Dear colleagues, We would like to invite you to submit an abstract for our AGU 2018 session: GC029: Decision-Support Tools To Assess Social And Environmental Processes In The Built Environment.
This session focuses on interdisciplinary approaches to development, building, testing, and implementation of decision-support in cities and the built environment. Link: https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm18/prelim.cgi/Session/53148 Abstract: The nature of the built environment alters water, energy, carbon, and nutrient flows at local and regional scales, making it an arbiter of sustainability and resilience. Linked and interacting environmental, social, and technical processes determine the sustainability and resilience outcomes in built environments. The complexity and interdisciplinarity of these problems pose challenges for management, planning, and decision making. Yet recent approaches to address the built environment from transdicsiplinary perspectives, including social-ecological, coupled human-natural, sociohydrology, sociotechnical, socio-eco- technical, and social-ecological-infrastructural systems approaches, hold promise for a science-informed decision making for the built environment. This session focuses on application of decision-support tools that draw on these interdisciplinary approaches to solve environmental challenges in the built environment. We invite contributions that explore this question across disciplinary boundaries. Various themes and issues, including urban water resilience, green infrastructure ecosystem services, renewable energy production, life cycle analysis, etc. etc. are welcome. Co-organized with: hydrology, atmospheric sciences, biogeochemistry, societal impacts and policy sciences Swirl: Science & Society Session conveners: Mitchell Pavao-Zuckerman & Masoud Negahban-Azar, University of Maryland, College Park
