With the rapid growth of population and increased life expectancy, urbanization has emerged as a new trend of living. Along with global warming, urbanization is on one hand the cause of many serious impacts, including energy shortage, infrastructure deterioration, environmental problems and associated health risks. On the other hand, opportunities also arise from major scientific and technological advances, economic changes and ecological protection measures. The evolution of smart cities, enabled by digital technologies, is set to be one of global developments for the future with enormous potential for addressing sustainable needs of civilization and population health.
The translation of advances in digital technologies into real-world, actionable, and personalized services to benefit the general community has become a central focus of many research endeavors in as well as outside Vietnam. For this vision, studies to implement digital intelligence in urban development are being focused on such priority areas as energy generation from renewable sources; building management and resilience enhancement of infrastructure; as well as water management, air quality monitoring, and environmental health. To further critical research in these areas, current international scientific and technological communities have identified priorities in innovations and applications of artificial intelligence (AI), low emission and sustainability technologies.
EIER 2023 is the fourth meeting of an annual workshop series, designed to promote inter-disciplinary and international collaboration in such research activities. The first three meetings of this series, EIER 2020 EIER 2021, and EIER 2022 drew scholars from Australia, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Sweden, Taiwan, the Netherlands, United States, and Vietnam. They also provided a forum for young researchers who were eagerly looking for valuable feedback on their work and networking opportunities. We hope to continue building on that success to make EIER 2023 a venue for stimulating discussion and fruitful exchange of ideas, both scientific and practical.
To achieve resilient environments and the best outcomes of sustainability, there exists the need of linking development and conservation with the goal to find an appropriate balance between conservation and development. The theme of this workshop “Development versus Conservation: Sustainability and Heritage” emphasizes that this tradeoff between development and conservation must become the key concern for most participating stakeholders for any development plan, whereby sustainability and heritage should remain the core values to be considered.
The EIER 2023 workshop’s specific objectives are:
- to raise awareness of, and to nourish high quality research in problems of direct relevance to the importance of sustainability and heritage in all pathways for development.
- to foster collaboration between national and international scholars; and
- to further research engagement with responsible stakeholders towards feasible solutions to the burning issues in energy, infrastructure and environment.
Along with the post-Covid recovery of many other activities and functions, this event will be held on the scenic campus of Quy Nhon University in the coastal Central Region of Vietnam. A workshop link is also available for online attendants. The organizing committee welcomes participation of academics of different disciplines, as well as government agencies, industries, and general public. We trust you will find this workshop inspiring and look forward to seeing you at EIER 2023 in Quy Nhon.