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Authorised 4th International Conference onWATER RESOURCES
(ICWR-2018)“Water as Resources & for Livelihood”
27th-28th November 2018Bayview Hotel, Langkawi
Nurul Ain / Nurafidah8
ICWR-2018 Secretariat
For registration, please visit
:-http://seminar.utmspace.edu.my/icwr2018
CPD points from BEM & DOE will be awarded
Selected papers will be published in Scopus and WoS indexed
Journal - Journal of Water and Climate Change, IWA Publishing
REGISTRATION FEE
(The conference fee includes conference materials, lunch,
refreshment and certificate of attendance)
CALL FOR PAPERS
ORGANISED BY: WITH COLLABORATION OF
FACULTY OF CIVIL ENGINEERING KEDAH STATEGOVERNMENT
DEPARTMENT OF IRRIGATIONAND DRAINAGE (DID),
MALAYSIA
HUMID TROPICS CENTRE,KUALA LUMPUR
MINISTRY OF NATURALRESOURCES AND
ENVIRONMENT (NRE)
NATIONAL HYDRAULICRESEARCH INSTITUTE OF
MALAYSIA (NAHRIM)
LANGKAWI DEVELOPMENTAUTHORITY (LADA)
THE MALAYSIAN NATIONAL COMMISSIONFOR UNESCO (MNCU)
CHANG’AN UNIVERSITY UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA
Tel : +607-5218159Fax : +607-5205725
All Papers will be published for conference proceedings as
IHP-VIII TECHNICAL DOCUMENTS IN HYDROLOGY by UNESCO
FAKULTI KEJURUTERAAN AWAM DAN ALAM SEKITAR
MALAYSIA-JAPAN INTERNATIONALINSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY(MJIIT)
UNIVERSITI SAINS MALAYSIA
Presenter / Participant (Local and ASEAN Countries)
Student / *Second paper (Local)
Presenter / Participant (International)
*Second paper (International)
RM 1,280.00
RM 990.00
RM 1,998.00
RM 1,280.00
*both papers must be presented by the same presenter
New AbstractSubmission Deadline
30th MAY 2018
CANCELLATION POLICY
Cancellations received in writing 30 days prior to
the conference are eligible for a refund, subject to
a 15% cancellation fee. Cancellations received less
than 14 days from the date of the conference are
not eligible for refunds. Substitute attendees of
the same category are however welcome
Please note that the speakers and topics are
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circumstances beyond the control of the
organisers may necessitate substitutions or
cancellations of speakers and/or topics. As such
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cancel the advertised speakers and/or topics.
thWater is not only an essential component of life supporting
systems, but also an important element for food security, economic
development and global sustainability. Ever increasing water demand
and gradual reduction of water resources have changed the water
supply-demand balance and threatened not only economic
developments, but also livelihood. The 2030 Sustainable Development
Agenda centers around health since it is both a major contributor
and beneficiary of sustainable development policies. As health,
economic, social and environmental progress are inter-related,
water is indispensable and plays an important role to provide
sustainable developments in all fields.
The 4th International Conference on Water Resources (ICWR-2018)
aims to bring together the academics, scientists, leading
engineers, researchers, water managers, government officials and
practitioners from wide range of disciplines working on water
resources and sustainability science to collaborate, communicate,
and share their experiences and research results, to reiterate the
importance of managing water resources and to re-establish virtue
and harmonising the natural order of life through knowledge.
The conference will be a platform to understand the existing
water resources management strategies adopted in Malaysia compared
to those in other countries across the world. The conference
invites physical scientists, biologists, computer scientists,
mathematicians, economists, ecologists, tourism managers, and
social and political scientists working in the fields related to
water resources and sustainability to share knowledge on “Water as
Resources and for Livelihood”.
