Advanced Life Cycle Assessment in Water-Energy-Food Systems

3 Credits

Introduction and application of life cycle assessment (LCA) to evaluate the environmental impacts of various products, processes, or services related to the water-energy-food nexus. Additional topics include planetary boundaries, systems thinking, circular economy, mass and energy balances, life-cycle costing, social LCA and sensitivity and uncertainty analysis. This is an interdisciplinary course open to students from any major.