Prospective Environmental Assessments

This lecture deals with prospective assessments of emerging technologies as well as with the assessment of long-term environmental impact caused by today's activities.

Goals

Understanding prospective environmental assessments, including scenario analysis techniques, prospective emission models, dynamic MFA and LCA.
Ability to properly plan and conduct prospective environmental assessment studies, for example on emerging technologies or on technical processes that cause long-term environmental impacts.
Being aware of the uncertainties involved in prospective studies.
Getting to know measures to prevent long-term emissions or impact in case studies
Knowing the arguments in favor and against a temporally differentiated weighting of environmental impacts (discounting)

Content

Scenario analysis
Dynamic material flow analysis
Temporal differentiation in LCA
Systems dynamics tools
Agent based models
Assessment of future and present environmental impact
Case studies

General Information

Lecturers: Stefanie Hellweg, Andy Spoerri, Niko Heeren
Language: English
ECTS: 3
Assistance: Sandro Lorenz
Lecture: Tuesday, 15:45-17:30, Room: refer to VVZ
Course material: will be provided on Moodle