Silk-road Disaster Risk Reduction

Principal Investigator

Prof. CUI Peng.

Academician (Member) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Co-Director General of China-Pakistan Joint Research Center on Earth Sciences, Professor of Institute of Geographical Sciences and Resources and Institute of Mountain Hazards and Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Prof. Peng CUI, is an expert in physical geography and disaster risk reduction. His research interests involve geo-hazards, erosion and sediment yield, fluvial geomorphology. He has been engaged in geo-hazards for decades and obtained acknowledged achievements in debris-flow mechanism and disaster risk management. He currently leads an international research program of Silk Road Disaster Risk Reduction (SiDRR) which is supported by CAS for the regional and global actions on disaster risk reduction and sustainable development. He has been long devoted to disaster risk reduction both in China and abroad, collaborating with countries including Italy, Pakistan, Nepal, India, Thailand, Venezuela and Cuba and developed a series of risk reduction technologies. The techniques have been successfully applied to the mega debris-flow event in Venezuela (1999), the large dammed lake in Pakistan (2010), the earthquake in Nepal (2015) and the geo-hazards along the Karakoram Highway in Pakistan (2018). He has published more than 300 journal papers, obtained 20 patents of disaster mitigation technology, and won ‘the Distinguished Researcher Award’ of WASWAC.