Surface Modeling: High Accuracy and High Speed Methods (Applied Ecology and Environmental Management)

Applied Ecology and Environmental Management

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Stakeholder groups use integrated models to explore the possible futures. Using these models can lead to improving social infrastructure institutional capacity and urban resilience.

For this session we aim to bring together scholars who develop integrated models of urban systems and use them for policy support on topics like water governance, hurricane impacts, urban metabolism, urban heat effects, etc. Those models include both social dimensions actions of residents, political economy, evacuations, and land use change as well as biophysical dimensions urban climate, water runoff, subsidence, and pollution.

The popularity of participatory modelling PM has grown considerably in recent years with the acknowledgement that the inclusion of stakeholders and a variety of perspectives are required to improve our understanding of social-ecological systems and current environmental problems.

Surface modeling; high accuracy and high speed methods.

Yet a vast gap exists between what scientists know and what managers, policy-makers and other decision-makers do. The proposed session and the linked workshop will focus on interfaces, tools, methods and approaches that can be used in participatory modelling and stakeholder interaction, and effectively lead to action-oriented outcomes.

The session and workshop will also consider ways of engaging decision-makers and stakeholders in a modelling process and methods for embedding modelling into decision making. We seek to attract action researchers and practitioners to explore recent developments in modelling with stakeholders, and invite papers on such efforts and on visualization, analytics, interaction, documentation, recording, and conceptualizing technologies that can help in these efforts.

By bringing together diverse perspectives, we hope to assess current trends in the field and define new questions that characterize future directions in PM. We invite abstracts and proposals that represent a wide range of perspectives, including those from computer scientists, social and natural scientists, and cognitive scientists as well as those of decision-makers, managers or stakeholder experts.

Some potential questions appropriate for this session include: How can computer models and mental models be better integrated to support decision-making? How computer interfaces can assist in linking mental models with systems models? How can they be improved for that purpose? How can model output be translated into terms meaningful for decision-makers? Audiences will be exposed to critical thinking on ecological flows of ecosystem services and their valuation methods. Our session welcomes three topics: Modelling Ecosystem Service ES provision requires the integration of models from different scientific domains to represent complex socio-ecological systems and should aim to capture both the potential service provided and the beneficiaries.

Green infrastructure in cities is heavily designed and managed, providing the opportunity to deliver multiple services. In order to identify the potential synergies or unintended consequences of interventions, integrated modelling approaches are needed, making use of inter- and trans-disciplinary collaborations.

For example, modelling the contribution of vegetation to air pollution removal, urban cooling, and flood mitigation covers several scientific disciplines. Consideration of how people benefit from ES also requires input from psychology, economics, and social sciences. Interventions affecting the spatial configuration of green infrastructure involve engagement with stakeholders, civic society and planning authorities. However, many ES approaches fail to join these different components adequately.

This session invites contributions covering the application of modelling approaches linking multiple services and beneficiaries, focusing on ES in urban environments. In this context, it proposes to reconcile the water demand of society drinking water, agriculture, industry, cities, leisure, etc. In turn, ecosystem services are the many and varied benefits that humans freely gain from the natural environment. These natural benefits must be taken into account when studying the water management plans in a context of global change. For water resources, the related ecosystem services belong to provisioning, regulation, and cultural categories.

In this session, we will focus on modelling platforms and methodologies using tools integrating ecosystem services and their socio-economic evaluation to better analyze and manage water resources in changing global environment.

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We encourage examples of innovative analyses of factors placing considerable pressure on this resource, studies dealing with mitigating tensions around its use, and innovative methods to quantify services regulating use and their economic evaluation. The simulations assessing a range of future climate scenarios to anticipate water needs from a social and environmental perspective. An important target is the secure provision of food, water, and energy for an increasing world population. Given the complex relationships between these three domains, an integrated approach beyond disciplinary thinking is required to improve our understanding the function of this food-energy-water nexus FEW-Nexus and generate knowledge that can be translated into effective decision making, e.

Integrated modelling and scenario development are powerful tools for investigating the linkages between society and environment within the FEW-Nexus for both current and future conditions. The objective of the proposed session is to introduce and discuss new approaches to integrated modelling related to the FEW-Nexus and to present and discuss state-of-the-art case studies across varying spatial and temporal scales. Particular emphasis lies on the application of models in the context scenario analyses to inform decision-making processes.

As pressures on water supplies such as population growth and climate change are ever increasing, the need arises to better understand urban water demand and assess the potential water demand reduction that can be achieved via water conservation and reuse strategies. Models have been developed across the world to address this need. Possible topics to be covered in this session include demand forecasting for residential and commercial, industrial and institutional water users, assessing socio-economic factors that impact water use, assessing the potential of water demand reduction strategies to increase reliability and resilience of water supplies and life cycle cost and environmental impacts of water conservation and reuse strategies.

Use of alternate water supplies such as treated wastewater, graywater and stormwater are of particular interest. Although Integrated Water Resources Management IWRM is probably thought mostly in terms of policies and plans for water supply and water quality, a comprehensive approach to water resource management in keeping with IWRM principles should properly include flood and flood risk management as well.

