Overordnede kursusmål
• Gained core competences: Develop your own impact pathway from
source to damage on human health, ecosystem quality and natural
resources for a topic of your choice
• Gained knowledge: Methods and data to assess and evaluate health
and environmental impacts from local to global scale, thorough
understanding of assessment principles, mathematical modeling
steps, and working with available or missing 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 environmental problems
in different decision 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 or plastic emissions
- 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 of
different stressors; (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/10.1007/978-94-017-9744-3Bemærkninger
Develop methods to quantify impacts on human health, ecosystems and
resources for use in life cycle assessment (LCA) - chemical
substitution - safe and sustainable-by-design (SSbD) | includes
company visits (e.g. Novo Nordisk)
Sidst opdateret
13. december, 2024
