Dirk Scheer

This book provides a broad overview of essential features of subsurface environmental modelling at the science-policy interface, offering insights into the potential challenges in the field of subsurface flow and transport, as well as the corresponding computational modelling and its impact on the area of policy- and decision-making. The book is divided into two parts: Part I presents models, methods and software at the science-policy interface. Building on this, Part II illustrates the specifications using detailed case studies of subsurface environmental modelling. It also includes a systematic research overview and discusses the anthropogenic use of the subsurface, with a particular focus on energy-related technologies, such as carbon sequestration, geothermal technologies, fluid and energy storage, nuclear waste disposal, and unconventional oil and gas recovery.

This book provides a broad overview of essential features of subsurface environmental modelling at the science-policy interface, offering insights into the potential challenges in the field of subsurface flow and transport, as well as the corresponding computational modelling and its impact on the area of policy- and decision-making. The book is divided into two parts: Part I presents models, methods and software at the science-policy interface. Building on this, Part II illustrates the specifications using detailed case studies of subsurface environmental modelling. It also includes a systematic research overview and discusses the anthropogenic use of the subsurface, with a particular focus on energy-related technologies, such as carbon sequestration, geothermal technologies, fluid and energy storage, nuclear waste disposal, and unconventional oil and gas recovery.

The desire to understand people's influence on ecosystems has inspired scientific studies and analyses of the stress individuals and communities place on the environment, human well-being, and the tradeoffs between them. As an emerging discipline, Structural Human Ecology is devoted to unlocking the dynamic links between population, environment, social organization, and technology. The new field offers cutting-edge research in risk analysis that can be used to evaluate environmental policies and thus help citizens and societies worldwide learn how to most effectively mitigate human impacts on the biosphere. The essays in this volume were presented by leading international scholars at a 2011 symposium honoring the late Dr. Eugene Rosa, then Boeing Distinguished Professor of Environmental Sociology at WSU.

Computersimulationen haben sich als wichtiges Erkenntnisinstrument neben Theorie und Experiment in der Wissenschaft etabliert. Das über Simulationen gewonnene Wissen hat damit auch Einfluss auf andere Gesellschaftsbereiche wie Politik, Wirtschaft und Öffentlichkeit. Dirk Scheer untersucht am Beispiel der geologischen CO2-Abscheidung und Speicherung (engl. Carbon Capture and Storage), wie politikrelevante, wissenschaftliche Simulationen in politischen Entscheidungsprozessen verarbeitet werden. Über eine theoretisch-konzeptionelle Analyse soll zum einen ein besseres und differenzierteres Verständnis von simulationsbasierten Kommunikationsprozessen und deren Wirkung in der Politik erfolgen. Zum anderen sollen empirisch rezeptionsseitige Muster der Informationsaufnahme und -verarbeitung bei politisch-gesellschaftlichen Entscheidungsträgern ermittelt werden.