Environmental System Analysis

ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEM ANALYSIS

Course Outline

Environmental systems analysis (ESA) comprises the collection, analysis, integration and evaluation of information on how technical systems cause, contribute to, or mitigate environmental impacts. It is used to support decision making in many different areas like the industrial and public sectors, and government.

The lectures are designed to supply a framework that makes it possible to fully understand what environmental systems analysis is. They are also intended to

Introduce a number of tools and methods
Provide the knowledge required to choose a relevant tool or method, and formulate the goal and scope for a specific application
Lay the theoretical foundation for the tools and methods that are further explored by doing the exercises and the course project
Apply an ESA tool (or ESA tools) to a given problem. The course also introduces and defines a set of concepts needed for a good understanding of environmental systems analysis