Design, measurement and modelling in spatio-temporal analysis

在目前的条件下，最近预测到2100年，世界人口将继续增长到150亿，这导致人们对环境风险水平上升的担忧日益加剧。预计还会发生更多事件，例如高温事件和煤炭等化石燃料消费的增加。这一黑暗的未来预示着越来越需要有效地监测空间和时间上的环境过程，以及在空间和未来无法监测的情况下预测这些过程的准确方法，以支持通过有效的政策和监管来管理和缓解这些风险。在这个未来，统计学家将发挥重要作用，特别是在量化充斥着不确定性的方面。

The burgeoning World population, newly predicted under present conditions to continue growing to as much as 15billion by the year 2100, is leading to increasing concerns about elevated levels of environment risk. More incidents e.g. high temperature episodes and the increased consumption of fossil fuels e.g. coal are expected. This dark future portends an increased need to effectively monitor environmental processes over space and time along with accurate methods for predicting these processes where they cannot be monitored in space and in the future, to support the management and mitigation of these risks through effective policy and regulation. Statisticians have a major role to play in this future, particularly in quantifying the uncertainties that abound.