This book presents the select proceedings of the International Conference on Trends and Recent Advances in Civil Engineering (TRACE 2024). It covers on the latest research in geomatics, water resources and environmental engineering. The book particularly focuses on topics like technological intervention and solutions for water security, sustainability in water resources infrastructure, crop protection, resilience to disasters like floods, hurricanes and drought, geointelligence for disaster management and smart and intelligent solutions for water and environmental issues. It will be a valuable resource for researchers and professionals working in geomatics, water resources and environmental engineering domains.

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Prof. (Dr.) Krishna Reddy is currently working as a Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Director of the Sustainable Engineering Research and Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering laboratories at the University of Illinois, Chicago, United States of America (USA). Dr. Reddy received his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago. He has been awarded gold medals for his academic performance during both his BS (Civil Engineering) at Osmania University, India and MS (Civil Engineering) at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Roorkee. He specializes in geotechnical and geoenvironmental engineering and sustainable and resilient engineering. His work has a particular emphasis on soil mechanics, foundation engineering, environmental remediation, waste management, landfill design and development and applications of sustainability and resilience frameworks. Dr. Reddy has published four books, including two well-known textbooks - 'Geoenvironmental Engineering: Site Remediation, Waste Containment*,* and **Emerging Waste Management Technologies' and 'Sustainable Engineering: Drivers, Metrics, Tools, and Applications'. He has also authored 310 journal papers, 35 edited books including conference proceedings, 27 book chapters and 262 full conference papers. Dr. Reddy has an h-index of 75 with over 20,000 citations. He has received several awards for his excellence in research and teaching, including the Fulbright US Scholar Award, the ASCE Wesley W. Horner Award, the ASTM Hogentogler Award, the UIC Distinguished Researcher Award, the University of Illinois Scholar Award, and the University of Illinois Award for Excellence in Teaching. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers.

Prof (Dr.) Nidhi Nagabhatla is a Program Lead ' Climate Change and Natural Resource' at the United Nations University Institute on Comparative Regional Integration Studies (UNU-CRIS). She is a sustainability science specialist and a systems analyst. With close to 25 years of work experience, she has led, coordinated, and implemented transdisciplinary projects in various geographical regions of Asia, Africa, Europe and the Americas. She has worked with many international organisations including the International Water Management Institute (IWMI), World Fish Centre, International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), Asia Pacific Climate Centre and the United Nations University (INWEH) and has led research and capacity development initiatives. She is also affiliated with leading academic institutes like the Oxford University, United Kingdom (UK) and the Leibniz University, Germany in various roles related to sustainability research, science-policy interfacing and mentoring young professionals. Dr. Nagabhatla is also an Adjunct Associate Professor at the School of Earth, Environment & Society McMaster University, Canada, and a Guest Professor at Universidad Mayor de San Andrés, Bolivia. She also serves as research professor at Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, University of Ghent Belgium. She has served as the Chair of The Partnership for Environment and Disaster Risk Reduction (UNEP) and co-leads the 'Water and Migration Working Group' of The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations. She also served on the Technical Committee of The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) from 2013- 2018 and was a lead author in the Global Assessment Report. She also served as the Vice-Chair and Chair of the Steering Board for the Young Professional Platform for Agriculture Research and Development (YPARD), FAO from 2011-2018. At present, she is actively involved with working committees of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration (2021-2030). Dr. Nagabhatla holds a doctoral degree from the Indian Space Research Organization in Environmental Science, post-doctoral experience working Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), and a diploma in International Humanitarian Law from The National Academy of Legal Studies and Research, India. She holds executive education from Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, where she affiliates as a Chevening fellow with the Future Leaders Programme of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, UK. She has published more than 250 papers as peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, conference papers, workshop contributions, and policy briefs and serves on the editorial and review committees of numerous international journals.

Prof. (Dr.) S. K. Singh serves as the Professor and Dean, at Delhi Technological University (DTU), Delhi. He has obtained his Ph.D. from Birla Institute of Technology And Science (BITS), Pilani, M.Tech. from IIT (BHU), Varanasi and B.E. from Gorakhpur University having first division with distinction throughout. He has been engaged in teaching, research, administration, and consultancy for the last 33 years and is has been serving as the Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering for the past 22 years at DTU, Delhi. He is also the Independent Director, WAPCOS Limited (A Mini Ratna-I PSU, GOI). He has guided 12 Ph.D. and about 75 M.Tech. thesis and more than 180 UG Projects. He has participated in various national and international conferences, published more than 238 research papers in national and international journals of repute and authored 06 books. He has provided technical assistance as a Member of groups of experts, set up for determining polluting industries in NCT of Delhi. He has also been involved in the examined proposals for establishing degree/diploma level technical institutions in NCT of Delhi and in the evaluation of projects for the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Ministry of Environment and Forest, Government of India. Prof. Singh is a Member of the Board of Governors, Central Soil and Materials Research Station (CSMRS), Ministry of Water Resources, Government of India, the Chairman, of the Departmental Promotion Committee, Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute (IASRI) (ICAR) New Delhi. He is also a member of the University Court, University of Delhi, an expert member of the Equivalence Committee, UPSC, New Delhi and Advisor at the Selection Committee for recruitment at UPSC, New Delhi and a Technical Expert for various committees of MoEFCC, GOI. He also serves as an Expert Member, DST, GOI, a member, Expert Committee, CAPART, Ministry of Rural Development, GOI. Various professional bodies have felicitated him and presented him with awards including the APJ Abdul Kalam Award 2016, the Rashtriya Shiksha Gaurav Puraskar 2014, the International Felicitation and WEC-IIEE-IAEWP Environmental Award, the Rashtriya Samman Puraskar 2005, the Excellent Services Award, Clean Up The Earth Award and the Eminent Personality Award.

Dr. Soundharajan Bankaru Swamy is currently working as an Associate Professor of Water Resources Management in the Department of Civil Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore. He obtained his PhD from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras. His previous work experience includes Heriot-Watt University, UK (2012-2016) and the Internatio…