LEARNING OUTCOMES
- Understand the concept and dimensions of sustainability
- Understand sustainability in
- raw material procurement
- production processes
- products and recycling
- Understand what are environmental management systems
Credits: 5
Schedule: 24.10.2022 - 08.12.2022
Teacher in charge (valid for whole curriculum period):
Teacher in charge (applies in this implementation): Roope Husgafvel
Contact information for the course (applies in this implementation):
CEFR level (valid for whole curriculum period):
Language of instruction and studies (applies in this implementation):
Teaching language: English. Languages of study attainment: English
CONTENT, ASSESSMENT AND WORKLOAD
Content
valid for whole curriculum period:
- The concept and dimensions of sustainability
- Environmental, economic, social and cultural issues
- How to measure sustainability?
- Global and regional examples
- Political perspectives
- Sustainability in Raw Material Sourcing (including Forest Certifications)
- Forest as an ecological resource (broad perspective) - Finland versus global
- Carbon balances and forest biodiversity
- Sustainable forest management and use
- Open felling vs. continuous cultivation
- Logistics - wood from forest to mills
- Secondary raw materials (demolition waste, impregnated products, waste paper and paper, etc.)
- Sustainability in production processes
- Biomass refining (mainly chemical pulping)
- Issues in production processes
- Internal functions and cycles
- External functions
- Waste water and its treatment
- Flue gases and other gaseous components and their treatment
- Solid by-product streams and waste management
- Safety, health and safety management
- Sustainability of the products
- Product design
- Characteristics of the products (biodegradability, safety, non-toxicity)
- Reuse of products
- Recycling of products and recycling of substances and materials derived from products
- Life cycle thinking and LCA calculation
- ISO 14.000 based standards and their review
- Product design
- Environmental management systems
- Management
- Standards and EMAS
- Implementing environmental policy in the organization
- The principle of continuous improvement
- Quality systems
- Stakeholders
- The concept and dimensions of sustainability
Assessment Methods and Criteria
valid for whole curriculum period:
- Lessons (10 - 15 x 2h), discourse
- LCA exercise and reporting
- Examination
- Guest speakers specially on corporate social responsibility and reporting, permitting, environmental impacts and environmental strategy
Workload
valid for whole curriculum period:
- Lectures 20 - 30 h, lecture preparation,
- Independent study and exam preparation 60 h,
- LCA exercise 10 - 20 h,
- Report/presentation, 35 h
- Total 135 (5 cr)
DETAILS
Substitutes for Courses
valid for whole curriculum period:
Prerequisites
valid for whole curriculum period:
SDG: Sustainable Development Goals
4 Quality Education
7 Affordable and Clean Energy
9 Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
12 Responsible Production and Consumption
13 Climate Action
17 Partnerships for the Goals
FURTHER INFORMATION
Further Information
valid for whole curriculum period:
Teaching Language : English
Teaching Period : 2022-2023 Autumn II
2023-2024 Autumn IIEnrollment :
Only for Biomass Refining and students with same knowledge or background (will be evaluated individually)
Maximum amount of students are 20 due to LCA excercise. However, if more than 20 student enroll in time, all Biomass Refining major students are accepted.
A course implementation may be cancelled if the number of students enrolled to the course implementation does not meet the required minimum of five students. In the case of cancelled course implementations, the students enrolled to them must be provided with an alternative way of completing the course or be advised to take some other applicable course.