Analysis of the physical systems that sustain modern societies — including water, food, energy, biodiversity, and urban infrastructure. These articles explore how ecological limits and infrastructure design shape long-term resilience and sustainability.
This article examines the environmental cost of data centers and the infrastructure supporting artificial intelligence and cloud computing, including energy consumption, water use, and the sustainability challenges of the digital economy.
FPGA environmental monitoring enables real-time sensing and control for smart agriculture. This article explores how reconfigurable hardware can process environmental data at the edge to support more adaptive and resilient farming systems.
Wide-area IoT protocols such as LoRaWAN, NB-IoT, and LTE-M enable resilient communication networks for disaster recovery in remote regions, supporting environmental monitoring, early warning systems, and situational awareness when conventional infrastructure fails.
Precision farming uses IoT sensors, connected devices, and agricultural drones to transform fields into data-driven systems, helping farmers monitor soil conditions, irrigation needs, and crop health in real time.
Urban farming infrastructure reframes local food production as a systems challenge. This article explores how distributed food systems can improve resilience in cities facing climate volatility, supply chain disruption, and growing population pressures.
Research suggests coastal flood risk may be underestimated because many hazard models rely on simplified sea level assumptions rather than direct coastal measurements, raising questions about how accurately communities are assessing flood exposure.
As freshwater scarcity increases, many cities rely on desalination plants for drinking water. This article examines how these facilities are becoming critical—and vulnerable—pieces of global water infrastructure.
The fishing cat depends on wetlands that are disappearing across Asia. Its decline reveals how wetland loss threatens biodiversity while undermining the ecological systems that protect both wildlife and human communities.
Freshwater is renewable, but only within hydrological limits. This article explores how water scarcity may become one of the defining constraints on economic development, energy systems, agriculture, and long-term environmental stability.
