Urban Food-Energy-Water-Waste Nexus Analysis for Sustainable Development: North America Experience
Distinguished Research Seminar Series
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Date
04 Jan 2024
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Organiser
Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, PolyU
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Time
09:00 - 10:30
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Venue
Online via ZOOM
Speaker
Prof. Ni-Bin Chang
Remarks
Meeting link will be sent to successful registrants
Summary
Urban areas often face versatile stressors (e.g., food security, congestion, energy shortage, water and air pollution, water scarcity, waste management, and flooding), requiring better resilient and sustainable infrastructure systems. This presentation will discuss the vital components in the integrated Food-Energy-Water-Waste (FEWW) nexus and explore such an integrated infrastructure system to realize possible pathways to carbon neutrality. Both Orlando and Miami in Florida are selected as case-based practices via multi-agent modeling to demonstrate sustainability transitions of urban FEWW infrastructure system based on a living laboratory approach for circular economy. Scenario-based analyses help evaluate climate change impacts, policy instruments, and land use teleconnection in the FEWW nexus, demonstrating regional synergies among these components. Resilience and sustainability assessment can be confirmed from building scale to community scale to urban scale stepwise. How to scale up urban agriculture via technological hub integration will be highlighted in terms of challenges and opportunities during my discussion. The use of multicriteria decision-making coupled with cost-benefit-risk tradeoff analysis support scenario-based analyses finally.
Keynote Speaker
Prof. Ni-Bin Chang
Professor of Sustainable System Engineering
Department of Civil, Environmental, and Construction Engineering,
University of Central Florida, US
Dr. Ni-Bin Chang is a Professor of Sustainable System Engineering at University of Central Florida, having held this post in the United States since 2005. He has 30+ years of experience in research, teaching, and outreach/community services. Chang’s research lies at the intersection of sustainability science and sustainable engineering with a highly interdisciplinary nature, having published 320+ peered review journal articles. He has received 40+ honor/awards since 1987, including the Outstanding Achievement Award from the American Society of Civil Engineers in 2010, the Bridging the Gaps Award from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council in the United Kingdom in 2012, the Distinguished Visiting Fellowship from the Royal Academy of Engineering in the United Kingdom in 2014, the Blaise Pascal Medal (Fields Medal) from the European Academy of Sciences in 2016, and Fulbright Canada Research Chair Award (finalist) in 2020. Up to now, he has been involved in $18.66 million of research projects and has received 14 US patents for his inventions of green sorption media (filtration technology) for the removal of multiple pollutants simultaneously. Chang is inducted Fellow of 9 professional societies, including the International Society of Optics and Photonics (SPIE), the Royal Society of Chemistry (the United Kingdom) (RSC), the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA), the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the Institute of Electronics and Electrical Engineers (IEEE), the International Association of Advanced Materials (IAAM), the National Academy of Inventors (the United States) (NAI), and the European Academy of Sciences (EurASC). He was the program director in the Hydrologic Sciences Program and the Cyber-Innovation Sustainability Science and Engineering Program at the National Science Foundation from Aug. 2012 to Aug. 2014.
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