New Edition of ICTA-UAB LIPHE4 Summer School in Geneva
The research group LIPHE4 from the Institut of Environmental Science and Technology of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ICTA-UAB) will organize from 2nd to 6th July in Geneva (Switzerland) a new edition of its Summer School.
The course is organized in collaboration with the ENVIROSPACE Lab of the University of Geneva.
Under the title “Can Cities Be Sustainable? Novel Tools to Explore Urban Metabolism” the 2018 Summer School LIPHE 4 aims to familiarize the participants with the theory and applications of Multi-scale Integrated Assessment of Society and Ecosystem Metabolism (MuSIASEM).
In this specific 2018 edition, organizers will illustrate the use of MuSIASEM to carry out relational analysis of the metabolic pattern of social-ecological systems across different dimensions and scales of analysis. To this purpose, they will address issues such as multi-scale integrated analysis of societal and ecosystem metabolism (MuSIASEM): accounting of water, energy, food and waste flows in relation to land uses and human activity; the construction of a multi-level end-use matrix to characterize an urban metabolic pattern; the relational analysis (resource nexus approach) applied to the metabolic pattern of urban systems; and the role of externalization in sustaining the metabolism of urban systems.
The summer school is organized by LIPHE4 in collaboration with the ENVIROSPACE Lab of the University of Geneva and the ICTA-UAB. The format of the summer school consists in seminars alternated with hands-on working groups focused on selected cities, among which Geneva and Barcelona.
Course Format and participants
The course is aimed at advanced students, researchers, and experienced practitioners. The LIPHE4 Summer School is a reference point for those who are eager to learn about innovative approaches in the field of Sustainability Studies. The school offers a critical picture, both theoretical and practical, of recently developed analytical approaches towards sustainable development.
It shows how to integrate quantitative methodologies that analyze and characterize complex systems and their evolution with qualitative methodologies that help structure the decision process in a social context. With these purposes in mind, both lectures and hands-on case studies form an integral part of the program.
Further details on the course: http://www.liphe4.org/en/home?id=111