Binding Environmental Sciences and Artificial Intelligence on ECAI’98
Ulises Cortés, Miquel Sànchez–Marrè, I. R dash, Roda, David Riaño · AI Communications · 1999
1. PreambleContinuously evolving economic, social and cul-tural pressures on natural resources, including exces-sive uses and pollution, are causing threats which areincreasing the dangers to the state of the earth, due,aboveall to overpopulation,increasingof industrial ac-tivities and global consumption, and increasingly dan-gerous types of waste on land, air and water. Societyis trying to balance the production of goods with theproper conservation of environment. This task proofsnot only to be hard from the technical and economicalpoint of view but also creates controversy.Artificial Intelligence has been widely and success-fully applied to environmental management problemsas for example in using expert systems advising emer-gencyresponseteams about how to deal with industrial