Environmental Sustainability Tools
A project-based graduate course applying life cycle assessment to quantify environmental impacts of products and processes across multiple impact categories.
Summary
What you’ll be able to do
Define a question to answer using life cycle assessment
Determine the relevant goal and scope, and boundaries for a life cycle assessment
Determine and quantify the relevant inputs and outputs of a product system or process
Determine the most relevant functional unit for a life cycle assessment
Conduct a life cycle assessment on a product or process using appropriate software
Interpret a life cycle assessment on a product or process in order to evaluate the environmental sustainability of the system
Analyze sustainability issues and/or practices using a systems-based approach.
Describe the social, economic, and environmental dimensions of selected term project topic and identify potential trade-offs and interrelationships among these dimensions at a level appropriate to the course.
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Environmental impact must be quantified systematically and rigorously in order to inform decision making, process improvement, and policy. Life cycle assessment will be utilized in a project-based framework to evaluate the environmental impacts of products and process across multiple environmental impact categories.
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Topics
- Life cycle assessment methodology
- Systematic quantification of environmental impact
- Social, economic, and environmental sustainability dimensions
Skills
- Defining LCA questions, goals, scope, and boundaries
- Quantifying product system inputs/outputs and determining functional units
- Conducting and interpreting LCAs using software to evaluate sustainability
- Analyzing sustainability via systems-based approaches and identifying multi-dimensional trade-offs
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