2021 International Summer Workshop:

　　Training Course on Environmental Ecological System Engineering

　　2021暑期工作坊：环境生态系统工程国际课程与培训

　　July 5-9, 2021

　　Online Course via Zoom/VOOV + Offline Course

　　School of Environment, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China

　　

　　

　　

　　International faculty members国际教师团队：

　　

　　

　　

　　

　　

　　课程安排 Course Plan：

　　The course will be arranged as MOOC + Offline course + Online Course

	Monday 　　July 5	Tuesday 　　July 6	Wednesday 　　July 7	Thursday 　　July 8	Friday 　　July 9
9:00-14:00	Watch MOOC	Watch MOOC	Watch MOOC	Watch MOOC	Watch MOOC
14:00-16:30	Special Topic Course 1 　　Gengyuan Liu	Special Topic Course 2 　　Gang Liu	Special Topic Course 3 　　Gang Liu	Special Topic Course 4 　　Ming Xu	Special Topic Course 5 　　Ming Xu
17:30-19:00	Online Course A 　　Sergio Ulgiati	Online Course C 　　Sergio Ulgiati	Online Course E 　　Sergio Ulgiati	Online Course G 　　Francesco Gonella	Online Course I 　　Francesco Gonella
19:00-20:30	Online Course B 　　Mark Brown	Online Course D 　　Mark Brown	Online Course F 　　Mark Brown	Online Course H 　　Mark Brown	Online Course J 　　Mark/Sergio 　　Issuing of course certificates

　　Note: 1. Students will watch the online MOOC course in the morning and learn the basic knowledge of Environmental Accounting and Management.

　　2. Online course will be divided into two classes due to the time difference. 17:30-19:00 in China Time Zone will be 11:30-13:00 in Roma Time Zone. 19:00-20:30 in China Time Zone will be 7:00-8:30 in NY Time Zone.

　　3. The course will issue the course certificate after finishing. The certificate is authorized by the International Society of Advancement Emergy Research, etc. All the participates will be invited as the member of ISAER to join the following academic activities.

　　4. All the BNU students will win 2 credits after the course. Please send your personal information and student ID to Prof. Gengyuan Liu (liugengyuan@bnu.edu.cn)

　　

　　在线课程信息Online Course Information

　　Online Course A (by Prof. Sergio Ulgiati):

• 　　quick definition of “value”: money, energy, emergy, just as a start (15 minutes maximum)

• 　　practical examples of emergy evaluations to understand values and support choices (e.g. trade, agriculture, energy, recycling, water);

　　

　　Online Course B (by Prof. Mark Brown):

• 　　Discussion of systems thinking, Why think systemically? Drawing diagrams.

• 　　Discussion of emergy principles and concepts and how they relate to everyday life. Examples of laws of thermodynamics, maximum power, hierarchy, Maximum Power Principle

• 　　Calculation of renewable emergy sources from the Geosphere Emergy Baseline

　　

　　Online Course C (by Prof. Sergio Ulgiati):

• 　　quick description of LCA and its use for calculation of UEVs. Examples: UEVs of chemicals used in agriculture.

• 　　paper making and recycling. Integrated use of LCA and Emergy for high quality paper making and assessment.

• 　　Emergy for Circular Economy policy–making

• 　　urban waste management and wastewater, and waste management policies

　　

　　Online Course D (by Prof. Mark Brown):

• 　　Discussion of Emergy Algebra, Issue of double counting. Static and dynamic emergy accounting.

• 　　Example emergy accounting table: Static accounting

• 　　Example of dynamic accounting: EXCEL solver

　　

　　Online Course E (by Prof. Sergio Ulgiati):

• 　　transportation patterns (cars, buses, trains and high speed trains, flights) and mobility policies

• 　　electricity generation from different sources

• 　　Emergy assessment of rural and urban environment

• 　　Emergy evaluation of electronic waste recovery: costs and benefits

　　

　　Online Course F (by Prof. Mark Brown):

• 　　Discussion of the relations between emergy, economy, and money

• 　　Using the NEAD

• 　　Discussion of the relations between emergy and urban systems

　　

　　Online Course G (by Prof. Francesco Gonella)

• 　　Emergy accounting of a bioelectricity production site.

• 　　Agriculture-breeding-conversion: the role of subsystems in the emergy systemic description.

　　

　　Online Course H (by Prof. Mark Brown):

• 　　Discussion of the concept of “ecosystem”… the difference between natural capital and ecosystem services. Why is limiting factors principle so important? Species and information

• 　　Computing and graphing emergy signature of estuarine system

• 　　Emergy evaluation of estuarine impacts and losses

　　

　　Online Course I (by Prof. Francesco Gonella):

• 　　Sustainability assessment of bioelectricity production through emergy indicators.

• 　　How different scales and boundaries address different narratives for the system sustainability.

• 　　Online Course J (by Prof. Mark Brown):

• 　　Discussion of concept of environmental impact…assessing environmental impacts

• 　　Discussion of emergy evaluation of alternatives. Computing Net Emergy

• 　　Simulation modelling: examples using EXCEL

　　

　　特别邀请课程信息Special Topic Course Information

　　Special Topic Course 1 (by Prof. Gengyuan Liu)

　　

　　Special Topic Course 2 (by Prof. Gang Liu)

• 　　On economy-wide material flow analysis

　　√ Basic concepts and methodology introduction

　　√ Applications and exercise

　　

　　Special Topic Course 3 (by Prof. Gang Liu)

• 　　On substance flow analysis and dynamic material flow analysis

　　√ Indicator element and substance flow analysis

　　√ Introduction to STAN software

　　√ Dynamic material flow analysis: Basic introduction and examples of uses

　　

　　Special Topic Course 4 (by Prof. Ming Xu)

• 　　Introduce the concept of environmental footprints, followed by national accounting systems to develop the basic input-output (IO) analysis framework.

　　

　　Special Topic Course 5 (by Prof. Ming Xu)

• 　　IO techniques to measure various types of environmental footprints of consumption at the sector, national, and international scales.

　　

　　MOOC课程信息MOOC course information：

　　https://www.xuetangx.com/course/BNU08251001095/1104919?channel=search_result

　　详细信息见附件（附件）

　　课程注册信息Registration Information:

　　If you are interested, please send your person information to Prof. Gengyuan Liu’s email address (liugengyuan@bnu.edu.cn).

　　The course will be free for BNU students. Students from other Universities/institutes need to be paid (500 RMB for 5 days course). Payment information will be sent by email.

　　

　　

　　课程支持单位Supporting Information:

• 　　School of Environment, Beijing Normal University

• 　　Multi-scale Ecological Simulation and Environmental Security Regulation Technological Innovation Base

• 　　State Key Joint Laboratory of Environment Simulation and Pollution Control

• 　　Beijing Engineering Research Center for Watershed Environmental Restoration & Integrated Ecological Regulation

• 　　International Society for Advancement Emergy Research

　　

　　

　　

　　

• MOOC附件.docx