Cities are concentrators of Earth System-Energy-Human interactions. Highly local activity can create global impact through regionally networked and large-scale connections, while people and built infrastructures within cities are increasingly vulnerable to global environmental stresses, population shifts, and intensifying competition over local and wider resources. Emerging scientific approaches integrating multiple urban systems and sectors along with current artificial intelligence modeling are urgently needed to inform the complex tradeoffs facing urban areas, increase resilience to changing stressors, and advance human health and well-being in environmentally sustainable ways.

 

This session invites studies that advance this aim by examining coupled human-environmental-energy systems and their co-evolution using state-of-the-science modeling techniques.

Relevant interdisciplinary examples include:

• Urban micrometeorological dynamics
• Urbanization/population growth
• Adaptation/heat mitigation in urban areas
• Building energy consumption and heat waste
• Resilience to urban heat island/extreme heat/flood/drought risks
• Application of AI to both independent and interdependent urban and environmental processes