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The main goal of the course is to
introduce you to the fundamentals of quantitative impact assessment methods and
models. These quantitative models are specifically designed to assess the
prospective environmental and economic impacts resulting from the application
of technological or policy interventions at meso- and macro-scale,
comprehensively including supply-chain effects in a Life Cycle perspective.
Basic principles of systems
modelling, quantitative impact assessment and industrial ecology are introduced
and discussed also based on real life examples and/or case studies. The
mathematical background of impact assessment models are then discussed,
focusing on Leontief’s Input-Output framework. Such framework allows to
describe national energy, environmental and economic accountability, mapping
the structure of national supply chains, hence it is usually adopted as
underlying database for impact assessment models.
Once the theoretical background is provided, the
course becomes more practical and will teach you how to handle input-output
tables and how to use them to quantitatively measure the impact of given
national policies, to calculate products and processes environmental
footprints, and to introduce new supply-chains using MARIO, an open-source
Python library born to make it easy to handle large databases and to build
complex Input-Output models and analyses.
This is the March 2024 presentation of the course
This course is part of a collection
This course is part of a collection of courses called Climate Compatible Growth March 2024 courses. There are 16 courses in this collection so you may find other courses here that maybe of interest to you.
Knowledge and understanding. You will learn basic concepts of Impact assessment methods, Life Cycle Assessment and Input-Output modelling. You will understand how physical and monetary flows of goods and services are produced and consumed within a generic productive system, and how they are accounted in standard accounting frameworks.
Applying knowledge and understanding. You will be able to setup an Input-Output model from scratch to perform quantitative analyses of shocks using MARIO. You will be able to properly model a policy intervention, a structural technological change or a new supply-chain within an economic system.
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This course is made available under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0: Climate Compatible Growth consortium
Any third-party materials featured in this course are used with permission and are not ours to give away. These materials are not subject to the Creative Commons licence. See the
terms and conditions and our FAQs. Please see the course acknowledgements for further information about copyright details.
For further information, take a look at our frequently asked questions which may give you the support you need.
