• Best Oral Paper Award
• Fulbright Fellowship
• Best Oral Pressentation at the National symposium on “Innovations in Geospatial Technology for Sustainable Development with special emphasis on NER
• BEST POSTER AWARD at IIRS ISG

Book Chapter/Section
• Modelling climate mobility responses to policy decisions in vulnerable coastal areas: a case study from Thiruvananthapuram, India by Jennath A., Paul S. Handbook on Climate Mobility 242-267 (2026)
• Modelling climate mobility responses to policy decisions in vulnerable coastal areas: A case study from Thiruvananthapuram, India by Jennath A., Paul S. K. Handbook on Climate Mobility 242-267 (2026)
• Nature-Based Solutions for Mitigating Zoonotic Disease Spillover Risk in Urban Areas by K. A., Paul S. K. Urban Sustainability Navigating Environmental Transition Challenges in Global South 209-229 (2025)
• Exploring the linkages between urban heat islands and urban pollution islands in tropical countries: A comprehensive review by Sinha S., Banerjee A., Patnaik A., Paul S.K. Developments in Environmental Science 15 529-554 (2024)
• Framework for Location-Allocation of Shelters for Evacuation During Cyclones by Kumar A., Paul S. K., Roy S. A System Engineering Approach to Disaster Resilience 121-142 (2022)
• Strategic Planning for Greenfield Cities: A Holistic Evaluation of Efficiency and Smartness by Bhavsar S., Paul S. K. Urban Science and Engineering 117-132 (2021)
Journal
• The Synergic Effect of Walkability and Metro Ridership on Housing Prices of Transit-Designed Neighborhoods in Delhi by Agnihotri V., Paul S.K., Roy S. International Review for Spatial Planning and Sustainable Development 13 20-45 (2025)
• Housing market shifts favouring transit-oriented development in emerging economies: the link between metro rails and housing price dynamics in Delhi by Agnihotri V., Paul S.K. International Journal of Housing Markets and Analysis 17 8-31 (2024)
• Trajectories of Environmental Migrants: Understanding Migration Destinations of the Coastal Population in Kerala, India by Jennath A., Paul S. Human Ecology - (2024)
• Understanding mobility and immobility choices in vulnerable coastal settlements: insights from southwest India by Jennath A., Paul S. Climate Policy - (2024)
• Understanding Parents Preferences While School Selection in Indian Cities Using Cluster Analysis and Logit Model by Roy S., Paul S.K., Kumar A., Agnihotri V. International Journal of Educational Reform 33 344-364 (2024)
• A multi-risk approach for projecting climate change-associated coastal flood, applied to India by Jennath A., Paul S. Natural Hazards 120 4581-4600 (2024)
• Spatial Assessment of Flood Susceptibility in Assam, India: A Comparative Study of Frequency Ratio and Shannonâ s Entropy Models by Chetia L., Paul S.K. Journal of the Indian Society of Remote Sensing 52 343-358 (2024)
• Water Balance Analysis Using Palmer Drought Severeity Index for Drought-Prone Region of Marathwada, India by Dhawale R., Paul S. K., George J. S. International Journal of River Basin Management - (2022)
• Spatial and temporal trends of urban green spaces: an assessment using hyper-temporal NDVI datasets by Dutta D., Rahman A., Paul S.K., Kundu A. Geocarto International - (2021)
• Multilayer network structure and city size: A cross-sectional analysis of global cities to detect the correlation between street and terrain by George J.S., Paul S.K., Dhawale R. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science - (2021)
• Contrasting urban greenness across cities with varying trends in above-normal weather events by George J. S., Paul S. K., Dhawale R. Nature-Based Solutions 1 - (2021)
• Analysis of the Economic Value and Status of the Ecosystem Services Provided by the Ashtamudi Wetland Region, a Ramsar Site in Kerala by Joy N.M., Paul S.K. Journal of the Indian Society of Remote Sensing 49 897-912 (2021)
• Impervious surface growth and its inter-relationship with vegetation cover and land surface temperature in peri-urban areas of Delhi by Dutta D., Rahman A., Paul S.K., Kundu A. Urban Climate 37 - (2021)
