SUBJECT: Life-Cycle Assessment, Governance and Sustainability
WORKLOAD: 45 class hours
PROFESSOR: Claudia Morgado
SUMMARY:
Life Cycle Assessment – LCA, Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment – LCSA. Social Protection. Human and Social Development: sustainability metrics. Economic Development: regional development metrics. Governance and public policies. Case Studies: sustainability indicators, application of LCA integrated with Geographic Information Systems – GIS.
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
- Sonnemann, Guido; Castells, F. Schuhmacher, M. “Integrated life-cycle and risk assessment for industrial processes: Advanced Methods in Resource and Waste Management: Florida: CRCPressLLC, 2003. 392p.
- Hendrickson, CT; Wash; LB and Matthews, HS “Environmental Life Cycle Assessment of Goods and Services: an input-output approach”. Washington, RFF Press Book, 2006. 262p.
- Van Den Bergh, J. and Janssen, M.A. “Economics of Industrial Ecology: Materials, Structural Change, and Spatial Scales.” Cambridge: MIT Press, 2004. 381p.
- Winter, Gerd “Multilevel Governance of Global Environmental Change: perspectives from science, sociology and the law. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. 630 p.
- Rosser, J. Barkley “Complex Evolutionary Dynamics in Urban-Regional and Ecologic-Economic Systems: from Catastrophe to Chaos and Beyond.” New York: Springer, 2011.