Events for 07-2016

Speaker Prof. Thian Yew GAN Professor Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of Alberta Canada Abstract In recent years, severe storms have been occurring more frequently and in greater intensity across the world, resulting in serious damage, huge property losses and deaths, such as the Monsoon flood of Pakistan in 2010 that resulted in about 2000 deaths, the Tropical storm Washi of Philippines in 2011 with more than 1,200 deaths, the North India flood in 2013 that caused about 5,700 deaths. Apparently extreme events estimated to be of 100-year return period or higher had been occurring much more frequently. On the other hand, semi-arid and arid regions across the world (of which some are also the heartland of agriculture) ...