RISE IN BRIEF
Research Institute for Sustainable Environment (RISE) was established on 15th February 2015.
This institute was formed from a merger between 5 outstanding Centers of Excellence in UTM namely Center for Environmental Sustainability & Water Security (IPASA), Geosciences and Digital Earth Center (INSTeG), Process Systems Engineering Centre (PROSPECT), Center for Innovative Planning and Development (CIPD) and Center for Coastal and Ocean Engineering (COEI).
The institute provides R&D, consultancy, lab services, monitoring and testing, as well as advices for policy makers, industries, town planners and domestic users in the area of sustainable environmental management, planning and engineering.
Niche Area
Resilience Planning and Sustainable Engineering for the Environment
Research Area
- Environmental Sustainability
- Water Pollution Control
- Water Management
- Smart Industry / Factory
- Smart Industrial Park Planning
- Planning & Design Smart Grid
- Smart Green Port
- Capacity Building
- Sustainable policy and physical planning of future cities
- Adaptive planning for climate resilient cities
- Building urban resilience through urban design
- Smart mobility as a means of creating sustainable cities
Research Area
- Sustainable tourism to enhance community resilience
- Rural transformation and sustainable rural communities
- Policies and practices for a low carbon society
- GIS and modern technology in sustainable land use planning
- Coastal engineering & modelling
- Estuary and ocean ecosystem
- Marine hazard and mitigations
- Remote sensing applications
- Remote Sensing & Geospatial Solutions
- Water & Carbon Footprint