37 research outputs found
Natural Disaster: Implications in a Post-Katrina World, 18th Annual Red Clay Conference Keynote Address
No full textIn the wake of last year’s devastating hurricane season, organizers of the 18th Annual Red Clay Conference planned a day of panels and expert commentary to review the lessons learned and to explore how to be better prepared in the future. The keynote address was delivered by nationally recognized expert on environmental law and land use Rob R.M. Verchick. Verchick addressed issues related to natural disasters like Katrina and their implications on both a national and state-wide scale
Natural Disaster: Implications in a Post-Katrina World, 18th Annual Red Clay Conference
No full textIn the wake of last year’s devastating hurricane season, organizers of the 18th Annual Red Clay Conference planned a day of panels and expert commentary to review the lessons learned and to explore how to be better prepared in the future
In-Between Nature: Reconsidering Design Practices for Territories In-Between from a Social-Ecological Perspective
No full textDuring past decades, Territories in-Between (TiB) have gained increased attention among researchers in the field of urban planning and design. TiB are often considered to be underused, lack spatial quality and are under mounting pressure of urban densification. However, the rich diversity of land uses and abundance of semi-open spaces in the TiB provide unique habitats and social-ecological potentials, different from exclusively urban or rural landscapes. Therefore, urban planners and designers should reconsider conventional planning and design approaches towards these kinds of territories. The objective of this paper is to present a holistic planning and design approach towards TiB which acknowledges and strengthens its unique social-ecological potentials on local and regional scales. The new spatial planning concept that was developed through a ‘research-by-design’ process is called: The Recovering Membrane. This concept was developed for the city of Rotterdam. The Recovering Membrane is defined as a spatial layer of interaction between two distinctive living environments – urban and rural – and various human and non-human actors in them. The research puts forward that design for the TiB should consider the urban fringe as a distinctive kind of TiB with unique social-ecological potentials. Moreover, spatial design should strengthen existing spatial qualities of the TiB, to protect its pressured, yet highly valuable, characteristics. Additionally, local nature-based interventions can provide an important tool for placemaking in the TiB, especially when integrated with long-term and large-scale area transformations.Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository 'You share, we take care!' - Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Spatial Planning and StrategyLandscape Architectur
Uncertainty analysis for industrial electrification systems: An Exploratory Modelling and Analysis (EMA) approach to mapping the effect of various uncertain factors on the performance of Power-to-X options for an integrated chemical cluster in the Port of Rotterdam
No full textAcknowledged by the United Nations as part of their sustainable development goals, reduction of greenhouse gas emissions is paramount in preserving our planet for future generations. Electrication in the industrial sector is considered one of the energy transition pathways that can contribute to meeting the emission reduction targets of the Paris Agreement. An important barrier that needs to be overcome in order to fully adopt its potential is uncertainty and its risk to the implementation of different electrication alternatives. The absence of information that illustrates the effect of uncertainty on the performance of these alternatives decreases the stability of business cases and hinders the decision-making process. To filll a part of this knowledge gap, this research performed a case-study revolving around a mixed integer linear programming (MILP) model of an integrated chemical cluster in the Port of Rotterdam. The effect of the uncertain factors on the KPIs was analyzed using an exploratory modelling and analysis (EMA) approach. In addition, a key opportunity of the MILP model was utilized by changing the objective function to look at individual and collective actor optimization perspectives. This research implicates that EMA can be an effective approach to explore the effect of various uncertain factor on industrial systems undergoing electrication. Furthermore, when the goal is to perform a broad uncertainty analysis that allows for easy implementation of actor optimization perspectives while requiring only limited information about the uncertain factors in the form of sampling bandwidths, the combination of EMA and MILP can be a powerful tool
Annual Red Clay Conference to focus on natural disaster planning
No full textWednesday, March 22, 2006
WRITER: Heidi Murphy, 706/542-5172, [email protected] CONTACT: Michelle Wyant, [email protected]
Annual Red Clay Conference to focus on natural disaster planning
ATHENS, Ga. – In the wake of last year\u27s devastating hurricane season, organizers of the 18th Annual Red Clay Conference have planned a day of panels and expert commentary to review the lessons learned and to explore how to be better prepared in the future. The conference will be held Friday, March 31, at the University of Georgia School of Law.
The keynote speaker will be nationally recognized expert on environmental law and land use Rob R.M. Verchick, the Gauthier-St. Martin Eminent Scholar Chair in Environmental Law at Loyola University in New Orleans. Since the Hurricane Katrina disaster, he has traveled the nation discussing Katrina, what went wrong, what could have been improved and the lessons that can be taken from the experience in preparation for future natural disasters. At the conference, Verchick will address all of these issues and their implications on both a national scale and as they relate to Georgia.
Panel topics to be covered include: planning and preparation for emergency response, land use policy to prevent and mitigate against natural disasters, insurance implications, and health and safety issues. Authorities from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the Small Business Administration, the Environmental Protection Agency, the American Bar Association, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Southern Environmental Law Center and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will serve as panelists.
This one-day conference is open to the public. Registration is 100 fee will be waived for faculty, staff and students. It is expected to draw an attendance of more than 75 attorneys, government leaders, environmental advocates, academics and students. For attorneys, continuing legal education (CLE) is available.
Registration information and a detailed schedule can be found on the conference’s Web site at www.law.uga.edu/redclay.
Sponsored by the Environmental Law Association, the Red Clay Conference was established to increase public awareness of environmental issues of regional, national and international significance through a series of educational presentations and open forum discussions.
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Revealed likelihood and knightian uncertainty
No full textexpected utility theory;uncertainty;revealed preference
Characterizing properties of approximate solutions for optimization problems
No full textoptimization
The effect of varying stiffness in CH-47 rotor blades on Rotor Track and Balance
No full textThis work is a part of the Automated Rotor Blade Inspection (ARBI) project. ARBI aims to improve the rotorcraft RTB process with novel rotor blade measurement equipment. The objective of this research is to investigate how the variation in structural properties of the rotor blades composite structure affects the dynamical response during the RTB process. It is hypothesized that the variation in stiffness and shift in the center of gravity of the structure is caused by in-service defects and repairs.The results of the NDI inspections give a detailed overview of what type of non-uniformities are found in CH-47 rotor blades. A 2D analytical model is developed to quantify structural blade properties of blades that contain non-uniformities. This model provides the ability to determine the impact of these non-uniformities on the structural parameters based on NDI results and helps to improve the FEM model that is used for RTB simulation.Automated Rotor Blade InspectorAerospace Engineerin
Existence and approximation of robust stationary points on polytopes
No full textNash equilibrium;stationary point