There is an urgent need to develop and apply new interfaces, methods and approaches that integrate the IWRM goals in the face of increasing demands and uncertainties. This session is aimed at bringing together scientists, modelers, analysts and managers interested in flood risk management and water supply management in multi-purpose reservoir systems, in the expectation that synergies will be developed in the integrated use of specialized modelling tools.

Both quantitative and qualitative contributions, in both management and research settings, are welcome. Effective environmental management requires several decisions addressing a suite of technical, economic, and social concerns. The vital and challenging process of making decisions faces uncertainty and multiple and often conflicting objectives.

Although each environmental remediation problem is unique and requires a site-specific analysis, many of the key decisions are similar in structure. This has led many to attempt to develop integrated environmental modelling tools. These tools can facilitate reproducible and transparent decision making and also can be useful for establishing and rationalizing management processes.

Integrated assessment and modelling of environmental systems also entails various challenges. A closed system approach traditionally modeled in a silo, assuming constant or exogenous driving variables from other systems, may no longer be capable of answering certain questions, particularly related to macroscale issues including non-point source pollution and resource allocation, among many others. In this session, we will discuss the lessons learned from multiple integrated modelling case studies and the research knowledge gained.

We invite researchers from various disciplines involved in environmental management to participate in this session and present their cutting edge research, ideas, and tools. Traditional modeling of urban water systems has focused on pipe flows, i. A more holoistic approach to modeling the urban water cycle includes coupling of piped systems with the energy cycle as well as interactions with vegetation, urban soils, and geology. Possible topics for inclusion in this session are: Collaborations integrating interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research and approaches into environmental modelling can enrich the ways in which environmental modelling considers research design, implementation, and data analysis.

This can add context, depth, and accuracy to environmental modelling thus enhancing the models and their data for complex decision-making and policy formulation. The increase in the complexity of the challenges we face i. This ranges from integration of traditional discipline-based knowledge to fields that transcend disciplines and science-practice boundaries such as gender studies and monitoring and evaluation.

This session is a call for researchers and practitioners who have been engaging in innovative, interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary collaboration in environmental modelling, with topics including but not limited to: In IWRM case applications and research, the goal is to achieve effective exchange of knowledge among participants and subject matter experts, in order to improve reasoning and substantive dialogue about the water resource management issues in question.

The pinnacle achievement is actual science-based decisions informed by the best science and social science possible and supported by well-reasoned deliberation among decision makers and stakeholders. However, during this process there are many points in which the link between science and stakeholder consultation can be lost, leading to sub-optimal outcomes.

This session invites presentations of IWRM experiences related to: Anthropogenic activities and management of natural resources have vital implications for human and ecological health, and well-being of our communities. Furthermore, extreme events can have profound impacts on human health, shattering the most vulnerable communities and instilling enormous costs on governments and economies. This stream focuses on modelling efforts to address these challenges. Environmental Fluid Mechanics EFM is the scientific study of transport, dispersion and transformation processes in natural fluid flows on our planet Earth, from the microscale to the planetary scale.

Stratification and turbulence are two essential ingredients of EFM. Stratification occurs when the density of the fluid varies spatially, as in a sea breeze where masses of warm and cold air lie next to each other or in an estuary where fresh river water flows over saline seawater. Turbulence is the term used to characterize the complex, seemingly random motions that continually result from instabilities in fluid flows. Turbulence is ubiquitous in natural fluid flows because of the large scales that these flows typically occupy.

The processes studied by EFM are of paramount importance for the environmental quality of the natural air and water systems as well of the urban systems interacting with the hydrosphere and the atmosphere. For this session papers reporting observational, experimental, numerical and theoretical investigations would be welcome. The session will be organized in two parts: Research, applications, and best management practices are needed to improve predictability, increase resilience and address knowledge gaps related to impacts of extreme events such as hurricanes, severe storms, and wildfires on surface and groundwater quality.

This session invites researchers with diverse backgrounds to discuss three main topics: Research findings, tools, and applications that improve our capability to model and forecast impacts of extreme events on surface and groundwater resources quality; 2 Increase resilience: Best management practices, tools, and water treatment techniques to increase the resilience of soil and water resources against changing climate and extreme events including but not limited to fires and hurricanes; 3 Fundamental Processes: The student resources previously accessed via GarlandScience.

Applied Ecology and Environmental Management. What are VitalSource eBooks? For Instructors Request Inspection Copy. Although GIS provides powerful functionality for spatial analysis, data overlay and storage, these spatially oriented systems lack the ability to represent temporal dynamics, which is a major impediment to its use in surface modeling. However, rapid development of computing technology in recent years has made real-time spatial analysis and real-time data visualization become realizable. Based on newly developed methods, Surface Modeling: High Accuracy and High Speed Methods explores solutions to big-error and slow-efficiency problems, two critical challenges that have long plagued those working in with geographical information system GIS and computer-aided design CAD.

By developing high accuracy and high speed methods for surface modeling, the book builds a bridge between the mathematical-oriented theory of surface modeling and the user-oriented application where the user is actually able to retrieve information on the method itself. The author examines a novel method of high accuracy surface modeling HASM in terms of the fundamental theorem of surfaces. Ecotoxicology and Chemistry Applications in Environmental Management describes how to set up an integrated, holistic approach to addressing ecotoxicological problems. It provides detailed explanations in answer to questions like "Why is it necessary to apply an integrated approach?

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