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Absolute environmental sustainability assessment of production and consumption in a systems perspectiveTechnical University of DenmarkGeneral course objectives: There is an increasing interest in understanding environmental impacts from a system perspective and in assessing impacts of individual countries, organizations, etc., in the context of global sustainability limits and goals. This enables an understanding of what it takes for countries, organizations, etc., to be considered sustainable in an absolute sense and not just “less unsustainable” than something else. This course introduces the concept of absolute sustainability assessment, gives important examples of its application to countries, companies and consumption patterns, and enables the participants to carry out absolute assessments in practice. The course has a special focus on incorporating case studies from the PhD projects of the participants, thereby enabling them to incorporate absolute sustainability assessment in their PhD project. Learning objectives: A student who has met the objectives of the course will be able to:
Contents: • Prior to course start: self-study of reading material. • Lectures on theoretical aspects of absolute sustainability assessment. • Group work applying absolute sustainability assessment in practice on exercises and the students´ own case studies. • One week after end of class: hand in of poster that shows your achievement of the learning objectives with a specific focus on the potential application of absolute sustainability assessment to your PhD project, followed by feedback from instructors. |
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