The International Conference on Water, Energy, and Environment for Sustainability (IC-WEES) 2022 is a flagship conference of National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Pakistan. With the growing global concerns about environmental degradation, depletion of freshwater resources, and climate change-induced disasters, this year the IC-WEES is focused on climate change, water, environment, and disaster risk reduction (DRR) and their interrelationship with each other.
Given the continuous evolution of contemporary scientific research work, it is progressively encouraging that there must be strong collaboration between experts, researchers, and research sharing platforms. Believing in this, the IC-WEES 2022 aims to bring expert individuals and diverse research groups to exchange and share R&D updates and discuss sustainable solutions to challenges in climate change, DRR, environment and water resources management, and respective nexuses between these fields.
The conference proceedings consists of multi-disciplinary topics on the themes. As with every passing day, the climate change impacts are becoming visible, there is a dire need to understand the complex inter-relationships of climate changes, environment, water, and energy nexuses in order to lead to more sustainable solutions for our future generations. Our region is presently suffering from unprecedented heat waves, and prospective readers will be quite curious to know about the latest researches being carried out in this region with regard to environment, climate change, and water in order to reduce the disaster risks the continent is likely to face in near future.
Opening.-Structure and Methodology.-Climate Change.-Disaster Risk Reduction.- Climate, Environment and Water Nexus.- Nature-Based Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction.- Making Cities Resilient (MCR 2030) Campaign UNDRR.
Naeem earned his BE in civil engineering and PhD in environmental engineering from the National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Pakistan where his research focus was on the environmental applications of nanotechnology. He studied Disaster Management and Climate Change as a postdoctoral researcher at Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand. He then joined NUST at the start of 2012. Naeem was heading the departments of Water Resources Engineering and Disaster Management till his departure from NUST in late 2022. Presently he is working on consultancy projects related to Water Resources and Climate Change as an independent consultant with different National and International organizations.
