The coastal zone is the intersection of land and sea, with the characteristics of daily sea level fluctuations due to ocean tides, as well as complex hydro-meteorological conditions of oceanic and continental climate interactions. Coastal zone is also the tail end of rivers and drainages, where confluent land water is discharged into the sea. On the sea side of the coastal zone, there are abundant marine fisheries and very strong and powerful of wind energy, tidal energy, and wave energy, which might be available for development in marine resources, while on the land side, there are vast agricultural and food production areas, increasingly urban and industrial areas, nature and recreational areas. These areas are also potential for developing solar energy, water energy, wind energy and biomass energy. Besides, the estuary areas often consist of various ecosystems, supporting biodiversity. Based on multiple considerations of food production, agricultural irrigation water, drainage and flood protection, proper planning and development of clean green energy not only meets the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) but also contributes to net zero carbon emissions by 2050 (2050 Net- Zero Emissions), the national commitment by many countries.
However, these coastal environments and resources have diverse and complex disaster risk issues, such as heavy rainfall and floods in lowlands, over-pumping of groundwater leads to land subsidence and easy flooding, coastal erosion and land loss, seawalls and coastal facility damage, sea level rise under climate change, earthquake and tsunami invasion and destruction of land areas, etc. Therefore, it is necessary to clearly understand these potential disasters with more sophisticated knowledge and technology to upgrade the coastal environment master plan, introduce appropriate clean green energy, so as to ensure responsible newly construction projects operation and maintenance, as well as improvement of the existing ageing capacity of irrigation, drainage and flood protection facilities.
CONCEPT NOTE
The Working Group on Sustainable Coastal Environment Regeneration (WG-SCER) has been established in 2024 by integrating the erstwhile workbodies - Working Group on Sustainable Development of Tidal Areas (WG-SDTA), Working Group on Adaptive Flood Management (WG-AFM), Working Group on Irrigation Development and Management (WG-IDM), and Working Group on Modernization and Revitalization of Irrigation Schemes (WG-M&R)
Established : 2024
Sl. No. | Name | Country | Position | |
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1 | Dr. Ruey Chy Kao | si************* | Chinese Taipei Committee | Chair |
2 | Dato’ Ir. Hj. Nor Hisham Bin Mohd Ghazali | hi************* | Malaysia | Vice Chair |
3 | Mr. Paavan Kumar Reddy Gollapalli | pa************* | India | Secretary |
4 | Dr. Abdelilah Taky | ta************* | Morocco | Member |
5 | Mr. Ahmad Bin Dakur | ah************* | Malaysia | Member |
6 | Dr. Ahmet Seren | as************* | Turkey | Member |
7 | Dr. Akie MUKAI | mu************* | Japan | Member |
8 | Eng. Ali Mohamed Ahmed Elhaj | al************* | Sudan | Member |
9 | Dr. Ali Omran Ali | al************* | Iraq | Member |
10 | Mr. Ali Volkan Seyfi | vo************* | Turkey | Member |
11 | Mr. Alok Paul Kalsi | ws************* | India | Member |
12 | Dr. Amgad Elmahdi | am************* | Australia | Member |
13 | Ms. Bedriye Nur Dikenli Aytekin | be************* | Turkey | Member |
14 | Dr. Bilal Alpaslan | ba************* | Turkey | Member |
15 | Dr. Brian T. Wahlin | bw************* | USA | Member |
16 | Prof. Budi Santoso Wignyosukarto | bu************* | Indonesia | Member |
17 | Prof. (Ms.) Chen Jing | ch************* | China | Member |
18 | Dr. Chih Hung Tan | ch************* | Chinese Taipei Committee | Member |
19 | Dr. Chung Feng Ding | cf************* | Chinese Taipei Committee | Member |
20 | Dr. Dina Salesh | di************* | Egypt | Member |
21 | Mr. Dinesh Bhatt | di************* | Nepal | Member |
22 | Dr. Dong Bin | do************* | China | Member |
23 | Mr. Duan Cheng | me************* | China | Member |
24 | Eng. El Sayed El Yamani Ali Sarkees | y1************* | Egypt | Member |
25 | Dr. (Ms.) Eman Ragab Mohamed Nofal - Young Professional | em************* | Egypt | Member |
26 | Dr. Gamal Mohamed Elkassar | ge************* | Egypt | Member |
27 | Dr. Hi Lu | hi************* | China | Member |
28 | Eng. (Ms.) Hind Massoud Hamed Elneel | hi************* | Sudan | Member |
29 | Dr. Hiroki Minakawa | hi************* | Japan | Member |
30 | Ir. Hj. Mohd Azmi bin Ismail | az************* | Malaysia | Member |
31 | Dr. (Ms.) Hsiao Weng Wang - Young Professional | wh************* | Chinese Taipei Committee | Member |
32 | Dr. Hwa-Lung Yu | hl************* | Chinese Taipei Committee | Member |
33 | Mr. Jan Potgieter | ja************* | South Africa | Member |
