Course information
EP8108 Life Cycle Assessment and Environmental Systems Analysis
EP8108 Life Cycle Assessment and Environmental Systems Analysis
Aim
To understand the strengths, limitations and potential pitfalls of Life-Cycle Assessment (LCA) methods. The course provides state-of-the-art insights in both inventory modeling and impact assessment. The core of the course addresses the modeling of product systems and larger production-consumption networks. For the inventory modeling, it includes recent advances related to the adaptation of input-output techniques and data, allocation issues, attributional and consequential LCA, and the treatment of recycling.
The impact assessment covers new insights in impact category and damage-oriented approaches. The importance of spatial differentiation is also discussed by using the spatially differentiated, global impact assessment method LC-IMPACT as an example. Finally, providing insight in how to treat different types of uncertainties in LCA is part of the course.
Required prerequisite knowledge
The course requires basic knowledge of linear algebra. This is generally documented through an MSc in engineering, applied science or economics. Basic knowledge of LCA at the level of Baumann and Tilman 2004, A Hitch Hiker's Guide to LCA .
Research training activities
Course reading of important papers to be completed before the session. Lectures, practical training exercises (in MATLAB and Excel) and discussion of the scientific papers are part of the research training.
Course Instructors
Contact secretariat:
Contact secretariat:
Maren Lundhaug
NTNU - Industrial Ecology Programme
Sem Sælands vei 7
NO-7491 Trondheim
Phone: + 47 73 59 38 60
E-mail: psie@indecol.ntnu.no
For questions regarding the PSIE summer school 2018, please contact Dr. Rosalie van Zelm