THEMES

Flood Management

• Socio-economic and environmental impacts of flood
• Floodplain management and flood risk mapping
• Flood mitigation and innovative control measures
• Dam and reservoirs as flood control structures
• Rainfall modelling and flood forecasting system 
• Coping with climate change and adaptive measures
• Management capacity for sustainable infrastructure
• Urban stormwater and rainwater harvesting
  

Water Supply and Water Economics

• Water security and economic development
• Reservoir management and water supply
• Groundwater management and modelling
• Groundwater for drinking and irrigation
• 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
• Water and hydropower generation

Watershed Management

• Multiobjective planning and management
• River engineering and sediment transport
• River-reservoir and ecosystem management
• Coping with 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

Water Related Natural Disaster

• Tsunami modelling and regional disaster
• Coastal flooding and defence
• Erosion and land stability
• Sea level rise and adaptation strategy
• Reports on the costs of damages and disruption
• Global warming and drought management strategy
• Disaster risk management
• Landslide risk assessment
• Disaster information data base
• Risk management system of flood/landslide disaster
• Remote sensing and geographical information system

Environment and Coastal Zone Management

• Prevention and mitigation measures of water pollution
• Coastal and ocean climate variation
• Aquatic biodiversity maintenance
• Contamination of  lakes, rivers and wetland ecosystems
• Coastal and marine management
• Port structure and navigation channel
• Climate variability and modelling
• Integrated coastal zone management 
• Environmental hydraulics and hydrology
• Water pollution and ecosystem degradation

Adaptive Soft Computing Applications

• Adaptive Fuzzy system, Adaptive Neural Networks
• Neuro-Fuzzy, Neuro-Rough System
• Evolutionary Computing and Artificial Immune System
• Data Mining and Intelligent Information Retrieval
• Forecasting and Optimization using AI

Mathematics and Its Applications

• Probability Distribution and Time Series Methods
• Computational Fluid Dynamics
• PDEs, Korteweg-de Vries, Laplace, Poisson
• Navier Stokes, Langrange, Newton, Fourier, Boussinesq
• Taylor, Euler, Runge-Kutta, Spectral, Saint-Venant
• Finite Difference, Finite Element, Hyperbolic
• Gaussian, Bayesian, Copulas, Hidden Markov
• Linear and Non Linear Equations

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 and Economic Models