Project Leader: Prof Koh Hock Lye
Lakes, rivers, estuaries and wetlands provide essential services to ecosystems, wildlife and human. They are constantly threatened by regime shift and by other environmental and climate shocks (Koh and Lujan, 2018). These coastal resources are vulnerable to climate change impact such as increased salt intrusion and sea level rise, to anthropogenic activities and to catastrophic coastal disturbances including tsunamis (Koh et al., 2018; Teh et al., 2018), hurricanes and typhoons. Warming climate has increased the frequency, duration and intensity of these coastal disturbances, implicating profound threats to coastal resources and populations. Numerical simulations coupled with onsite monitoring can improve the state of art knowledge of coastal vulnerability and resilience to climate change and anthropogenic disturbances (Teh and Koh, 2018); and can provide valuable insights to climate change adaptation strategy for sustainability (Woo et al., 2018; Walter et al., 2019). A dedicated book will address actions and programs critically needed to achieving United Nations Sustainable Development Goals UN-SDGs (Koh and Teh, 2019).
Publications:
- Koh, H.L. and Teh, S.Y. (2019a). Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience Through Partnership and Collaboration. In the Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals: Partnership for the Goals. Edited by Walter Leal Filho, Anabela Marisa Azul, Luciana Brandli, and Tony Wall. Springer. Invited article. Under Review.
- Koh, H.L. and Teh, S.Y. (2019b). Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation: Role of Mangroves in Southeast Asia. In the Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals: Climate Action. Edited by Walter Leal Filho, Pinar Gökçin Özuyar, Anabela Marisa Azul, Luciana Brandli, Ulisses Azeiteiro and Tony Wall. Springer. Invited article. In press.
- Koh, H.L. and Teh, S.Y. (2019c). Ecological Modelling for Mitigating Environmental and Climate Shocks: Achieving the Aspirations of UN-SDG. Book by World Scientific Publishing. Forthcoming.
- Koh, H.L. and Teh, S.Y. (2019d). Skills, Spirituality and Strategy: Three Core Competences in Education for SustainAbility. Submitted to the 2nd International Conference on Sustainable Development Goals. 30-31 July 2019, USM
- Koh, H.L., Teh, S.Y., Chai, M.F. and Tan, W.K. (2018). Tsunami Resilient Community: Towards Achieving SDG 1 for Reducing Poverty. Invited speech at SCSTW-10, The National University of Singapore, 10-11 October 2018. To submit to journal “Natural Hazards”.
- Koh, H.L. and Lujan, M. (2018). South East Asian Disaster Community Resilience (SEAD-CORE). A research grant proposal submitted to UKRI GCRF Global Challenge: Resilience to Environmental Shocks and Change.
- Teh, S.Y., Koh, H.L., Lim, Y.H. and Tan, W.K. (2018). High Resolution Digital Elevation and Bathymetry Model for Tsunami Run-up Simulation for Penang Beaches. Invited speech at SCSTW-10, The National University of Singapore, 10-11 October 2018. Submitted to Journal of Earthquake and Tsunami. Under review.