INTRODUCTION
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
WATERSHED MANAGEMENT - Multi-objective planning and management -
Riverine sediment transport and morphology - Riverine hydrodynamics
- River-reservoir and ecosystem management - Climate change impact
- International water laws and treaties - Integrated river basin
management - Forest hydrology and peat soil management -
Information management system - System analysis in water
resources
FLOOD MANAGEMENT - Socio-economic & environmental impacts -
Flood plain management and flood risk mapping - Flood mitigation
and innovative control measures - Dam and reservoirs as flood
control structures - Rainfall modelling and flood forecasting
system - Climate change and adaptive measures - Management capacity
for sustainable infrastructure - Urban stormwater
WATER SUPPLY AND ECONOMICS - Water security and economic
development - Reservoir management and water supply - Groundwater
management and modelling - Groundwater irrigation and rainwater
harvesting - Water supply and sanitation - Water management and
irrigation system - Water distribution system and modelling tools -
Sustainability and competitiveness investment - Conservation and
water use efficiency - Water for food and irrigated agricultural
land - Economics analysis of water and modelling tools - Stochastic
programming and bargaining theory - Hydropower generation
COASTAL MANAGEMENT - Coastal and ocean climate variation -
Coastal processes and environment - Marine aquatic biodiversity -
Integrated coastal zone management - Coastal sediment transport and
morphology - Coastal structure and protection - Port, harbour and
waterways - Estuarine hydrodynamics and transport
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE - Prevention and mitigation measures of
water pollution - Aquatic biodiversity maintenance - Contamination
of lakes, rivers and wetland ecosystems - Climate variability and
modelling - Environmental hydraulics and hydrology - Water
pollution and ecosystem degradation - Water quality and water age -
Environmental Impact Assessment
NATURAL DISASTER - Tsunami and regional disaster - Coastal
flooding and defence - Sea level rise and adaptation strategy -
Cost of damages and disruption - Global warming and drought
management strategy - Disaster risk management
MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTING - Probability distribution/models
& time series methods - Computational fluid dynamics - Big data
analytics - Internet of Things - Numerical Methods - Discretization
Method - Differential Equations - Machine Learning: Neural
Networks, Deep Learning - Evolutionary computing and artificial
intelligence - Data mining and intelligent information
retrieval
OTHER RELATED DISCIPLINES - Water and sustainable tourism
industry - Water and agritourism/ ecotourism - Water in islamic art
and culture - Water and renewable energy - Water and green
buildings - Water in architecture and urban planning -
Photogrammetry and GIS in water engineering - Water laws, policy
and economic models - Water related education
THEMES
IMPORTANT DATES
ORGANISING COMMITTEE
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PATRONYBhg. Dato’ Ir. Dr. Hj. Md. Nasir bin Md. NohDirector
General,Department of Irrigation & Drainage (DID)
Prof. Datuk Ir. Dr. Wahid bin OmarVice-Chancellor, Universiti
Teknologi Malaysia (UTM)
CHAIRMANProf. Dr. Zulkifli bin YusopDean of Resource
Sustainability,Research Alliance, UTM
Prof. Dr. Sobri bin HarunFaculty of Civil Engineering, UTM
Datin Ir. Rohani binti Ahmad Director, Humid Tropic Centre,
DID
Extended Deadline for Abstract Submission 30 May
2018Notification of Abstract Acceptance 15 June 2018Deadline for
Full Paper Submission 15 July 2018Notification of Full Paper
Acceptance 15 August 2018Conference ICWR 2018 27 - 28 November
2018
PROFESSOR NGUYEN is holder of the Endowed Brace Professor Chair
in Civil Engineering at McGill University. He is currently Chair of
Department of Civil Engineering and Applied Mechanics and Director
of the Brace Centre for Water Resources Management. He has also
served as Acting Director and Associate Director of the Global
Environmental and Climate Change Centre at McGill (2004-2010). He
has been invited to participate in various expert committees at the
