Course - Industrial Ecology and Input Output Analysis - EP8119
Industrial Ecology and Input Output Analysis
About
About the course
Course content
This course bulids on the masterlevel course TEP4222 Input-Output analysis, trade and environment.
Environmental input-output analysis is becoming increasingly important to assess our production and consumption practices. The objective of this course is to provide insight into advanced input-output based approaches and applications within the field of industrial ecology.
The course will be given in a series of six seminars. Each seminar going through a set of journal articles on a specific topic or methodology. The seminars will address classical approaches as the Leontiefs augmented model as well as recent state-of-the-art methods like the Waste-Input-Output Framework and the World Trade Model.
Learning outcome
An understanding of production systems and international value chains is increasingly important for industry and policy makers alike. This course covers national economic and environmental accounts, economic input-output analysis, the economic modeling of production technologies and the development of scenarios using input-output models, as well as trade. The course includes an introduction to Matlab.
Learning methods and activities
The course consists of six compulsory seminars and one compulsory hand in. The course reading is mandatory. The seminars are held in English. For coninuation exam, the exam may be changed to an oral exam.
Recommended previous knowledge
This course requires a master level course on input-output analysis. TEP 4222 or similar.
Course materials
To be announced
Subject areas
- Energy and Process Engineering
- Industrial Ecology
- Industrial Economics