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An Environmental Modeling Language For Agents And Fields, Kor de Jong, Merijn de Bakker, Derek Karssenberg 2014 Utrecht University

An Environmental Modeling Language For Agents And Fields, Kor De Jong, Merijn De Bakker, Derek Karssenberg

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

Environmental modeling involves manipulating environmental attributes represented in soft­ware by agents, fields or both, but most modeling environments are designed to be especially useful for either agent-based or field-based modeling. Agent-based and field-based modeling environments have different properties with respect to their ease of use and how well both agents and fields can be represented and manipulated. Most agent-based modeling environments require the modeler to use a general purpose object oriented programming language like Java to express models, while field-based modeling environments often implement a high level, domain specific imperative language based on map algebra, or extent a general purpose …


An Integrated Approach For Including Social Capacities, And Economic Valuation In Risk Assessment Of Water Related Hazards In Uncertain Scenarios, Carlo Giupponi, Vahid Mojtahed, Animesh K. Gain, Stefano Balbi, Claudio Biscaro 2014 Ca' Foscari University of Venice

An Integrated Approach For Including Social Capacities, And Economic Valuation In Risk Assessment Of Water Related Hazards In Uncertain Scenarios, Carlo Giupponi, Vahid Mojtahed, Animesh K. Gain, Stefano Balbi, Claudio Biscaro

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

We propose a conceptual framework, KR-FWK (i.e. KULTURisk Framework from the name of the European project within which it originated) and its implementation methods SERRA (Socio-Economic Regional Risk Assessment) for integrated (physical and economical) risk assessment, and economic valuation of risk prevention benefits on multiple receptors. The KR-FWK and the SERRA approach are characterised by: (i) integration of physical-environmental dimensions and the socio-economic ones in risk assessment; (ii) consideration of the role of social capacities (adaptive and coping capacity) in reducing risk and related costs, (iii) quantitative (even monetary) assessment of risks and of the benefits of risk reduction measures, …


Agile Workflows For Climate Impact Risk Assessment Based On The Ci:Grasp Platform And The Jabc Modeling Framework, Samih Al-areqi, Anna-Lena Lamprecht, Tiziana Margaria, Steffen Kriewald, Dominik Reusser, Markus Wrobel 2014 Potsdam University, Institute of Computer Science

Agile Workflows For Climate Impact Risk Assessment Based On The Ci:Grasp Platform And The Jabc Modeling Framework, Samih Al-Areqi, Anna-Lena Lamprecht, Tiziana Margaria, Steffen Kriewald, Dominik Reusser, Markus Wrobel

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

Analyzing and assessing potential impacts of climate change are critical and challenging tasks that require the processing of large and heterogeneous datasets. These analyses are particularly demanding because of the multi-scale and multi-objective nature of environmental modeling for climate change impact assessment. The Climate Impacts: Global and Regional Adaptation Support Platform (ci:grasp) is a web-based climate information service for exploring climate change related information in its geographical context. In this paper, we show how the agile workflow development style supported by the jABC process modeling and execution framework permits us to leverage the processes implemented in the ci:grasp platform to …


The Data Processing Inequality And Environmental Model Prediction, Steven V. Weijs 2014 Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne

The Data Processing Inequality And Environmental Model Prediction, Steven V. Weijs

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

Prediction in environmental systems, such as hydrological streamflow prediction, is a challenging task. Although on a small scale, many of the physical processes are well described, accurate predictions of macroscopical (e.g. catchment scale) behavior with a bottom-up mechanistic approach often remains elusive. On the other hand, conceptual or purely statistical models fitted to data often perform surprisingly well for prediction. The data processing inequality, from the field of information theory, says that processing data with statistical procedures can only decrease, and not increase the information content of the data. This seems to contradict the intuition that our knowledge of physical …


Managing Agricultural Landscapes For Favouring Ecosystem Services Provided By Biodiversity: A Spatially Explicit Model Of Crop Rotations In The Gama Simulation Platform, Hugo Thierry, Aude Vialatte, Jean-Philippe Choisis, Benoit Gaudou, Claude Monteil 2014 University of Toulouse