• A cellular-automata model for assessing the sensitivity of the street network to natural terrain by George J.S., Paul S.K., Dhawale R. Annals of GIS 27 261-272 (2021)
• Climate projections of sea level rise and associated coastal inundation in atoll islands: Case of Lakshadweep Islands in the Arabian Sea by Jennath A., Krishnan A., Paul S.K., Bhaskaran P.K. Regional Studies in Marine Science 44 - (2021)
• Anthropogenic forcing exacerbating the urban heat islands in India by Raj S., Paul S.K., Chakraborty A., Kuttippurath J. Journal of Environmental Management 257 - (2020)
• Estimating urban growth in peri-urban areas and its interrelationships with built-up density using earth observation datasets by Dutta D., Rahman A., Paul S.K., Kundu A. Annals of Regional Science 65 67-82 (2020)
• Examining effects of climate change and land use dynamic on biophysical and economic values of ecosystem services of a natural reserve region by Sannigrahi S., Zhang Q., Joshi P.K., Sutton P.C., Keesstra S., Roy P.S., Pilla F., Basu B., Wang Y., Jha S., Paul S.K., Sen S. Journal of Cleaner Production 257 - (2020)
• Ecosystem service valuation of a natural reserve region for sustainable management of natural resources by Sannigrahi S., Chakraborti S., Banerjee A., Rahmat S., Bhatt S., Jha S., Singh L.K., Paul S.K., Sen S. Environmental and Sustainability Indicators 5 - (2020)
• Responses of ecosystem services to natural and anthropogenic forcings: A spatial regression based assessment in the world's largest mangrove ecosystem by Sannigrahi S., Zhang Q., Pilla F., Joshi P.K., Basu B., Keesstra S., Roy P.S., Wang Y., Sutton P.C., Chakraborti S., Paul S.K., Sen S. Science of the Total Environment 715 - (2020)
• Ecosystem service value assessment of a natural reserve region for strengthening protection and conservation by Sannigrahi S., Chakraborti S., Joshi P.K., Keesstra S., Sen S., Paul S.K., Kreuter U., Sutton P.C., Jha S., Dang K.B. Journal of Environmental Management 244 208-227 (2019)
• Evaluating landscape capacity to provide spatially explicit valued ecosystem services for sustainable coastal resource management by Sannigrahi S., Joshi P.K., Keesstra S., Paul S.K., Sen S., Roy P.S., Chakraborti S., Bhatt S. Ocean and Coastal Management 182 - (2019)
• Changing pattern of urban landscape and its effect on land surface temperature in and around Delhi by Dutta D., Rahman A., Paul S.K., Kundu A. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 191 - (2019)
• Estimating global ecosystem service values and its response to land surface dynamics during 1995 2015 by Sannigrahi S., Bhatt S. , Rahamat S. , Paul S. K., Sen S. Journal of environmental management 223 115-131 (2018)
• A spatially explicit method for identification of vulnerable hotspots of Odisha, India from potential cyclones by Mazumdar J., Paul S.K. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction 27 391-405 (2018)
• Estimating global ecosystem service values and its response to land surface dynamics during 1995â 2015 by Sannigrahi S., Bhatt S., Rahmat S., Paul S.K., Sen S. Journal of Environmental Management 223 115-131 (2018)
• A Deviation from standard quality approach for characterization of surface water quality by Sen S., Paul S. K., Mukherjee A. International Journal of Sustainable Development and Planning 12 30-41 (2017)
Conferences
• Analyzing the long-term effects of grey infrastructure and the role of green infrastructure as coastal defenses against extreme weather events in a climate change scenario by S. R., Paul S. K. 8th International Conference on Civil Engineering and Architecture - (2025)
• inking local climate zones (LCZs) and surface urban heat islands (SUHI) in Bhubaneswar: Insights for climate-responsive urban planning by Dhar A., Paul S. K., Senapati A. IEEE International Conference on Next-Generation Technologies of Artificial Intelligence and Geoscience Remote Sensing - (2025)
• Linking Local Climate Zones (LCZs) and Surface Urban Heat Islands (SUHI) in Bhubaneswar: Insights for climate-responsive urban planning by Dhar A., Paul S.K., Senapati A.K. 2025 IEEE International Conference on Next-Gen Technologies of Artificial Intelligence and Geoscience Remote Sensing, EarthSense 2025 - (2025)
