Open AccessPreface of 6th International Conference on Water Resource and Environment (WRE 2020)
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
iop conference series. earth and environmental science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1755-1307
pISSN - 1755-1315
DOI - 10.1088/1755-1315/612/1/011001
Subject(s) - beijing , sustainability , china , pandemic , resource (disambiguation) , covid-19 , political science , geography , business , environmental planning , environmental protection , engineering , archaeology , ecology , medicine , disease , pathology , infectious disease (medical specialty) , biology , computer network , computer science
The outbreak of Covid-19 Pandemic has changed a lot in people’s living style, many cities are shutting down restaurants, shopping malls, gyms, and schools to try to stop the spread of this Pandemic virus, and people are needed to stay at home to avoid virus infection. However, water bodies, natural and built environment, and related sociological systems, have experienced significant impact from the economic slowdown and the reduction of pollutant loading from industries, vehicle emission, and other sources. WRE conference debuted in 2015, when the first WRE was held in Beijing. The WRE conference highlighted the needs to maintain the sustainability of indispensable water resources under increasing uncertainty and to protect the fragile water environments under the growing concern of intensive use of water we are facing today. As an annually held conference, this conference has been successfully held in Shanghai, Qingdao, Kaohsiung, and Macau in the past years. List of WRE2020 Scientific Committee Members are available in this pdf.