Advances and New Trends in Environmental Informatics: Environmental Informatics and the Un Sustainable Development Goals

This book is an outcome of the 36th International Conference EnviroInfo 2022, held at the University of Hamburg, Germany, organized by the technical committee for Environmental Informatics of the German Informatics Society. It presents a selection of papers that describe innovative scientific approaches and ongoing research in environmental informatics and the emerging field of environmental sustainability, promoted and facilitated by the use of information and communication technologies (ICT). The respective articles cover a broad range of scientific aspects including advancements in core environmental informatics-related technologies such as earth observation, environmental modelling, geographical information systems, sustainable transportation, risk modelling and assessment, artificial intelligence applications, renewable energy-based solutions, optimization of infrastructures, sustainable industrial processes, citizen science, as well as applications of ICT solutions that areaiming at supporting societal transformation processes towards more sustainable management of resource use and energy supply. A special focus is on how environmental informatics research covers the societal challenges of digitalization and sustainability, green in IT, green by IT and their relationships, green data centres, green software engineering, green coding and green environmental management information systems. The book is essential reading for scientists, experts and students in these fields of research.

Dr. Volker Wohlgemuth is a full professor for Industrial Environmental Informatics at the School of Engineering – Technology and Life, HTW Berlin, University of Applied Sciences, Germany. His research fields are material flow management, modelling and simulation, industrial symbiosis and environmental management information systems.  

Dr. Stefan Naumann is a full professor for Computer Science, Mathematics and Environmental/ Sustainability Informatics at the Trier University of Applied Sciences (Environmental Campus Birkenfeld, Germany). His research interests are the environmental impacts of IT, especially of software, and environmental informatics in general.   

Dr. Grit Behrens is a full professor for Applied Computer Science at the FH Bielefeld – University of Applied Science, Germany. Her research fields are applications in machine learning in the fields of photovoltaic solutions and generally in environmental Informatics.  

Dr. Hans-Knud Arndt is a full professor of Business Informatics – Management Information Systems at the Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, Germany.  His environmental informatics research focuses on meta data, sustainable reporting, sustainable design of information systems and sustainable usability/user experience.  

Maximilian Höb is a researcher at the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities and a lecturer at Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany. His research focuses on the analysis of containerized high-performance computing applications and their deployment strategies regarding resource usage and energy efficiency, including exascale-ready and data-centric containerized infrastructures.