• Cloud-based geospatial analysis of shoreline dynamics in West Bengal: A statistical approach to erosion and accretion trends by Mosby S. S., Paul S. K. IEEE International Conference on Next-Generation Technologies of Artificial Intelligence and Geoscience Remote Sensing (EarthSense 2025) - (2025)
• Cloud-Based Geospatial Analysis of Shoreline Dynamics in West Bengal: A Statistical Approach to Erosion and Accretion Trends by Mosby S.S., Paul S.K. 2025 IEEE International Conference on Next-Gen Technologies of Artificial Intelligence and Geoscience Remote Sensing, EarthSense 2025 - (2025)
• Navigating urbanisation and biodiversity conservation in coastal cities : a methodological approach to address landscape fragmentation through urban greening in Puri, India by Dhar A., Paul S. K. Urban Transitions (CITI) 2024 - (2024)
• Shoreline dynamics using cloud platform and remote sensing: A case of Maharashtra coast, India by Mosby S., Paul S. Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering 13266 - (2024)
• Spatial assessment of flood susceptibility for three geographic locations in Assam, India: Application of MaxEnt model, a machine learning approach by Chetia L., Paul S. K. 5th Urban Economy Forum + 59th ISOCARP World Planning Congress - (2023)
• The Intersection of Livelihood and Climate Mobility: Insights from Fishing Communities of Kerala by Jennath A., Paul S. K. Third Annual Conference on Migration: Migration in a changing climate - (2023)
• Framework for Location-Allocation of Shelters for Evacuation During Cyclones by Kumar A., Paul S.K., Roy S. Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering 205 121-142 (2022)
• Migration as a Response to Climate Disasters in Coastal Areas: Insights from Kerala, India by Jennath A., Paul S. Oceans Conference Record (IEEE) - (2022)
• Migration as a Response to Climate Disasters in Coastal Areas: Insights from Kerala, India by Jennath A., Paul S. K. Oceans 2022 - (2022)
• Strategic Planning for Greenfield Cities: A Holistic Evaluation of Efficiency and Smartness by Bhavsar S., Paul S. Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering 121 LNCE 117-132 (2021)
• A Framework for prioritizing evacuation in cyclonic event by Kumar A., Paul S. K. 4th World Congress on Disaster Management 264- (2019)
• Analysis of spatial and temporal variations of surface urban heat island in Kolkata, India using LANDSAT and MODIS data by Raj S., Paul S. K., Chakraborty A. , Kuttippurath J. EGU General Assembly 2019 - (2019)
• Analyzing the water balance for drought prone regions of Marathwada by Dhawale R., Paul S. K., George J. 4th World Congress on Disaster Management 264- (2019)
• Morphology of city assemblage: A methodological framework for analyzing co-evolution of urban street network and higher order activity centers by George J. S., Paul S. K., Dhawale R. XXVI International Seminar on Urban Form - (2019)
• Natural terrain and urban form: Interpreting locational patterns of arterial roads and activity centres by George J.S., Paul S.K., Dhawale R., Patnaik A. Proceedings of the Annual International Conference on Architecture and Civil Engineering 472-476 (2019)
• Self-organizing small-world graphs case of urban arterial road networks by George J.S., Paul S.K. Proceedings of the Annual International Conference on Architecture and Civil Engineering 466-471 (2019)
• A framework to identify risk level of areas for the formation of evacuation zones during cyclones by Kumar A., Paul S. K. Cool Planning: Cities and Climate Change - (2018)
• An assessment of the impact of human-induced changes on ecosystem services in the Sundarban Biosphere Reserve region by Sannigrahi S., Paul S. K., Sen S. European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2018 - (2018)
• Application of Low-Rank Sparse Decomposition Method to Study Surface Urban Heat Island of Kolkata by Paul S. K., K S. R., B B. R., Roy R. International Society of City and Regional Planners (ISOCARP) - (2018)
• Planning for balance between economic benefits and land use potential: Case of Alapuzha by George J., Paul S. K. 6th International Conference on Hospitality and Tourism Management (ICOHT 2018) - (2018)
