Production and Environment IV: Sustainability Indicators and Computational Simulation of Production Systems
Syllabus
Presentation of various families of indicators offering different advantages applicable to the analysis of territory, ecosystems, agricultural and cattle-raising production, cycle of residues, and natural bio-geochemical cycles of the planet. Carrying out computational simulations of production and disposal systems taking into consideration both theoretical and actual models.
Bibliography
Handbook: Sustainability Indicators. Siena: Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Chimiche e dei Biosostemi, 2002.
ODUM, H. T.; ODUM E. C. Modeling for all Scales. Florida: Academic Press, 2000.
Bibliografia complementar:
Artigos da literatura especializada, incluindo os periódicos Ecological Indicators, Ecological Engineering e Ecological Modeling.