Life Cycle Assessment

Methods and tools for assessment of environmental sustainability (including life cycle analysis)

Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) according to ISO 14040

Characterisation, Classification and Normalisation

Re-use and recycling

Attributional and consequential LCA

Use of tools as SimaPro

Overview of research on sustainability

After completing the course, the student is supposed toKnowledge

be able to define, execute and select methods and tools to assess sustainability performance of various concepts .

knowledge of environmental indicators and their background

Skills

ability to use appropriate evaluation or assessment methods to identify and analyze the sustainability performance of concepts

ability to define and describe the object of assessment for different situations and systems

ability to utilize and evaluate results from Life Cycle Assessment tools

General competence

ability to evaluate scientific ethical implications

understanding of sustainability performance in general

Forelesninger|Gruppearbeid|Veiledning

Utfyllende informasjon:

The course will be made accessible for both campus- and remote students. Every student is free to choose the pedagogic arrangement from that is best fitted for her/his own requirement.?Seminars in the course will be given on campus and are open for both categories of students through web conferencing systems (Eluminate, Adobe Connect etc). Recordings of seminars and tutoring sessions will be available on internet through GUC¿s learning management system (Fronter).

Obligatoriske arbeidskrav:

Two hand-ins/assignments must be approved

Mandatory presence on seminars

The standard language is English. All hand-ins, exams etc. must be written in English.