Energy and Environment

能源在经济发展和人类活动中发挥着重要作用。人口增长、经济繁荣、环境恶化和气候变化将对能源系统构成重大挑战。这种能源和环境系统的管理是一项具有挑战性的任务，涉及各种复杂的社会，经济，环境，技术和政治因素。在这一更新的CRC计划的背景下，目标是为能源和环境管理开发一套创新的决策支持方法。将所提出的技术应用于加拿大的案例将有助于工业和政府提高管理复杂能源和环境问题的效率。将使用面向对象的程序设计开发便于用户使用的计算机软件，以便利数据组织、信息介绍和模型计算。

Energy plays an important role in economic development and human activities. Growing population, booming economy, deteriorating environment and changing climate are expected to exert significant challenges towards energy systems. The management of such energy and environmental systems is a challenging task, involving a variety of complex social, economic, environmental, technical, and political factors. The objective in the context of this renewed CRC Program is to develop a set of innovative decision-support methodologies for energy and environmental management. Applications of the proposed techniques to Canadian cases will help industries and governments improve their effectiveness in managing complex energy and environmental problems. User-friendly computer software will be developed using object-oriented programming, in order to facilitate data organization, information presentation and modeling computation.