First principle of rational decision making on water quality management

🎤Speaker🎤
Dr Jiping Jiang
Associate Research Professor,
Vice Director of Shenzhen Lab of EnvIOTs
Southern University of Science and Technology

💡Abstract💡
Rational decision making is essential in environment management including resource allocation, impact assessment, long-term planning, and risk management, where models and data analysis techniques always used. The nature of decision-making is to divide the decision-making problem into several criteria and evaluate them based on the information obtained, and choose the decision strategy with the best comprehensive performance. From first principle thinking, we can summarize the basic rules of rational decision making of environmental management, such as Maximum efficiency, Lowest energy, Most robust status, etc. Focusing on water quality management on nature and engineered water bodies, this talk attempts to present a holistic framework of first principles providing source power of decision making and design. It will highlight the rule of system complexity, measured with entropy index. A framework of entropy index and roadmap of applications will be present and discussed with practical cases. Straightforward cost-effective analysis based cases will also be discussed. The talk leave some open questions for future studies.

✨About Dr Jiping Jiang✨
Dr Jiping Jiang is an associate research professor and the deputy director of Shenzhen Municipal Engineering Lab of Environmental IoTs, Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), China. He is also a Senior Drainage Engineer and server as a board member of Shenzhen Municipal Application Management Committee. His research interests mainly focus on Environmental Hydroinformatics, severing for smart management, control and governance on the water quality of surface water and urban water system.