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Climate change and unplanned urbanisation will result in a decrease in groundwater resources and intensified flood risk in Bangkok. A study from the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) conducted by Sanjiv Neupane and Usha Ghimire share the research findings during an online regional workshop entitled “Mapping Groundwater Resilience to Climate Change and Human Development in Asian Cities”. According to the study, rising temperatures of 2.5C to 3.8C in the worst-emission scenario will affect rainfall and groundwater, driving a growing population to peril by the end of the 21st century.   Prof Dieter Trau, dean of the AIT School of Engineering and Technology,

Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Thailand together with Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES), Japan; Department of Groundwater Resources (DGR), Thailand; Division of Water Resources Planning and Investigation for the South of Vietnam (DWRPIS), Vietnam; International Waterlogging and Salinity Research Institute, Pakistan (IWASRI) and Center of Research for Environment Energy and Water (CREEW), Nepal successfully organized the second regional workshop on “Mapping Groundwater Resilience to Climate Change and Human Development in Asian Cities” on Wednesday, 29 September 2021. The virtual workshop was the continuation of the first regional workshop conducted in August 2019 at AIT, Thailand. The project is funded

Congratulations Ms. Usha Ghimire for your publication entitled ‘Climate and land-use change impacts on spatiotemporal variations in groundwater recharge: A case study of the Bangkok Area, Thailand’ in Science of the Total Environment (Publisher: Elsevier; ISI IF: 6.551, Q1).   This study was conducted under the project “Mapping groundwater resilience to climate change and human development in Asian cities” (CRRP 2018-01MY-Shrestha) funded by the Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research (APN) which intends to examine the impact of climate change and land-use change on groundwater recharge in Bangkok and its vicinity.   Groundwater contributes to the socioeconomic development of the Thai capital

Mr. Sanjiv Neupane participated and presented a poster “Evaluation of CORDEX Regional Climate Models (RCMs) for future climate extreme projection in Bangkok and its Vicinity, Thailand” in the 9th International Joint Student Seminar on “Civil Infrastructures” jointly organized by Regional Network Office for Urban Safety (RNUS), School of Engineering and Technology (SET), Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Thailand and International Center for Urban Safety Engineering (ICUS), Institute of Industrial Science (IIS), University of Tokyo (UTokyo), Japan. The seminar was held during 8 – 10 December 2020, at Video-Teleconference Room, AIT Library and online through zoom with an objective of sharing

Ms. Usha Ghimire presented a paper ”Mapping Groundwater Resilience to Climate Change and Human Development in Bangkok and its vicinity, Thailand” in the 2nd AIT-BNU Joint International Virtual Workshop on Water, Health, and Ecosystems: Current Challenges and Opportunities jointly organized by Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Thailand and Beijing Normal University (BNU), China on 17 December, 2020. The paper highlights the comprehensive analysis of groundwater resiliency of Bangkok city and its vicinity in context of changing climate, urbanization and anticipated pumping scenarios. The paper is one of the outputs from the project “Mapping Groundwater Resilience to Climate Change and Human

16-18 October 2019 – An ‘International Symposium on Climate Change Impacts, Vulnerability and Adaptation: Asian Perspective’ organized by the Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research (APN) and the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) from 16 ‒ 18 October 2019 was successfully concluded at the AIT Campus, Thailand. Sixteen (16) project leaders/members of APN supported projects from 11 countries shared their project outputs and developed high quality scientific research papers for a special issue in a high impact factor journal, Environmental Research (Elsevier).   Dr Sangam Shrestha, Associate Professor and Program Chair of the Water Engineering and Management program of AIT opened the symposium

All the participants of the workshop posing for group photo in War Room of Department of Groundwater Resource, Thailand A three-day workshop on “Mapping groundwater resilience to climate change and human development in Asian cities” was successfully completed on 7 August 2019 at the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Thailand. The workshop was one of the activities of the project implemented by the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) and sponsored by the Asia Pacific Network for Global Change Research (APN). The collaborators are Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES), Japan, Department of Groundwater Resources (DGR), Thailand, Division of Water Resources