H14C:
Connecting Environment, Technology, and Society: Decision Support Tools for Built Environments I

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Session ID#: 34877

Session Description:
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 development and application of decision-support tools and frameworks 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. are welcome.
Primary Convener:  Mitchell Pavao-Zuckerman, University of Maryland College Park, Department of Environmental Science and Technology, College Park, MD, United States
Conveners:  Colin Bell, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, United States, Masoud Negahban-Azar, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States and Terri S Hogue, Colorado School of Mines, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Golden, CO, United States
Chairs:  Colin Bell, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, United States and Mitchell Pavao-Zuckerman, University of Maryland, Environmental Science & Technology, College Park, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Mitchell Pavao-Zuckerman, University of Maryland, Environmental Science & Technology, College Park, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
  • NH - Natural Hazards
  • SI - Societal Impacts and Policy Sciences
Index Terms:

0493 Urban systems [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0495 Water/energy interactions [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
1847 Modeling [HYDROLOGY]
1871 Surface water quality [HYDROLOGY]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Strategic behavior and governance challenges in self-organized coupled natural-human systems (284277)
Rachata Muneepeerakul, University of Florida, Agricultural and Biological Engineering, Ft Walton Beach, FL, United States and John Martin Anderies, Arizona State University, School of Sustainability, Tempe, United States
Decision Network for Blue Green Solutions to Influence Policy Impact Assessments (238450)
Ana Mijic, Imperial College London, London, SW7, United Kingdom, Georgios Theodoropoulos, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, Mohamad H. El Hattab, Imperial College London, Civil and Environmental Engineering, London, SW7, United Kingdom and Kathryn Brown, Committee on Climate Change, London, United Kingdom
Using game theory to analyze green stormwater infrastructure implementation policies (206247)
Reshmina Keren William, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States, Jugal Garg, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering, Urbana, IL, United States and Ashlynn S Stillwell, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Urbana, United States
Using Agent-Based Modeling to Enhance System-Level Real-time Control of Urban Stormwater Systems (299579)
Sara Rimer, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, United States, Abhiram Mullapudi Mullapudi, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States and Branko Kerkez, University of Michigan, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
A modeling tool to support decision making in future hydropower development in Chile (264737)
Chris Hermansen1, Sebastian Vicuna2, Juan Pablo Cerda3, Marcelo A Olivares4, Tomas Ignacio Gomez5, Esteban Toha6, David Poblete7, Luca Mao8, Mark John Falvey9, Patricio Pliscoff10, Oscar Melo7, Shaw Lacy11, Matias Peredo12, Pablo A. Marquet13, Julio Maturana6 and Jorge A Gironas14, (1)Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States, (2)Centro de Cambio Global UC, Santiago, Chile, (3)TECO Group SpA, Las Condes, Santiago, Chile, (4)Faculty of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, University of Chile, Department of Civil Engineering, Santiago, Chile, (5)University of Chile, Department of Geophysics, Santiago, Chile, (6)Ministerio de Energía de Chile, División de Desarrollo Sustentable, Santiago, Chile, (7)Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, Santiago, Chile, (8)University of Lincoln, School of Geography, Lincoln, United Kingdom, (9)University of Chile, Santiago, Chile, (10)Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, Instituto de Geografía y Departamento de Ecología, Santiago, Chile, (11)Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, Centro de Cambio Global, Santiago, Chile, (12)Platform research on Ecohydrology and Ecohydraulic Ltd., Santiago, Chile, (13)Institute of Ecology & Biodiversity, Santiago, Chile, (14)Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Departamento de Ingeniería Hidráulica y Ambiental, Santiago, Chile
From Awareness to Action: Determining the climate sensitivities that influence decision makers (Invited) (276506)
Casey Brown, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Amherst, United States

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