Short Course Description
This course will expose the students to theory and practical application methods related to environmental considerations and measuring environmental impacts in R&D, production and consumption systems. During the course we will discuss selected topics that affect everyday life and examine whether and how environmental issues can be considered and integrated into the planning and decision-making system.
The course will include both theoretical and practical aspects. During the theoretical part of the course we will learn about the different dimensions related to the Sustainable Development Goals, environmental impacts, use of natural resources, production and consumption systems, and quantitative measurement methods. We will look at these challenges in life cycle perspective from development, design and planning through raw material mining and manufacturing, to consumption and end of life. Alongside lectures the students will be presented with a challenge related to the UN Sustainable Development Goals and will be working on solutions and new ideas to solve the challenge presented.
The main goal of the course is to train students to take into account integrated environmental - socio-economic principles, in the process of developing ideas and solutions to challenges, and to be able to apply these considerations in a variety of professional and personal issues in daily life.
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