主要内容：The increasing frequency and severity of extreme climate events, combined with unprecedented demographic pressures, changes in lifestyles and technologies, pose formidable challenges to understanding the dynamics of urban centers and the regions within which they are embedded. Yet, if policy and investment decisions are to improve resilience and promote sustainability they do require such understanding as well as an ability to explore how the dynamics change in response to deliberate interventions. Traditional risk assessment and forecasting tools are of only limited use in this context, given the potential for the emergence of novelty and surprises. Drawing on a case study from northern Germany, this presentation provides insight into the interdependencies of rapidly changing environmental and socioeconomic conditions, and, using dynamic modeling and visualization, identifies robust strategies designed to reduce local and global environmental impacts while improving a region’s ability to withstand, or bounce back from, adverse developments.
主講人：Matthias Ruth
主講人簡介：
Dr. Matthias Ruth is Professor at the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs and at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Northeastern University. He serves as Director of the Policy School and the founding director of Northeastern’s Resilient Cities Laboratory as well as the Urban Informatics program.
主講人簡介（中文）：Matthias Ruth是美國東北大學公共政策與城市事務學院、美國東北大學土木與環境工程學院的教授。他同時擔任東北大學公共政策與城市事務學院院長，東北大學韌性城市實驗室、城市信息項目創辦理事。
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講座時間：2017年6月13日10：00-11：30
講座地點：行政樓A812