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Introducing
the field
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Sustainable
development
(key issues, commons, sustainability requirements, master
equation, grand objectives)
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Humanity
and the environment
(material use intensity, materials complexity,
linking industrial activity and
environmental and social sciences)
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Defining
Industrial Ecology
(scope of IE, key questions)
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Technology
and economic growth
(technology life-cycle, industrial revolution)
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Risk
analysis
(perception of risk, risk assessment, risk communication, risk
management)
Physical,
biological and societal framework
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Biological
ecology vs. Industrial Ecology
(food chain, metabolism, population ecology)
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System
models,
open and closed systems, types of ecosystems
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Status of resources
(classes of abundance, hitchhiker resources, energetically,
geographically and environmentally limited resources)
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Cultural
construct of IE
(National governmental structures and actions, international
governance, environmental policies)
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Fundamental
legal issues
(intra- and intergenerational equity, regulatory management
structure, decentralized mechanism vs. command-and-control,
consumer protection)
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Economics and IE
(measures of valuation, discount rates, benefit-costs analyses,
green accounting, externalities, substitutability vs.
complementarity, capital and investment)
Corporate Industrial Ecology
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Implementing IE in industry
(major goals and principles, managing IE in the corporation,
triple bottom line)
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Dematerialisation
(measuring material use intensity, eco-efficiency, MIPS,
miniaturization, Factor X, sufficiency)
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Services
(types, examples, IE of service firms)
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Decarbonisation
(non-carbon energy resources: geothermal, solar, wind; trends
for future, state of the art of technologies)
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Environmental
management systems
(Principles of ISO 14001, implementation, documentation, ISO
14001and IE principles, legislative constraints, impact on
supply chain management)
Tools
of Industrial Ecology
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Life-Cycle
Assessment
(theory, SETAC structure, data; use, benefits, limitations,
example: paper industry)
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Design for the Environment
(Design for X, benefits of ecodesign; Desing for: energy
efficiency, disassembly, recycling, remanufacturing; Example:
electronics, RoHS/WEEE; eco-effectiveness, cradle-to-cradle
design, eco-compass)
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Green Chemistry and Engineering
(sustainable production and products, process design, process
intensification, microreactors, biorefinery, catalysis for GC&E,
environmental catalysis, catalysis for esp. GHG reduction)
Systems-level
Industrial Ecology
• Industrial
Ecosystems
(industrial symbiosis, ecoparks, types, examples: Kalundborg in DK,
Londonderry in USA, ecofarming in Fiji, Rantasalmi and Harjavalta in
Finland; principles and process of by-product synergy, tool kits)
• Metabolic
and resource analyses
(material flow analysis, total material requirement, material flow
accounting, material and waste flow analysis of Finland)
• Earth
system engineering
(CO2
problem,
storage, recovery, utilization, chemical recycling)
Course lectured in English.
Lecturers:
Doc. Eva Pongrácz, Prof. Riitta Keiski, Dr. Jyrki Heino and
external experts |
