Overordnede kursusmål
• Gained core competences: Develop your own impact pathway from
source to damage on human health, ecosystem quality and natural
resources
• Gained knowledge: Methods and data to assess and evaluate health
and environmental impacts in a life cycle perspective from local to
global scale, thorough understanding of assessment principles,
mathematical modeling steps, working with available models and data
• Gained skills: Identify, apply and interpret results of
assessment methods and tools for quantifying environmental, health
and life cycle impacts associated with emissions and resources
consumption, incl. limitations, assumptions and uncertainty
• Presumed knowledge: Fundamentals in mathematical modeling and
environmental chemistry; knowledge in life cycle (impact)
assessment and/or risk assessment and/or policy analysis is helpful
• 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, alternatives assessment, product design and
sustainability assessment
- Apply models to quantify environmental and health impacts, e.g.
of chemical emissions and chemicals in products
- Characterize impacts based on existing data and assessment
models
- Evaluate strengths and limitations of quantitative impact
assessment methods and determine and justify uncertainties
- Identify and answer research questions from different
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 consists of 3 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/10.1007/978-94-017-9744-3Sidst opdateret
14. juni, 2024
