June 22, 2012
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HELLA, Iceland – ERDC Environmental Laboratory’s (EL) Dr. Igor Linkov recently organized and directed the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s (NATO) Advanced Research Workshop on Sustainable Cities and Military Installations in Iceland.
Fifty scientists from 16 countries attended the workshop to review the state-of-the science to identify and evaluate energy, water and infrastructure sustainability initiatives that are resilient in the face of multiple challenges and uncertainties and to stimulate collaboration and collective learning between attendees, facilitating discussion of current and emerging technologies and long-term and sustainable strategies.
The workshop focused on ways in which military installations and small cities can integrate energy, water, and waste sustainability and reliable infrastructure system strategies into comprehensive management plans that include threats posed by climate change and other potential stressors. The complexity of the problem, the time and spatial scales of relevance, and the uncertainties associated with long-term planning present critical challenges to current analytical approaches for informing sustainable management decisions.
The organizing committee included ERDC Construction Engineering Laboratory’s Franklin Holcomb and EL’s Dr. James Valverde. Many other ERDC attendees presented, chaired sessions, and served as facilitators for the workshop.