Keywords

Tool integration; Scenario Planning; EPA models and data

Start Date

25-6-2018 2:00 PM

End Date

25-6-2018 3:20 PM

Abstract

Environmental and health modeling results can be beneficial to communities, especially when making decisions about changes in land use, transportation, buildings and infrastructure, and waste. Often communities do not have knowledge of these models, capacity to use them, or even the expertise to use them. Building models into processes that communities are already using alleviates the problems of knowledge, capacity, and expertise. Many communities employ scenario planning tools to model consequences of possible decisions for changing the communities built environment. Some of these tools provide open architectures that allow additional analytic capabilities as part of these scenarios. This talk discusses two modules that can be used by a number of scenario planning tools that incorporate EPA environmental and health models to aid communities in making better planning decisions.

Stream and Session

C5: Participatory Modelling 2.0: Interfaces, Tools, Methods and Approaches for Linking Stakeholders Decisions, and Environmental Modelling

or

C4: Building Urban Resilience of Coupled Infrastructure Systems

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Jun 25th, 2:00 PM Jun 25th, 3:20 PM

Integrating EPA Models and Data in Open Scenario Planning Tools

Environmental and health modeling results can be beneficial to communities, especially when making decisions about changes in land use, transportation, buildings and infrastructure, and waste. Often communities do not have knowledge of these models, capacity to use them, or even the expertise to use them. Building models into processes that communities are already using alleviates the problems of knowledge, capacity, and expertise. Many communities employ scenario planning tools to model consequences of possible decisions for changing the communities built environment. Some of these tools provide open architectures that allow additional analytic capabilities as part of these scenarios. This talk discusses two modules that can be used by a number of scenario planning tools that incorporate EPA environmental and health models to aid communities in making better planning decisions.