Industrial Ecology, Advanced Course

The course covers advanced theory and methodology in industrial ecology exemplified for selected topics (e.g., climate change mitigation, resource and waste management/recycling, criticality of minerals, eutrophication, urban development, infrastructure management). The topics are analyzed using a variety of industrial ecology tools, including MFA, LCA, EE-IO, or CBA. The topics are related to ongoing research projects, and are announced at the beginning of the semester.

Knowledge:
The students will be able to formulate the key problems related to the selected topic, to describe the state of the art tools used to analyze the problems, and to test the consequences of alternative interventions for solving or mitigating the problems.

Skills: The students will acquire the knowledge and skills necessary to select appropriate system boundaries to answer specific questions related to a problem, and to critically reflect on the approaches used in literature resources.

General competence: The students will be able to conduct a literature research using online databases and the NTNU library system, to work effectively in a team, and to communicate their findings in an effective and transparent way in oral (presentation) and written form (scientific report).

Lectures by teachers and external experts, guided self study (individual and in group), seminars, ev. participation in workshop with industry and government representatives. Course language is English.