Advances and new trends in environmental informatics : environmental informatics and the UN Sustainable Development Goals / / Volker Wohlgemuth [and four others], editors

• Pubblicazione: Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , [2023]; ©2023
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (231 pages)
• Disciplina: 333.714
• Soggetto topico: Environmental impact analysis; Environmental monitoring; Environmental policy
• Persona (resp. second.): WohlgemuthVolker
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- About the Editors -- Circular Economy an Industrial Symbiosis -- Cradle-to-Gate Life Cycle Assessment of Bottle-to-Bottle Recycling Plant: Case Study -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Methodology -- 2.1 Goal -- 2.2 Scope -- 2.3 Limitation -- 3 Recycling PET Bottles into Pellets -- 3.1 Collection of Post-consumer Bottles -- 3.2 Production of Recycled PET Pellets -- 4 Life-Cycle Impact Assessment (LCIA) Results and Discussion -- 5 Conclusion -- References -- Property Rights in Servitisation: A Practical Assessment with Reused Computers -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Circular Economy of Computers -- 2.1 Business and Individual Ownership Models -- 3 Electronics Reuse: eReuse -- 4 Collective Ownership Model and the Bundle of Rights -- 5 Results -- 5.1 Business Model, Roles and Rights -- 5.2 Economic Impact -- 5.3 Environmental Impact -- 5.4 Social Impact -- 6 Discussion -- 6.1 Alienation and Exclusion Rights -- 6.2 Management Rights -- 6.3 Product Upgrading and Decision Replacement -- 6.4 Ecosystems -- 6.5 Limitations -- 6.6 Future Work -- 7 Conclusion -- References -- Sustainable Mobility and Sustainable Communities -- Carbon Travel Budgets (CTB): An Alternative Approach to Reduce Corporate Travel Emissions -- 1 Business Travel in Transition -- 2 Related Work -- 3 Categorization of Corporate Travel -- 4 Results -- 4.1 Talking Dimension -- 4.2 The Budgeting Approach -- 4.3 Limitations of the Budgeting Approach -- 5 Proof of Concept -- 6 Discussion and Future Work -- References -- Commuters' Expected Utility Obtained in Decision Making on Residential Location Selection -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Background and Objectives of Research -- 1.2 Relevant Previous Research and New Topics in This Study -- 1.3 Study Overview -- 2 Method for Stable Estimates of Residential Location Selection Utility (RLSU) for Commuters. ; 2.1 Method of Estimating Residential Location Selection Utility (RLSU) -- 2.2 Data Used in Analysis -- 2.3 Results of Residential Location Selection Utility Estimate -- 3 Modeling of Residential Location Selection Utility (RLSU) Using Land Price Data and Land Use Data -- 3.1 Model Estimates and Their Basic Characteristics -- 3.2 Characteristics of Residential Location Selection Utility with Regard to Household Classification -- 4 Modeling of Residential Location Selection Utility Based on Proximity Indicators and Land Use -- 4.1 Results of Estimates by Model and Fundamental Trends in Results -- 4.2 Comparative Analysis Between Estimates of Residential Location Selection Utility and Land Use -- 5 Summary and Conclusions -- References -- Analysis and Improvement of Two Low-Cost Air Quality Sensor Measurements' Uncertainty -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Materials and Methods -- 2.1 Study Area and Experimental Setup -- 2.2 Data Pre-processing -- 2.3 Intercomparison of Measurements -- 2.4 Data-Driven Modelling -- 3 Results and Discussion -- 3.1 Data Pre-processing -- 3.2 Intercomparison of Devices -- 3.3 Uncertainty of PM10 Measurements -- 4 Conclusions -- Appendix A -- References -- Usage of Country Evaluations for Sustainable Supplier Selection -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Identification and Interpretation of Relevant Indicators -- 2.1 Evaluation of a Country's Risk -- 3 Consideration of Existing Systems and Legal Bases -- 3.1 Readiness-Checks to Simplify Company Processes -- 3.2 Importance of Supply Chain Laws -- 4 Combination and Operationalization of the Approaches -- 5 Discussion and Future Work -- References -- Artificial Intelligence Applications -- Spatiotemporal Prediction of Nitrogen Dioxide Based on Graph Neural Networks -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Related Work -- 3 Data -- 4 Methodology -- 4.1 Graph Neural Network. ; 4.2 Attention Temporal Graph Convolutional Network -- 4.3 Evaluation Metrics -- 4.4 Graph Construction -- 5 Experimental Analysis and Results -- 5.1 Results -- 6 Conclusions and Future Work -- References -- Neural Networks for Energy Optimization of Production Processes in Small and Medium Sized Enterprises -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Materials and Methods -- 2.1 Data Preparation -- 2.2 Design of the Neural Network -- 2.3 Training of the Neural Network -- 2.4 Parameter Configuration Optimization -- 3 Results -- 4 Discussion -- References -- Disaster Risk Reduction -- Comprehensive Drone System for Deployment in Disaster Scenarios with Focus on Forest Fire Fighting -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Motivation -- 1.2 Requirements -- 1.3 System Overview -- 2 Related Work -- 3 System Design -- 3.1 Drone -- 3.2 Ground Station -- 3.3 Flight Control -- 3.4 Mission Control -- 3.5 Collision Avoidance -- 3.6 User Interface -- 3.7 Radio Communication -- 4 Outlook -- References -- A Whole-of-Government Approach to Climate change and the Process of Making Cities Resilient: Constructing a Digital Twin Network for Urban Adaptation -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Context of a Tool for Resilient Cities -- 2.1 Product Vision -- 2.2 Comparing Indicator Sets -- 2.3 From Hazard Maps Towards a Co-creatively Workable Digital Twin -- 2.4 Establishing New Networks to Stack the Systems of Systems -- 2.5 Resilience-Platform: Providing Access to Knowledge -- 3 Conclusion and Outlook -- References -- Green Coding and Green IT -- Measuring and Assessing the Resource and Energy Efficiency of Artificial Intelligence of Things Devices and Algorithms -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Related Work -- 3 Experiment Setup and Assessment Method -- 3.1 Operating System Scenario -- 3.2 AI-Algorithm Scenarios -- 3.3 Use-Case Scenario ``Artificial Nose'' -- 4 Exemplary Measurement Results. ; 4.1 Operating System Scenario -- 4.2 AI-Algorithm Scenarios -- 4.3 Use-Case Scenario ``Artificial Nose'' -- 5 Discussion and Outlook -- References -- Energy Efficiency in Web Development: Investigation of the Power Consumption of a Web Application with Different Load Distribution -- 1 Introduction -- 2 State of the Art -- 2.1 Power Consumption of a Web Application -- 2.2 Measurement of Consumption -- 3 Related Work -- 4 Details of the Experimental Setup -- 4.1 Workload -- 4.2 Specifications -- 4.3 Setup of the Experiment -- 4.4 Experimental Procedure -- 5 Results and Discussion -- 6 Summary and Outlook -- References -- Opportunities of 5G Mobile Technology for Climate Protection in Switzerland -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Materials and Methods -- 2.1 Assessment of Direct Effects -- 2.2 Assessment of Indirect Effects -- 3 Results -- 3.1 Direct Effects -- 3.2 Indirect Effects -- 4 Discussion -- 4.1 Direct Effects -- 4.2 Indirect Effects -- 4.3 Comparison of Direct and Indirect Effects -- 4.4 Limitations -- 5 Conclusions -- References.
• Titolo autorizzato: Advances and New Trends in Environmental Informatics
• ISBN: 3-031-18311-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910629286603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Progress in IS.