• Developing a conceptual framework for geo-spatial planning of location-allocation of schools in Indian cities by Roy S., Paul S. K., Agnihotri V. Cool Planning: Cities and Climate Change - (2018)
• Forecasting the Future: Priority Indexing of Development along Metro Stations in Lucknow, India by Agnihotri V., Paul S. K., Roy S. Reconstructing Past and Future Urban and Regional Strengths, EURA 2018 - (2018)
• A comparative analysis of drought indices on vegetation through remote sensing for Latur region of India by Dhawale R., Paul S.K. International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences - ISPRS Archives 42 403-407 (2018)
• A comparative analysis of drought indices on vegetation through remote sensing for Latur region of India by Dhawale R., Paul S. K. International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences 403-407 (2018)
• Estimation of Mangrove Net Primary Production and Carbon Sequestration Service using Light Use Efficiency Models in the Sunderban Biosphere Region, India by Sannigrahi S., Sen S. , Paul S. K. EGU General Assembly 2017 - (2017)
• An approach to link water resource management with landscape art to enhance its aesthetic appeal, ecological utility and social benefits by Mukherjee A., Sen S. , Paul S. K. EGU General Assembly 2017 - (2017)
Seminars
• Achieving CO2 emission targets by predicting fuel mix in the Indian economy based upon household consumption by Das A., Paul S. K. International Seminar and Exhibition Exploration of Oil, Gas, Coal, Minerals and Ground Water (EXOCMING) 2018: Modern Techniques and Appliances - (2018)
Symposium
• Estimating terrestrial ecosystem productivity using remote sensing light use efficiency model in the Sunderban Biosphere region, India by Sannigrahi S., Sen S. , Paul S. K. Recent Advances in Remote Sensing and GIS with Special Emphasis on Mountain Ecosystems - (2016)
• Comparison of terrestrial ecosystem productivity of five ecosystem models and its relationship with climatic variables in Sunderban Biosphere Reserve Area, India by Sannigrahi S., Sen S. , Paul S. K. Recent Advances in Remote Sensing and GIS with special emphasis on Mountain Ecosystems - (2016)

Principal Investigator

• Assessing the current & future creative economic regeneration scope of traditional river -based heritage & eco-tourism networks in KMA, Bengal
• Planning recommendations for urban neighbourhoods to regulate thermal fluxes in a hot - humid climatic region: case study of Kolkata
• 3D Printing for Building Construction (ICG_2017)
• Comprehensive Development Plan (CDP) of Talcher Coalfields, Mahanadi Coalfields Limited (MCL), CI, GoI
• Spatial Epidemiological Modelling of Dengue in Endemic and Non-Endemic Foci using Geospatial Technologies
• Comprehensive Consultancy and Detailed Engineering Services for Construction of DVC R and R Services at TUBED Village, Latehar District Jharkhand

Co-Principal Investigator

• Artificial intelligence for societal needs: knowledge discovery and intelligent decision making for solving problems in Indian context related to energy, climate, water, disaster management and traffic
• Assessment of relationship between urban development and water use, annual rainfall Vs. runoff and land cover parameters in residential cluster of small and medium towns in humid West Bengal
• Assessment of socio-economic vulnerability based on relationship between urban development & parameters of physical-environmental, socio-economic and socio-cultural liability cum affordability thresholds in residential cluster of West Bengal
• Consultancy services for carrying out the work related to Planning and designing of the R&R Colony for Odisha Ultra Mega Power Project
• Future of cities
• Preparation of Revised LUDCP of SSDA Planning Area
• SANDHI, Science -Technology & Culture - Heritage Interface by IIT Kharagpur
• Survey and Demarcation of Defence Land in Barrackpore Cantonment
• To establish a scientific correlation between 2-D ecologic footprints & 3-D built formulation in a) Indian Architecture & b) Its relationship with the World