sensory-motor response to changes regardless whether the earth is considered ‘healthy’ or...
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Sensory-Motor Response to Changes
Regardless whether the Earth is considered ‘healthy’ or ‘sick’, the inevitable and unforeseeable environmental changes require response to these changes: The response includes the following major steps:
The above three steps are the necessary conditions for sustainable development. This is logical since all living organisms use this type of sensory-motor feedback to maintain their existence.
Sensing and recognition (monitoring)
Reasoning and explaining (sciences)
Decision making, action (management)
Air Quality Management: Sensory Data to Action
AirQuality
AssessmentCompare to GoalsPlan ReductionsTrack Progress
Controls (Actions)
Monitoring(Sensing)
Set GoalsCAAA
NAAQS
Assessment performs data analysis to turn data into useful knowledge for decision making and actions
Multi-sensory data are collected through Monitoring and delivered for Assessment
Sustainable Development – Causality LoopEconomic Development with Due Care of the Environment
The system approach links human activities and their consequences in closed loop
It is the minimum set of linked components – if any missing, the system is crippled
Each component depends on its causal upstream driver – and external environment
The causal loop can be used as an organizing principle for sustainability analysis
Causality: Linear System Model
Population - Energy/Goods Consumption– Materials Flow - Emissions
Ek = cjk EMj = bij cjk GEi = ai bij cjk P
Industr. Energy
Transp. Energy
ResCom.Engy
Coal
Oil
GasElectric Energy
SOx
NOx
HC
PM
Goods &Energy,(GE) i Fuels&Mater.(FM), j Emission (EM), k
Ind. Chemicals
Industr. Goods
Pop., P
Metals
Mercury
ai
Consump./Person
bij
Fuels/Energy
cjk
Emission/Fuel-
j ji i i j
Consumption of Goods and Energy: GE = ai P
Fuels and Materials Flow: FM = ai bij P
Emission of Pollutants: EM = ai bij cjk P
Industrial Prod.
Transportation
ResComercial
EconMeasure(EM)
Population - Energy/Goods Consumption– Materials Flow - Emissions
Ek = cjk FMj = bij cjk GEi = ai bij cjk P
Industr. Energy
Transp. Energy
ResCom.Engy
Electric Energy
SOx
NOx
HC
PM
Goods &Energy,(GE) i Fuels&Mater.(FM), j Emission (EM), k
Ind. ChemicalsIndustr. Goods
Pop., P
Metals
Mercury
ai
Consump./Person
bij
Fuels/Energy
cjk
Emission/Fuel-
j ji i i j
Consumption of Goods and Energy: GE = ai P
Fuels and Materials Flow: FM = ai bij P
Emission of Pollutants: EM = ai bij cjk P
Industrial Prod.
Transportation
ResComercial
EconMeasure(EM)
CoalCoalCoalCoal
OilOilOilOil
GasGasGasGas