Methods and Tools for Environmental Quality Assurance
(Course Code: 345KEY, Course outline)
| Semester: | 8 | Teaching Credits: | 3 | ECTS Credits: | 5 | Type: |
Compulsory |
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| Prerequisite Courses: | — | Course type: | Skills development | Instructor: | Maria Hatziantoniou | |||
– Understand the concepts of Ecological Footprint, IPAT-equation, Environmental Kuznets Curve
– Understand LCA thinking
– Learn in practice the procedures involved in LCA, in IPAT, in Ecological Footprint
– Develop skills for interpretation of the results
– Understand the strengths and limitations of the methods for evaluation of human impacts on the environment
| Topics per Week: | The course focuses on quantitative aspects and methods of evaluation of impacts of man-made production systems. Conceptual and quantitative examples are used in order to study: – the limits of the IPAT tautology. Quantitative, qualitative and methodological consequences of the core environmental paradigm. Examples of calculations of the IPAT model, mainly regarding C or pollutant emissions. – ecological footprint calculations: analysis of the concept of “footprint”. Methods and calculators of footprints. – carbon footprint: Methods and calculators – indirect impacts of energy/mass transfers in production chains/LCA. The deconstruction of processes production chains. Input-output analysis. Examples of calculations regarding energy flow/energy intensity/performance … in productive systems. |
| Theory – Lectures (hours / week): |
3 |
| Exercises – Laboratories (hours / week): |
– |
| Other Activities: | – |
| Grading: | Assignments/Projects: 60%
Written exams: 40% |
| Notes: | The presentations will be made available on the web-based platform (moodle). Recommendations for further reading are given in the course. |
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| Bibliography: | |
| Language: |
The course is taught in Greek. For exchange students, English literature is proposed and examinations are given in English |
| Internet Links: | – |