Managing Agricultural Landscapes For Favouring Ecosystem Services Provided By Biodiversity: A Spatially Explicit Model Of Crop Rotations In The Gama Simulation Platform, Hugo Thierry, Aude Vialatte, Jean-Philippe Choisis, Benoit Gaudou, Claude Monteil

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

The need to reduce the use of pesticides in agricultural ecosystems requires studying and developing new pest regulation methods. Individual-based models are useful to better understand how dynamics of insects interact with agricultural landscapes and to study the potential effects of alternative regulation methods, taking into account the spatial and temporal stochasticity of agricultural ecosystems caused by human management. Crop rotations and crop phenology have an important impact on the life cycles of populations of insects. We developed an individual-based model simulating the dynamics of an agricultural landscape from GIS data. The spatiotemporal stochasticity is simulated using typical landcover rotations …


Diffuse Nutrient Pollution From Residential Catchments, Melissa Rachelle Butcher 2014 University of South Florida

Diffuse Nutrient Pollution From Residential Catchments, Melissa Rachelle Butcher

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Nonpoint source nutrient pollution is diffuse pollution lacking discrete origin and conveyance. This thesis synthesizes and critically reviews research on residential nitrogen and phosphorus loss to stormwater runoff and leaching. The evaluation pulls from research covering influential socio-demographic indicators, such as use of lawn maintenance services and homeowner fertilizer practices. The extent to which such social and economic factors may influence the prevalence and fate of diffuse nutrients in stormwater runoff from residential areas has not been adequately established. Understanding the source and influencing factors of diffuse nutrient pollution is important in order to effectively protect surface and groundwater resources. …


Inactivation Of Ascaris In Double-Vault Urine-Diverting Composting Latrines In Panama: Methods And Environmental Health Engineering Field Applications, Daragh A. Gibson 2014 University of South Florida

Inactivation Of Ascaris In Double-Vault Urine-Diverting Composting Latrines In Panama: Methods And Environmental Health Engineering Field Applications, Daragh A. Gibson

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

The United Nations Millennium Development Goals have prioritized improving access to sanitation, but unfortunately about a third of the global population is still without an improved sanitation source and one billion still practice open defecation. Lack of access to adequate and safe sanitation means the proliferation of dangerous pathogens in the environment, especially soil-transmitted helminths (STHs). In the Bocas del Toro Province of Panama (and similar locations in the world), composting latrines have been built in many of the indigenous communities in the area. They are a form of dry or ecological sanitation and are designed to produce an end …


Deep Uv-Leds Based On Group Iii-Nitride For Water Disinfection Applications, Iolanda Pio, Vittorianna Tasco, Adriana Passaseo 2014 National Nanotechnology Laboratory, Nanosciences Institute NNL-CNR NANO

Deep Uv-Leds Based On Group Iii-Nitride For Water Disinfection Applications, Iolanda Pio, Vittorianna Tasco, Adriana Passaseo

Wastewater and Biosolids Treatment and Reuse: Bridging Modeling and Experimental Studies

No abstract provided.


On The Sustainable Management Of Sewage Sludge Disposal In Apulia, A.M. Lotito, U. Fratino, M. Blonda 2014 Politecnico di Bari

On The Sustainable Management Of Sewage Sludge Disposal In Apulia, A.M. Lotito, U. Fratino, M. Blonda

Wastewater and Biosolids Treatment and Reuse: Bridging Modeling and Experimental Studies

No abstract provided.


Wastewater Treatment And Reuse In The Oil & Petrochem Industry – A Case Study, Alberto Girardi 2014 Dregemont

Wastewater Treatment And Reuse In The Oil & Petrochem Industry – A Case Study, Alberto Girardi

Wastewater and Biosolids Treatment and Reuse: Bridging Modeling and Experimental Studies

No abstract provided.


Wastewater Reuse In Apulia: Constraints And Perspectives, Vito Colucci 2014 Apulia Hydric Authority

Wastewater Reuse In Apulia: Constraints And Perspectives, Vito Colucci

Wastewater and Biosolids Treatment and Reuse: Bridging Modeling and Experimental Studies

No abstract provided.


