Meet the DC Chair for the COST Domain ESSEM
Earth System Science and Environmental Management (ESSEM)
ESSEM encompasses the rapidly-growing science and technology agendas relating to better understanding, observing, modelling and predicting the Earth system and thereby improved management of environmental conditions.
A key aspect is to assess natural and human-induced trends, hazards and impacts on Earth system functioning and the natural resource base. This will imply improving our monitoring, analysis and warning capacities in these areas to enable effective operational forecasts and assessments of critical processes, hazards and management options at a variety of spatial and temporal scales.
The Earth System Science (ESS) aspect address the interactions within and between the major Earth compartments of the atmosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere and biosphere, and include influences of the Sun and the near-space environment. The core of ESS is to enhance our capacity and tools to understand, observe and model these interactions within and between these various compartments, as well as their interactions with human activities.
The Environmental Management aspect complements this by using the enhanced understanding in ESS to enable improved decision support in relation to environmental conditions, especially in the context of risk management.
ESSEM will thus enlarge the scope of the former ‘Environment’ and ‘Meteorology’ Domains by now including stronger emphases on science and technology related to observing, modelling and predicting Earth System changes and severe hazards, by integrating various monitoring techniques and networks, and by improving natural resource management for minimising environmental degradation.
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