CIRCULAR ECONOMY E STRUMENTI DI MANAGEMENT AMBIENTALE
Academic Year 2023/2024 - Teacher: AGATA MATARAZZOExpected Learning Outcomes
Alongside the indispensable theoretical knowledge, duly formalized, the course also intends to offer adequate professional skills, both to deepen the topics covered from an operational point of view, and to complete the learning process, in order to also provide the knowledge required to apply the methods and techniques studied (know how to evaluate, compare, decide, act) appropriately in the world of work. To achieve these goals, appropriate equipment and teaching methods are also used during lectures, such as slides and case studies in public and private companies, product and services, etc.
Assessment is not only concentrated in the final phase of the course, during the oral examinations but during the entire teaching program a careful and continuous check of the understanding and the effective acquisition by students of the knowledge gradually transferred will be made, stimulating a fruitful and active participation.
Course Structure
The whole teaching process is directed at combining teaching methods that aim at developing both the students’ inductive skills as well as the students’ logical-deductive process
The testing of this learning does not include only final exams organised with oral exams, but also a careful and continual assessment of understanding throughout the whole learning process, stimulating a fruitful and active participation of all the students.
Required Prerequisites
Attendance of Lessons
Detailed Course Content
I MODULE
Description of the programme. Module title: Main environmental impacts.
The evolution of environmental pollution concept from the chemical and economic point of view; air pollutants*, which include SOx, CO2, NO2, PM10; the quality of water resources, COD and BOD indices, eutrophication of waters; definition of waste; waste management techniques, including incineration, pyrolysis and landfills; soil pollution from agricultural causes; combustion; traditional energy sources; renewable energy sources, including wind, photovoltaic, biomass, hydroelectric power; the major conferences on the subject of pollution, from Kyoto to Paris; definition of circular economy; definition of industrial symbiosis; presentation of case studies applied to Sicilian companies.
Partial credits awarded : 3 CFU
II MODULE
Description of the programme. Module title: Sustainable Technologies
definition of circular economy; definition of industrial symbiosis; presentation of case studies applied to Sicilian companies.Definition of environmental policy; Environmental Performance Indicators; DPSIR Index; Environemental Accountability; Green Public Procurement; Life Cycle Assessment analysis with international standard 14040, LCCA, the Eco-label; Environmental Accounts of Local Government, Environmental trademarks; DAP; Water foot print, Carbon Foot print; certifications in green building, LEED, FSC .
Textbook Information
1. Allenby, B. R., T. J. Gilmartin, and T. E. Graedel. "THE POLICY IMPLICATIONS OF INDUSTRIAL ECOLOGY." GLOBAL SECURITY AND INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY–Volume II (2010): 250.
2. Allenby, Braden. "8 Industrial Ecology and Environmental Design." Philosophy, Technology, and the Environment 2 (2017): 143.
3. Roberta Salomone - Maria Teresa Clasadonte - Maria Proto - Andrea Raggi (A cura di ), Product-Oriented Environmental Management Systems (POEMS),, Springer, 2013;
4. A. Marra, 2002, L’etica aziendale come motore di progresso e successo. Modelli di organizzazione, gestione e controllo: verso la responsabilità sociale delle imprese, Franco Angeli;
5.Socolow, Robert H. "Scale, Awareness and Conscience: The Moral Terrain of Ecological Vulnerability." New Dimensions in Bioethics. Springer US, 2001. 65-78.
6. Clasadonte M T, Giacchi L, Matarazzo A (2012). Indicatori di sostenibilità ambientale per il miglioramento dei servizi turisticio Indagine sulla città di Siracusa, Roma:ARACNE editrice S.r.l.;
7. CLASADONTE M, MATARAZZO A, SABBIA A, BRUNO B.V (2005). Linee guida di contabilità ambientale degli enti territoriali. Il Comune di Catania, CATANIA:Tipolito Gullotta;
8. Spirn, Anne Whiston. "Ecological Urbanism: A Framework for the Design of Resilient Cities (2014)." The Ecological Design and Planning Reader. Island Press/Center for Resource Economics, 2014. 557-571.
Course Planning
Subjects | Text References | |
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1 | definition of circular economy; definition of industrial symbiosis; presentation of case studies applied to Sicilian companies.Definition of environmental policy; | |
2 | Environmental Performance Indicators; DPSIR Index; Environemental Accountability; Green Public Procurement | |
3 | .Definition of environmental policy; Environmental Performance Indicators; DPSIR Index; Environemental Accountability; Green Public Procurement; Life Cycle Assessment analysis with international standard 14040, LCCA, the Eco-label; | |
4 | Environmental Accounts of Local Government, Environmental trademarks; DAP; Water foot print, Carbon Foot print; |