CIRCULAR ECONOMY E STRUMENTI DI MANAGEMENT AMBIENTALE

Academic Year 2023/2024 - Teacher: AGATA MATARAZZO

Expected Learning Outcomes

The framework of the course, designed in collaboration with teachers of other subjects in the area, aims at the acquisition of theoretical principles concerning voluntary certification management models which can be adopted by local companies, regardless of their size or production process. In particular, first of all the different types of environmental impact that a process can have in different sectors are analyzed, including water, air, and soil. Then the different instruments that companies can use to be able to minimize other impacts which exist throughout the supply chain, instruments of an economic, binding, and voluntary nature are presented.
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

the student is put in a position to relate and transfer to third parties, even non-specialists, information, analysis, judgments, projects and operational proposals regarding environmental issues, business and management with clarity, precision and mastery of expression and appropriate technical language, which the main working activities will lead them to face, also knowing how to explain their reasoning and assumptions

Attendance of Lessons

The teacher constantly checks, topic by topic, whether the acquisition of knowledge takes place effectively, reviewing possibly also in progress the method of teaching, in order to better adapt it to the practical achievement of this important objective, taking into account the actual composition of the classroom . In this context, testing of profit by an exam is a natural, logical corollary of the learning process, which is constantly monitored and improved, partly to prevent a traumatic approach to the examination test

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
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;

Learning Assessment

Learning Assessment Procedures

the oral exam with at least three questions on each module; the content focuses on all the topics covered in the classroom for attending students, including company visits and testimonials from entrepreneurs, and on all the topics covered in the three modules for non-attending students

Examples of frequently asked questions and / or exercises

ISO 14001, SOX; COD; waste management systems life cycle assessment, iso 14001, emas, ecolabel, circular economy, industrial sismbiosys

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Direzione Aziendale