Experimental Measurement And Modeling Of Radiation Fields In Tio2 Nanoparticle Photocatalysis, Andrea Turolla, Domenico Santoro, John de Bruyn, Manuela Antonelli 2014 Politecnico di Milano

Experimental Measurement And Modeling Of Radiation Fields In Tio2 Nanoparticle Photocatalysis, Andrea Turolla, Domenico Santoro, John De Bruyn, Manuela Antonelli

Wastewater and Biosolids Treatment and Reuse: Bridging Modeling and Experimental Studies

No abstract provided.


Design Of Semiconductors-Based Composites For The Efficient Photodegradation Of Organic Micropollutants In Water, Giuseppe Mele 2014 University of Salento

Design Of Semiconductors-Based Composites For The Efficient Photodegradation Of Organic Micropollutants In Water, Giuseppe Mele

Wastewater and Biosolids Treatment and Reuse: Bridging Modeling and Experimental Studies

No abstract provided.


Back To Future: The Success Story Of Fasano’S Agricultural Wastewater Reuse Plant, Oronzo Santoro 2014 AquaSoil

Back To Future: The Success Story Of Fasano’S Agricultural Wastewater Reuse Plant, Oronzo Santoro

Wastewater and Biosolids Treatment and Reuse: Bridging Modeling and Experimental Studies

No abstract provided.


Wastewater Reuse In Apulia: Between Dream And Reality, Antonio Lopez 2014 Water Research Institute

Wastewater Reuse In Apulia: Between Dream And Reality, Antonio Lopez

Wastewater and Biosolids Treatment and Reuse: Bridging Modeling and Experimental Studies

No abstract provided.


Sludge Production And Utilization In Italy, Giuseppe Mininni, Giulia Sagnotti 2014 Water Research Institute

Sludge Production And Utilization In Italy, Giuseppe Mininni, Giulia Sagnotti

Wastewater and Biosolids Treatment and Reuse: Bridging Modeling and Experimental Studies

No abstract provided.


Surface Filtration Technologies For Municipal Wastewater Reuse For Irrigation – Preliminary Results Of Demo-Scale Activities, Pompilio Vergine 2014 Water Research Institute

Surface Filtration Technologies For Municipal Wastewater Reuse For Irrigation – Preliminary Results Of Demo-Scale Activities, Pompilio Vergine

Wastewater and Biosolids Treatment and Reuse: Bridging Modeling and Experimental Studies

No abstract provided.


Linear Time Invariant Model Of Anaerobic Digestion Of Waste Activated Sludge, Antonios Sendjaja 2014 Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Linear Time Invariant Model Of Anaerobic Digestion Of Waste Activated Sludge, Antonios Sendjaja

Wastewater and Biosolids Treatment and Reuse: Bridging Modeling and Experimental Studies

No abstract provided.


Temperature Adjustment And Calibration Of An Asm2d-Adm1 Model, A. Fenu 2014 Aquafin

Temperature Adjustment And Calibration Of An Asm2d-Adm1 Model, A. Fenu

Wastewater and Biosolids Treatment and Reuse: Bridging Modeling and Experimental Studies

No abstract provided.


Equilibrium, Kinetic And Thermodynamic Study Of Adsorption Of Rhodamine B From Aqueous Solution By Activated Carbon From Peltophorum Pterocarpum Leaf, B. Jeyaraj, Y. Subbareddy, C. Jayakumar, K.S. Nagaraja, S. Valliammai 2014 Loyola College

Equilibrium, Kinetic And Thermodynamic Study Of Adsorption Of Rhodamine B From Aqueous Solution By Activated Carbon From Peltophorum Pterocarpum Leaf, B. Jeyaraj, Y. Subbareddy, C. Jayakumar, K.S. Nagaraja, S. Valliammai

Wastewater and Biosolids Treatment and Reuse: Bridging Modeling and Experimental Studies

No abstract provided.


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