Research theme
AI, Nature and Environmental Risk
The environmental footprint of AI infrastructure, and the measurement of nature-related financial risk that supervisors are beginning to ask about.
Key research areas
- Where to site data centres: greenfield land against brownfield
- Brownfield sites that themselves carry biodiversity value
- Remote sensing and digital monitoring of ecological change
- Making biodiversity risk measurable and environmental outcomes verifiable
- Regional governance and the implementation of biodiversity policy
Submit on this theme
Extended abstracts on AI, Nature and Environmental Risk are welcome until 1 October 2026. Two to four pages excluding references, PDF, by email to joerg.osterrieder@utwente.nl.