provincial level, at the national level (NRC Canada Associate
Committee on Hydrology, Natural Resources Canada, Canada Mortgage
and Housing Corporation), and at the international level (UNESCO,
WMO, Japan, Vietnam). He has served as member of different
scientific journal editorial boards (ASCE Journal of Hydrologic
Engineering, IAHR Journal of Hydro-environment Research, IAHR
Journal of Hydro informatics, etc.), and has been invited to
deliver keynote and prestigious lectures at many universities,
scientific conferences, and workshops and has been invited
professor at universities in Australia, Canada, Japan, Malaysia,
Singapore, and Thailand. Furthermore, since several years he has
been active in international co-operation activities with
colleagues in North-America, Europe, and in Asia-Pacific region as
well as an active member in several professional associations
(President of the Hydrological Science Section of the AOGS,
2006-2008; Founding member of APHW, Members of AGU, ASCE, AWRA,
CSCE, IAHR, IAHS, and IWA). Finally, as a professional engineer, he
has been involved in a number of projects with various consulting
engineering companies in Canada (Hydro-Quebec, Dessau-Soprin Inc.,
etc.) and in other countries (South Korea, Singapore, Vietnam,
etc.). He is author or co-author of over 200 papers in
peer-reviewed journals, monographs, books, and conference
proceedings.
PROFESSOR EIICHI NAKAKITA is Kyoto University’s Vice Director of
Disaster Prevention Research Institute (DPRI) since 2014. He is
also a professor in Atmospheric and Hydrospheric Disasters Division
since 2004. He obtained his PhD from Kyoto University, Japan in
1990. His research interests includes hydrometeorology and radar
hydrology, rainfall and flood predictions, utilization of weather
radars into disaster mitigation, and climate change and has over
150 publications in peer-reviewed journals. He is leading big
collaborative research projects with other universities and
institutes such as “Integrated Research on State-of-the-art
Multi-sensors In-situ Observation of Storm Genesis, and Reduction
of Serious Disaster due to Heavy Rainfall” and Team D of
“Integrated Research Program for Advancing Climate Models”,
supported by the Ministry of Education Culture, Sports, Science and
Technology (MEXT). He is a member of the River Council of Japan,
Committee on Utilizing Weather Radar into River Management in the
Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transportation, and committees
on Climate Change and Adaptation in the Ministry of Land,
Infrastructure and Tourism (MOIT), the Ministry of the Environment
(MOE), and MEXT. He is also a member of Leadership Team, Climate
Change Working Group, Technical Divisions of Innovation and
Professional Development (IPD), IAHR. As for his accomplishment, he
has been awarded with few awards including Prize for Encouragement
from Japan Society of Civil Engineers (1993), Science Award from
Japan Society of Hydrology and Water Resources (2012) and Gambo
Awards from Meteorological Society of Japan (2016).
DATO’ IR. DR. HJ. MD. NASIR B. MD. NOH currently holds the
position of Director General in the Department of Irrigation and
Drainage, Malaysia (DID) Federal Headquarters, Kuala Lumpur. He has
28 years of working experience in various fields of civil
engineering works. He has involved in project management, planning,
design, implementation of inter-state river basin and flood
mitigation mega projects; construction supervision, operation,
maintenance and rehabilitation of river, coastal and drainage
infrastructures; stormwater control operations; flood warning,
forecasting and monitoring system. He is a registered Professional
Engineer (P.Eng) with the Board of Engineers, Malaysia (BEM); also
a corporate member of the Institution of Engineers, Malaysia
(MIEM). He was a Council Member of IEM for the sessions 2017/2018.
Dato’ Ir. Dr. Hj. Md Nasir b. Md Noh, is also a Certified
Professional in Erosion and Sediment Control (CPESC) with
EnviroCert International, USA (since 2007). He sits in the
Executive Committee for the Malaysian Stormwater Organisation
(MSO), a Non-Governmental Organisation set up in 2008 to promote,
train and certify Erosion and Sediment Control professionals under
an agreement with EnviroCert International, USA.