction has invited him to participate in Geneva, Switzerland to be held from 13-17 th May, 2019.

Environmental Issues, Urban and Regional Studies, Disaster Management