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Short courses (8 June)
On Tuesday 8 June 2010, a range of half-day short courses are scheduled prior to the opening
of the conference. Registration is open to all participants of the Third Eco-Efficiency Conference.
Organization
If you want to organise a short course, we will provide a room with equipment.
You will receive a fixed cost allowance, provided there is a minimum of 5
participants. If there are less participants, the workshop will be canceled by the
conference organisation.
Deadline of submission: 6 April 2010
Participation
If you are attending one of the short courses, a fee of € 100 is charged, to be paid at the conference before joining the course. All (registered) participants will receive an email with more information.
Short courses on the programme
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| Short Course 1 |
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| Title: |
Environmentally extended input-output analysis (EIOA) |
| Teacher: |
Reinout Heijungs, CML, Leiden University |
| Duration: |
½ day |
Description:
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Environmentally extended input-output analysis (EIOA) is a tool for the economy-wide analysis of the environmental repercussions of products and services. After its introduction in the 70s, its use declined in favour of the upcoming environmental life cycle assessment (LCA), but in the last decade, it has been revived. Sometimes, this assumes the form of replacing LCA, sometimes of complementing it (e.g. for estimating missing data in LCA), but the two are also sometimes used in an integrated form (known as hybrid analysis). This course will explain the basics of EIOA, contrast it with LCA, discuss some main fields of application of EIOA, and show how the strengths of EIOA and LCA can be combined. Also the use of EIOA for supporting MFA is discussed. |
| Teaching method: |
lectures and computer exercises |
| Requirements: |
own laptop with Windows and Office |
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| Short Course 2 |
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| Title: |
Innovative resources management methodology and tool |
| Teacher: |
Clara Ceppa, Politecnico di Torino |
| Duration: |
½ day |
Description:
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Current production processes do not fully exploit natural resources and discard a significant percentage and the growing mass of waste generated by industrial activities is becoming increasing critical as much as it causes serious damage to human health and the environment. So we should do more with what the Earth produces, and adopt a sustainable resources management. The goal of this course is to show to the researcher and the producers the possibility of new business by adopting a systemic reuse of waste. To do that during the course, the participants will use a new software that can help companies to organize themselves into "ecological networks" to achieve production that moves towards zero emissions by means of sustainable management and the valorization of waste. It’s an instrument for making the changes needed on the level of the management, organization and procurement of energy and resources. Thanks to the tool the participants can understand that new links can be created between various companies on a regional level and ultimately on a international level. I will propose some example about agro-food sector, packaging supply chain and materials and green supply-chain: from waste we could obtain new products and also new industrial process, such as quail eggs from cattle breeding or plate from palm leaves. |
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lectures and practical exercises |
| Requirements: |
own laptop with Windows, Office and internet connection |
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| Short Course 3 |
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| Title: |
Introduction to Material Flow Cost Accounting (MFCA) |
| Teacher: |
Martina Prox, ifu Hamburg - material flows and software |
| Duration: |
½ day |
Description:
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This short course gives an introduction to Material Flow Cost Accounting and its applications and benefits for the improvement of material and eco-efficiency in production systems. The basic MFCA methodology will be explained, its links to Eco-efficiency Analyses, to Life Cycle Assessment and environmental Life Cycle Costing will be clarified and an example will be used to show the benefits of MFCA in business decision making toward a more efficient use of resources. The participants will also learn about the usefulness of Sankey Diagrams for the visualisation of efficiency in production systems. |
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lectures and computer exercises |
| Requirements: |
own laptop with Windows XP or higher |
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| Short Course 4 |
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| Title: |
Economic Degrowth for Ecology and Social justice |
| Teacher: |
Francois Schneider, Research & Degrowth, ICTA, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain |
| Duration: |
½ day |
Description:
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The course consists of a general presentation of the idea of Economic Degrowth for Ecology and Social justice, followed by a participatory and interactive process of innovation within this paradigm. It will involve sessions in small groups, reports to assembly, interaction between groups and evaluation of different « hot proposals ». Depending on the number of participants, these could include new monetary systems favoring exchanges on local level, regulation of financial systems; Work sharing and redefinition of work; degrowth of infrastructure capacity (case on road capacity, airports, shipping); Adverts-free medias, support to citizen-led information; Commitments to reduce extraction, biological and mineral sanctuaries, reduction of extractive tools and sites, north/south deals to leave resources in the ground; Reusing empty houses and co-housing, reuse and mutualization of goods in general; Citizen’s unconditional income, social security for all and ceiling to income.
A more detailed description of the course can be downloaded here.
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Introductory lecture, working groups and assembly |
| Requirements: |
own laptop not required, but useful for taking notes |
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