Computational Analytics for Supporting Environmental Decision-Making and Analysis: An Introduction

Abstract

In practice, environmental informatics involves a com-bination of computers, computation, mathematical modelling, and system science to address real-world environmental pro-blems. This special issue includes a number of applied computational analytics papers that either create new methods or provide innovative applications of existing methods for assis-ting with environmental decision-making applications using informatics. In line with the aims and scope of the special issue, the diversity of applications in the papers highlights a wide spectrum of both practical relevance and methodological contributions to research in environmental decision-making and analysis. The contributions contained in this issue all demon-strate novel approaches of computational analytics as applied to environmental decision-making – be this on the side of modelling, computational solution procedures, visual analytics, and/or technologies. to ,