Every two years our community gathers together at the IAHR World Congress, and in August 2017 around 1200 participants from 61 countries met at the Putra World Trade Center in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.  911 full papers were accepted out of 1324 abstracts submitted. The congress covered seven main themes comprising: River and Sediment Management, Flood Management, Environmental Hydraulics and Industrial Flows, Coastal, Estuaries and Lakes Management, Urban Water Management, Water Resources Management, Hydroinformatics/Computational Methods. Our Congress opened on Monday 14th August by The Honourable Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia. There were a total of 12 keynotes during the week involving leading specialists in the hydro environment domain from around the world. The Congress closed on the Friday after the Malaysian Deputy Minister for Science, Technology and Innovation gave a highly personal talk about his education, and the differ ences between public perception of water and the environment and that of scientists.

Contents

• Cover   

• Front Matter   

• Preface   
  

• Table of Contents    

• Keynote

• Theme 1: River and Sediment Management

• 1a River Conservation and Restoration   

• 1b River Sediment Management and Morphodynamics   

• 1c Debris Flow and Reservoir Sedimentation   

• 1d Flow Interaction With Hydraulic Structure   

• 1e Dam Decommissioning

• Theme 2: Flood Management

• 2a Flood Risk Assessment  

• 2b Urban Flood Management  

• 2c Flood Mitigation and Control   

• 2d Flood Disaster and Adaptation Measures   

• 2e Flood Recovery and Resiliency   

• Theme 3: Environmental Hydraulics and Industrial Flows

• 3a Ecohydraulics   

• 3b Sustainable Use of Terrestrial Ecosystem and Rehabilitation of Water Systems   

• 3c Sustainable (Renewable) Energy   

• 3d Industrial Flow Management   

• 3e Hydraulics Machinery  

• Theme 4: Coastal, Estuaries and Lakes Management

• 4a Coastal and Estuary Morphodynamics  

• 4b Estuaries and Shore Protection   

• 4c Dynamics and Exchanges in Estuary-Coastal Zone  

• 4d Inland and Coastal Lake Management   

• 4e Coastal Structures (Ports and Harbours)  

• Theme 5: Urban Water Management

• 5a Rainfall-Runoff Processes and Modelling  

• 5b Assessment of Stormwater and Cso Quality and Its Impacts   

• 5c Sewer Sediment   

• 5d Stormwater Management   

• 5e Combined Sewer Overflow (Cso) Control  

• Theme 6: Water Resources Management

• 6a Water Resources Management Under Increasing Uncertainty  

• 6b Alternative Water Resources  

• 6c Conflict Resolution in Water Management  

• 6d Advanced Water Resources Systems Analyses   

• 6e Groundwater Hydraulics   

• Theme 7: Hydroinformatics/Computational Methods and Experimental

• 7a High Performance Computing and 5th Generation of Modelling Systems   

• 7b Impacts of Pollutants on the Environment  

• 7c Development and Application of Soft Computing Tools in Hydroinformatics   

• 7d Instrumentation and Experimental Methods  

• 7e Big Data and Data Acquisition Technologies  

• Special Session

• SS 1 Transients in Pipes   

• SS 2 Sustainable Water Resources Planning & Management Under Climate Change  

• SS 3 Green Infra as Disaster Risk Reduction Measures in the Asian-Pacific Region 

• SS 4 the Path to Resiliency in Low Gradient Coastal Regions for Present and Future Conditions  

• SS 5 Function of Governance to River Restoration Under the Climate Change   

• SS 6 Coastal Reservoir - a Technology That Can Develop Freshwater From the Sea Without Desalination   

• Index 

Review Process

The papers included in this volume were part of the 37th IAHR World Congress cited on the cover and title page. Papers were selected and subjected to review by the Editor and the International Scientific Committee and followed a revision process with the following steps: First, several of the committees involved in the organization of the congress established a set of technical criteria for the Committee in charge of the revision. Submitted papers were sent to one or two experts in the field. Authors were then asked to include the necessary amendments and follow the reviewers' comments, and their work was reviewed until the final version was approved by the Editor. 

Ethical guidelines and Code of Conduct

In addition to the technical criteria, IAHR publications follow the Ethical Guidelines and Code of Conduct provided by the Committee of Publication Ethics (COPE). A Publication Ethics and a Publication Malpractice statement are publicly available throughout the entire review process.

The 37th IAHR World Congress proceedings are long-term preserved following the IAHR Policy of digital preservation archives.