Environmental System Analysis and Assessment

This lecture, taught by Dr. Aristide Athanassiadis and Dr. Jérôme Payet, focuses on environmental system analysis and assessment. It covers topics such as urban metabolism, circular economy, material flow analysis, and material stocks. The course provides guidelines for interactive participation, including webcam usage and asking questions. It also introduces students to the diverse backgrounds of the course participants. The lecture delves into global development overviews, including population growth, urbanization, life expectancy, poverty, human development index, energy consumption, renewable energy, water use, material extraction, and waste management. It emphasizes the importance of understanding system dynamics, causal loops, emergence, and the interlinking of social and material systems.