Sustainability Assessment & Resource Management

Introduction & in-depth study

The participants:
• describe key concepts of sustainability assessment and explain basic sustainability indicators.
• analyze ecological, social and economic assessment criteria and apply basic sustainability methods to simple case examples.
• create basic life cycle assessments or eco-balances and interpret their results.
• examine material and resource flows and evaluate resource use against defined sustainability benchmarks.
• use common sustainability assessment tools such as the ecological footprint, multi-criteria assessment or basic ESG evaluations and derive recommendations for sustainable resource management from them.

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- Sustainability assessment, including basic concepts, indicators and evaluation logics
- Ecological, social and economic assessment methods, with analysis of the fundamental sustainability dimensions
- Life cycle assessment and eco-balancing, including the creation of simple life cycle analyzes and the evaluation of selected scenarios
- Material and resource management, including basic material and energy flows and sustainable resource criteria
- Resource strategies in energy and sustainability management, including approaches for resource-efficient consumption and sustainable prioritisation
- Sustainability assessment tools such as the ecological footprint, multi-criteria assessment and basic ESG evaluations

- Çalıyurt, K. T. (Ed.). (2022). New Approaches to CSR, Sustainability and Accountability, Volume III. Springer Nature Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-9364-9
- Dathe, T., Dathe, R., Dathe, I., & Helmold, M. (2022). Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Sustainability and Environmental Social Governance (ESG): Approaches to Ethical Management. Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-92357-0
- Kandpal, V., Jaswal, A., Santibanez Gonzalez, E. D. R., & Agarwal, N. (2024). Sustainable Energy Transition: Circular Economy and Sustainable Financing for Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Practices. Springer Nature Switzerland. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-52943-6
- Klos, Z. S., Kalkowska, J., & Kasprzak, J. (Eds.). (2022). Towards a Sustainable Future - Life Cycle Management: Challenges and Prospects. Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-77127-0
- Sonnemann, G., & Margni, M. (Eds.). (2015). Life Cycle Management. Springer Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-7221-1
- Touriki, F. E., Belhadi, A., Kamble, S., & Benkhati, I. (2022). Sustainable Excellence in Small and Medium Sized Enterprises: Continuous Improvement Approaches that Matter. Springer Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-0371-7
- Zipse, O., Hornegger, J., Becker, T., Beckmann, M., Bengsch, M., Feige, I., & Schober, M. (Eds.). (2023). Road to Net Zero: Strategic Pathways for Sustainability-Driven Business Transformation. Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-42224-9

Portfolio assessment

English

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Lectures, discussions, exercises, case studies, group work

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