34 | Dr. JANG Jeong Ryeol | wg************* | South Korea | Member |
35 | Prof. Jiesheng Huang | sd************* | China | Member |
36 | Dr. Kamran Emami | kk************* | Iran | Member |
37 | Dr. Katsuyuki SHIMIZU | sh************* | Japan | Member |
38 | Dr. Khumbulani Dhavu | dh************* | South Africa | Member |
39 | Prof. Kwang Sik Yoon | ks************* | South Korea | Member |
40 | Prof. L.B. Roy - Direct Member | lb************* | India | Member |
41 | Dr. Li Yalong | ly************* | China | Member |
42 | Ir. LIU Zhitong | 53************* | China | Member |
43 | Dr. (Ms.) Liu Jing - Young Professional | ji************* | China | Member |
44 | Dr. Macdex Mutema | mu************* | South Africa | Member |
45 | Dr. Maheswor Shrestha | ma************* | Nepal | Member |
46 | Mr. Marcel Marchand | Ma************* | Netherlands | Member |
47 | Ir. Mat Hussin Bin Ghani | ma************* | Malaysia | Member |
48 | Mr. Maurice Roos | mr************* | USA | Member |
49 | Er. Mehmet Akif Kaygusuz | me************* | Turkey | Member |
50 | Mr. Mehrzad Ehsani | ir************* | Iran | Member |
51 | Dr. Ming-Che Hu | mc************* | Chinese Taipei Committee | Member |
52 | Mr. Mohamad Ramdani | mr************* | Indonesia | Member |
53 | Mr. Mohamad Radzi Bin Abdul Talib | ra************* | Malaysia | Member |
54 | Mr. Mohd Yazid bin Abdullah | ir************* | Malaysia | Member |
55 | Dr. Mohsen Barahimi | mb************* | Iran | Member |
56 | Dr. Mona Liza Delos Reyes | mf************* | Philippines | Member |
57 | Engr. Muhammad Sani Bala | ms************* | Nigeria | Member |
58 | Mr. Muhammad Adrie Azhari | ad************* | Indonesia | Member |
59 | Engr. Muhammad Ejaz Tanveer | en************* | Pakistan | Member |
60 | Er. Muhammet Bahattin Avcuoglu | Ba************* | Turkey | Member |
61 | Dr. Narges Zohrabi | na************* | Iran | Member |
62 | Dr. (Ms.) Neelam Patel | ne************* | India | Member |
63 | Mr. Olli Matti Verta | ol************* | Finland | Member |
64 | M. Omid Moridnejaad - Young Professional | o.************* | Iran | Member |
65 | Ms. Özlem YILDIZ | oz************* | Turkey | Member |
66 | Mr. R.K. Agrawal | rk************* | India | Member |
67 | Engr. Reyne B. Ugay | r_************* | Philippines | Member |
68 | Ms. Sahar Norouzi | sa************* | Iran | Member |
69 | Dr. Sanjay Madhukar Belsare | be************* | India | Member |
70 | Dr. Sheng-Wei Wang | wa************* | Chinese Taipei Committee | Member |
71 | Dr. Shi Yuan - Young Professional | 86************* | China | Member |
72 | Dr. Shinji FUKUDA | sh************* | Japan | Member |
73 | Prof. Sunil D. Gorantiwar | sd************* | India | Member |
74 | Engr. Syed Mahmood-ul-Hassan | mu************* | Pakistan | Member |
75 | Prof. Dr. Tarek Ahmed El-Samman | ta************* | Egypt | Member |
76 | Mr. Tariq Altaf | ta************* | Pakistan | Member |
77 | Dr. Toshihiko KUNO | to************* | Japan | Member |
78 | Er. Tóth Tamás | to************* | Hungary | Member |
79 | Dr. Usman Khalid Awan | u.************* | Pakistan | Member |
80 | Mr. Usman-e- Ghani | un************* | Pakistan | Member |
81 | Dr. Vijay Labhsetwar | vi************* | India | Member |
82 | Prof. Waleed Hassan M. Abou Elhassan | Wa************* | Egypt | Member |
83 | Dr. Wu Jingwei | ji************* | China | Member |
84 | Dr. Wu Di | wu************* | China | Member |
85 | Mrs. Zaineb Mohammed Akram | zo************* | Iraq | Member |
86 | Prof. Zhang Zhanyu | zh************* | China | Member |
87 | Dr. Zhong-Kai Feng | zh************* | China | Member |
88 | Ir. Zhu Haidong | zh************* | China | Member |
89 | Mr. Arthon Suttigarn | as************* | Thailand | Observer |
90 | Dr. Ir. Henk Ritzema | he************* | Netherlands | Observer |
91 | Dr. Alok Sikka | a.************* | India | Provisional Member |
92 | Dr. A. Hafied A. Gany | ha************* | Indonesia | Permanent Observer |
93 | Mr. Alan Kendall Clark | ac************* | United Kingdom | Permanent Observer |
94 | Dr. Daeou Eo | da************* | South Korea | Permanent Observer |
95 | Mr. Harry Denecke | me************* | Indonesia | Permanent Observer |
96 | Mr. Ian William Makin | ia************* | United Kingdom | Permanent Observer |
97 | Dr. Jo Jin Hoon | jo************* | South Korea | Permanent Observer |
98 | Dr. Petra Schmitter (World Bank) | ps************* | Myanmar | Permanent Observer |
The Working Group on Sustainable Coastal Environment Regeneration (WG-SCER) has been established in 2024 by integrating the erstwhile workbodies - Working Group on Sustainable Development of Tidal Areas (WG-SDTA), Working Group on Adaptive Flood Management (WG-AFM), Working Group on Irrigation Development and Management (WG-IDM), and Working Group on Modernization and Revitalization of Irrigation Schemes (WG-M&R)