Environmental Engineering Reference
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The resilience indicator is composed of sub-indicators. In the same way
the environmental, technological and social resilience element could be
obtained, as follows. Under assumption that the sudden indicator change
resumes starting state is linear function of time, than we can write
1
2
R
w
q
t
(7)
j
i
i
If it is assumed that the time interval for resuming starting state is equal for all
indicators than the Resilience Index for the individual case is
t
R
w
q
0
(8)
2
j
i
i
The total Resilience Index is an additive function of all resilience Indicators as
follows
R
R
R
R
R
(9)
tot
e
en
t
s
In the evaluation of global warming processes following indicators are taken
into a consideration.
Thermal process will be described with global surface temperature which
is considered as essential parameter
for the description of the global heat
transfer process between sun and global surface. In t
he assessment of the
resilience reflecting thermal process the global surface temperature is used as
the
characteristic
parameter
which
define
respective
Global
Warming
Resilience Index component.
Global environment processes are including the emission of green house
gases to the global atmosphere resulting from anthropological man activity on
the earth. In simplification of these processes we will assume that only CO
2
gas is taken into a consideration. The Global Warming Resilience Index
environment component is defined as the CO
2
emission flux.
Social processes on the earth are reflecting change in the social welfare on
the planet It is assumed that the social commodity is the measuring parameter
