Environmental Impacts
Asignatura del Master of Science in Sustainability Management
Description
Any human activity has an impact on the environment. Knowing these impacts, and how ecosystems and the natural environment work, is essential to be able to anticipate or mitigate them. The course helps the student to place environmental phenomena in the context of ecosystems and in the natural environment. It provides the basic concepts to understand these phenomena (environment, ecosystem...) and to contextualize environmental impacts (by nature, extent, intensity ...). Likewise, the course will provide information on the physical mechanisms by which different environmental impacts are generated and sufficient information for the student to identify the environmental impacts associated with different types of activities and industrial sectors.
This subject forms part of the Master of Science in Sustainability Management, Follow the link for further information..
Alba Bala
Executive Director of the UNESCO Chair of Life Cycle and Climate Change | Director of the Master’s Degree in Sustainability Management ESCI-UPF
PhD in Environmental Sciences (UAB)
Currently, she is the Executive Director of the UNESCO Chair in Life Cycle and Climate Change at ESCI-UPF and the Director of the Master of Science in Sustainability Management, jointly offered by UPF-BSM and ESCI-UPF.
She teaches in the MSc in Sustainability Management and in the Postgraduate Programme in Management of Sustainable Transition and Climate Emergency offered by ESCI-UPF.
Previously, she was a lecturer and researcher in EcoDesign and Environmental Analysis of Products at the ELISAVA School of Design, the School of Industrial Design (ESDI), and the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA) at UAB. She has also worked as an environmental consultant.
Her research areas include Life Cycle Analysis (LCA), EcoDesign, Environmentally Correct Purchasing, and the development of methodologies for comprehensive sustainability analysis and assessment.
She is a member of the Spanish Network of Life Cycle Analysis.
She was a finalist for the 2008 European Innova Award, given by the European Commission, DG Enterprise and Industry. She won the Design for Recycling Award in the project category, granted by the Generalitat de Catalunya in 2000.