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Center for Energy, Environmental, and Economic Systems Analysis (CEEESA) |  |
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Research Areas:
Energy, Environment, and
Economics
National and Homeland
Security
Infrastructure Assurance
Emergency Preparedness
Social Dynamics
Policy Analysis
Core Capabilities:
Systems Analysis
Modeling, Simulation, and
Visualization
Complex Adaptive Systems
Decision Support and Risk
Management
Information Sciences
Energy, Environment, and Economics
With extensive expertise in engineering and social sciences, Argonne National Laboratory continues to play a lead role in solving problems related to energy, environment, and economics, both regionally and internationally. Innovative Argonne-developed methodologies, systems, technologies, and analytical tools have proven extremely useful for analysis of energy, environmental, and economic systems, facilitating credible, defensible decisions regarding large-scale deployment. For more information, contact: |
Energy use and supply are fundamentally important to society. With the possible exceptions of agriculture and forestry, the use of energy has had a greater impact on the environment than any other human activity—a result of the large scale and pervasive nature of energy-related activities. Although energy and environmental concerns were originally local in character—for example, health and safety issues associated with extraction, transport, or noxious emissions—they have now broadened in scope to cover regional and global issues, such as security, acid rain and the greenhouse effect. The economics of energy use and the cost of environmental control have become major political issues and the subject of extensive national and international debate and regulation.