Main theme: Living with nature, coping with environmental changes in lowlands
Sub-themes:
I. Geotechnical and geoenvironmental engineering
- Properties of soils
- Ground improvement and geosynthetics
- Geoenvironmental issues in lowland area
- Foundations and retaining structures
- Soil dynamics and engineering behavior of soft soil
- Site characterization, slope stability, dams, rock engineering
- Earthquake engineering
- Environmental geotechnics
- Coastal and geotechnical engineering
- Foundation for high-rise buildings
- Underground projects in soft soil
- Soil improvement & reinforcement for Infrastructure projects
- Monitoring & instrumentation for Tunnels and excavations
- Geotechnical modeling & numerical analysis
II. Water and environmental management
- Water resources and watershed management
- Wastewater treatment and water purification
- Water pollution in river, lake and coastal area
- Disaster risk management
- Drought Management and Response
- Lowland development and reclamation
- Marine ecology and coastal environments
- Groundwater and land subsidence
- Groundwater monitoring and restoration
- Hydraulic structures for water management
III. Coastal and riverine management
- Coastal, harbor and offshore engineering
- Ecological, hydrological, geochemical and biological processes
- Protection, prevention or mitigation of coastal environments
- Beach erosion and coastal sediment transport
- Coastal and estuarine hydrodynamics
- Beach development and coastal protection
- Marine and offshore renewable energy
- Climate change and coastal adaptation
- Coastal hazards and risk assessment
IV. City planning and management
- Sustainable infrastructures on lowland
- Coastal and water front planning
- Environmental assessment for urban development
- Urban design and development planning
- Creative restructuring and preservation of urban environment
- Transportation planning for sustainable development
- Solid waste management for urban areas