D. R. Khanna

Environmental-informatics---A Solution for Long Term Environmental Research

During recent decades the stirring up of the processes of globalization practically in all spheres of present day civilization has aggravated and brought forth numerous problems resulting from nature-society interactions. To overcome these problems, it is necessary to develop and adopt new concepts and techniques to evaluate the changes occurring on the earth ecosystem. For this, application of information technology is the best option. Various applications of information technologies are providing the ways to understand the environmental complexity across the entire range of scales. Understanding this complexity through applications will develop new strategies and ideas to manage ecosystem. This paper deals with one such field, i.e. environmental-informatics- new approach to process, analysis and synthesis of environmental systems using various models and IT applications.