“Integrated Water Safety Management and Projection of Extreme Events in International Rivers in China”project endorsed in the First Set IDSSD Projects

17 07, 2025

Recently, the “Integrated Water Safety Management and Projection of Extreme Events in International Rivers in China” project led by the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IGSNRR, CAS) has been selected as the United Nations’ International Decade of Sciences for Sustainable Development (2024-2033) (IDSSD) Project. With the support of the ANSO Joint Research Project, IGSNRR, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Tribhuvan University, Hanoi University of Natural Resources and Environment, Research Center for Ecology and Environment of Central Asia (Dushanbe) RCEECA, and Chinese Academy of Sciences - National Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan are working on the project and facilitate its widespread application globally.

Introduction of the “Integrated Water Safety Management and Projection of Extreme Events in International Rivers in China” Project

Research Team of the “Integrated Water Safety Management and Projection of Extreme Events in International Rivers in China” Project

“Integrated Water Safety Management and Projection of Extreme Events in International Rivers in China” Project, led by Prof. Tang Qiuhong of IGSNRR, focuses on the key issues of water security management and projection of extreme events scenarios in transboundary river basins, adapting to climate change and the impacts of socio-economic development activities in transboundary rivers, and aims to develop and enhance the innovation and development of remote sensing monitoring and early warning technologies to support scientific and efficient applications for disaster prevention and control. The program aims to bring together multi-source data, coupled with large scale distributed hydrological-hydrodynamic modelling technologies, build a high-resolution risk monitoring system, to predict the extreme events under climate change, to promote adaptation to climate change, and to enhance the cooperation strategy of water security in different regions and meet the requirement for economic and social development under climate change. The endorsement of this project is of milestone significance, marking that the international project team, supported by ANSO, has taken another key and solid step in deepening the collaboration in science and technology innovation and promoting sustainable development, and promoting the high-quality development of international scientific and technological cooperation with innovative practices.