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Food-Energy-Water Nexus Approaches To Climate Change Mitigation And Adaptation, David Watkins
Food-Energy-Water Nexus Approaches To Climate Change Mitigation And Adaptation, David Watkins
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The Food-Energy-Water (FEW) Nexus is defined by the complex interactions and interdependencies of basic resource provisioning systems that tend to be managed and regulated independently of one another. Coupled with maintaining ecosystem services, enhancing food, energy, and water security for the planet’s growing population represents a grand research challenge. With a focus on ecosystem services affected by climate change, two interdisciplinary FEW Nexus projects are briefly presented -- one informing decision making at the household level and the other informing water resources planning and stakeholder consensus at the regional level. At the household level, environmental impact models help to identify …
Mobility And Safety: Do Drivers Behave As Engineers Want Them To Behave?, Pasi T. Lautala
Mobility And Safety: Do Drivers Behave As Engineers Want Them To Behave?, Pasi T. Lautala
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As engineers, we thrive to provide environment for safe mobility through proper geometric designs, regulations, guidance and warnings. However, safe movements are still heavily dependent on the individual behavior and reactions by the drivers/users (at least for now). Traditionally, understanding drivers’ behavior has been a difficult topic to research, but today we have increasing number of data and tools available to improve that understanding. One of the tools that has recently become available is the Naturalistic Driving Study (NDS) database that provides an opportunity to investigate the behavior of almost 3,500 instrumented vehicles and drivers in six different regions of …