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ITS3.7/NP8.5 | Complexity in urban geoscience: going beyond storytelling
EDI
Complexity in urban geoscience: going beyond storytelling
AGU and AOGS
Convener: Daniel Schertzer | Co-conveners: Klaus Fraedrich, Andrea ReimuthECSECS, Yohei Sawada, Danlu Cai
In line with previous EGU sessions and major debates on urban geosciences, this transdisciplinary session welcomes studies that deal with complexity in urban geosciences on the basis of data and/or theories, either at the methodological level or at the level of original applications.
While complexity is too often confused with the complicated or the difficult, -it has fairly precise definitions such as "a system comprised of a great number of heterogeneous entities, among which local interactions create multiple levels of collective structure and organization....".
As analyses and simulations become accessible, as soon as appropriate tools are developed and used to analyse complexity in urban geosciences, this session welcomes concepts, methodologies and disruptive models to overcome current scientific bottlenecks, to better deal with non-linearities, multi-component systems, stochastic synchronisation, tipping points and elements, and extremes over a wide range of scales in geophysical and urban systems, as well as their interactions in human-environment system.