PUB: Promise and Progress: Introduction

MURUGESU SIVAPALAN, THORSTEN WAGENER, STEFAN UHLENBROOK, ERWIN ZEHE, VENKAT LAKSHMI, XU LIANG, YASUTO TACHIKAWA & PRAVEEN KUMAR 1 Departments of Geography, and Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA sivapala@uiuc.edu 2 Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA 3 UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education, Delft, The Netherlands 4 Institute of Geoecology, University of Potsdam, Germany 5 Department of Geological Sciences, University of South Carolina, Columbia, USA 6 Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, USA 7 Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan 8 Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA