SUSTAINABILITY 1: SUSTAINABILITY

Academic year
2018/2019 Syllabus of previous years
Official course title
SUSTAINABILITY 1: SUSTAINABILITY
Course code
ECC020 (AF:294353 AR:162024)
Modality
ECTS credits
6
Degree level
Istituto d`eccellenza
Educational sector code
SPS/07
Period
Annual
Course year
1
Where
VENEZIA
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Main objective: to introduce and illustrate the modern methodological approaches that, since the 70s and 80s, have allowed to develop the scientific study of systems since then considered unmanageable, due to the complexity of their operation and evolution.
None.
1) Principles of Systems Thinking. The systems zoo.
2) Complex System. Non-linear systems. Cahos.
3) Self-organization. Critical states. Emergent properties. Catastrophies.
4) Embodied Energy. EMergy and sustainability.
Reference books and material will be provided by the lecturer
Based on exercises performed in group during the lectures as well as on homework assignments.
Lectures, working groups.
English
written and oral
Definitive programme.