Overordnede kursusmål
Course objectives are structured as:
• Knowledge to be developed: assessing and evaluating health and
environmental impacts in a life cycle perspective from local to
global scale, thorough understanding of assessment principles,
mathematical modeling steps and hands-on exercises with available
models and data, and real-life cases
• Skills/competences to be developed: Identification, application
and interpretation of results of assessment methods and tools for
quantifying environmental, health and life cycle impacts associated
with chemical emissions and resources consumption, incl.
limitations, assumptions and uncertainty
• Presumed knowledge: Fundamentals in mathematical modeling and
environmental chemistry is required. Additional knowledge in life
cycle (impact) assessment and/or risk assessment and/or policy
analysis is helpful, but not required
• Required expertise in follow-up education (as engineers):
Identify and apply approaches for evaluating chemical pollution
problems in different contexts
Læringsmål
En studerende, der fuldt ud har opfyldt kursets mål, vil kunne:
- Describe and analyze complex real-life impact assessment and
chemical substitution problems
- Explain principles and modeling approaches of different impact
assessment methods
- Apply impact assessment methods to questions from life cycle
assessment, risk screening, product design and sustainability
assessment
- Apply models to quantify environmental and health impacts of
chemical emissions and chemicals in products
- Characterize human exposure and quantify health impacts based
on existing data and assessment models
- Evaluate the relevance of different impact categories and
develop priority lists of chemicals
- Evaluate strengths and limitations of quantitative impact
assessment methods and determine and justify uncertainties
- Identify and answer research questions from different chemical
and environmental management fields
- Design and develop impact pathways that are aligned with
current impact quantification methods
- Communicate model results consistently and structured in oral
and written form
Kursusindhold
The course will be divided into three main sections: (i) overview,
understanding and modeling steps of different impact assessment
methods; (ii) principles, analysis and development of impact
pathways and quantification of environmental fate, exposure and
effects; (e) rank and recommend best-in-class solutions based on
quantified impacts and communicating results in a consistent,
reliable and transparent way to decision makers and stakeholders
Litteraturhenvisninger
- Hauschild & Huijbregts 2015. Life Cycle Impact Assessment.
http://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9744-3
- Fantke et al. 2015. From incremental to fundamental substitution
in chemical alternatives assessment.
http://doi.org/10.1016/j.scp.2015.08.001
- Fantke & Ernstoff 2018. LCA of chemicals and chemical
products.
http://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56475-3_31Sidst opdateret
21. april, 2021
