Grand Challenges in Environmental Systems Engineering
December 6, 2021 - Wang, Can
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Abstract: The world is facing multiple environmental challenges simultaneously, such as environmental pollution, climate change, energy security, resource availability, ecosystem degradation, and biodiversity loss. Tackling these challenges has become increasingly complex due to the growing cross-temporal, cross-spatial, and cross-system human-environment interactions (Liu et al., 2015; Wang et al., 2019). Environmental Systems Engineering (ESE) applies systematic thinking and methods to simulate and manage the complex human-environment interactions, aiming to seek effective solutions for sustainable development. ESE research has made significant progress in the past few decades, including: 1) construction of comprehensive analysis framework; 2) identification of key drivers and boundaries of environmental systems change; 3) investigation of influencing mechanisms of human-nature interactions; 4) development of mathematical simulation and modeling methods; 5) integrated utilization of data from different sources; and 6) expansion of environmental systems modeling across spatial, temporal and organizational scales.
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