The course aims to provide the tools, through practical activities, to carry out accounting and environmental sustainability projects and studies. Particular attention is dedicated to the application of the methodologies of emergy analysis and ecological footprint to case studies. Other tools such as the ISEW Sustainable Economic Well-Being Index will be presented. Studies already carried out within national and international projects will be presented and case studies will be treated to be developed entirely in the classroom in order to make the student independent in the application of the methodologies.
The course provides the elements to apply techniques for evaluating natural capital, functions and ecosystem services to practical cases and to evaluate the sustainability of a process through systemic ecology methodologies such as ecological footprint, emergetic analysis and ISEW.
Gli studenti a termine dell'insegnamento saranno in grado di realizzare valutazioni di contabilità o sostenibilità ambientale ed iin particolare:
Students at the end of the course will be able to carry out independently accounting or environmental sustainability assessments and in particular:
It is strongly recommended that students have attended the courses of Environmental Accounting or Natural Capital and Ecosystem Services or that they have acquired theoretical skills in environmental accounting and environmental sustainability and application of system theory methodologies. The teaching represents, in fact, a practical study for the application of environmental accounting tools and / or environmental sustainability.
Presentation of case studies for the evaluation of elements of natural capital through emergy analysis, ecological footprint or ISEW and related evaluations Presentation of case studies for the evaluation of ecosystem services through emergence analysis, ecological footprint or ISEW Ecological footprint calculator and interpretation of results Footprint accounts and detailed analysis of the Ecological Footprint calculation methodology Shared realization of one or more classroom projects, also with role simulations and conflicts resolution. The teaching content will be tailored to the skills of the class in order to maximize learning for students
CHIARA PAOLI (President)
PAOLO VASSALLO (President Substitute)
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PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS OF ENVIRONMENTAL ACCOUNTING
Presentation of a project created from scratch by the student or a revision of a project already carried out (advances and / or changes, for example of the methodology used) through the use of one or more techniques for evaluating natural capital, functions and services ecosystems or assessment of the level of sustainability learned during the course e.g. ecological footprint, emergetic analysis and ISEW.
Oral exam with presentation of the results and during which the student will have to demonstrate to have aquired the ability to interpret the results of studies obtained with emergetic analysis, ecological footprint or ISEW and / or calculate the value of an ecosystem asset, resource or service through the use of system methodologies and / or create development scenarios based on the results of a case study and / or apply alternative methodologies, compared to that used in a case study already carried out, and interpret the results by comparing them and / or develop different design hypotheses and identify the better in terms of environmental sustainability level
