ECTS credits:
3 ECTS.
Course parameters:
Language: English.
Level of course: Graduate level (Master and PhD).
Time of year: 26-29 September 2023.
No. of contact hours/hours in total incl. preparation, assignment(s) or the like: Preparation 12h, lectures 11h, group assignments 7h, individual report writing 50h, report presentations 10h.
Capacity limits: 20 participants.
Course fee: 2100 DKK per participant
Objectives of the course:
The goal of the course is to give students a more profound and interdisciplinary understanding of the potential of carbon sequestration in land use to contribute to climate policy targets in a resource- and cost-efficient manner. The aim is to provide students with an understanding of alternative methods for analyzing environmental efficiency, and cost-effectiveness at different spatial and temporal scales. With successful completion of this course, students will have theoretical and empirical knowledge on methods for identifying environmental and cost-efficiency of alternative measures and policies for enhancement of carbon sinks.
Learning outcomes and competences:
At the end of the course, the student should be able to:
- Account for the factors that determine the carbon sequestration potential across space and time, related to forestry, agriculture, and biochar.
- Account for alternative methods for ex-ante and ex-post analysis of carbon sequestration.
- Account for the principle of cost-effectiveness and describe implications for carbon sequestration policies.
- Analyze carbon sequestration policy dilemmas from a welfare perspective.
- Describe and identify central interdisciplinary themes in carbon sequestration policy analysis
Compulsory programme:
The summer school will be a combination of lectures, and individual and group work. An individual independent project resulting in a written report, is included.
Course contents:
The course covers the following topics:
The potential of Land Use, Land-Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF) in the global and EU context.
Forestry and carbon sequestration: time dynamics and spatial scales.
Agriculture and carbon sequestration: time dynamics and spatial scales.
Cost-effectiveness of carbon sequestration: time dynamics and spatial scales.
Policy instruments for carbon sequestration.
Monitoring of carbon stocks and carbon sequestration: time dynamics and spatial scales.
Transaction costs of policies for carbon sequestration.
Introduction to independent work.
Prerequisites:
Master or PhD level.
Name of lecturers:
Professor Katarina Elofsson (Aarhus University), Senior Specialist Arezoo Taghizadeh-Toosi (the Danish Technological Institute), Associate Professor Niclas Scott Bentsen (Copenhagen University), Senior Researcher Thomas Nord-Larsen (Copenhagen University), Professor Uwe Schneider (Hamburg University).
Type of course/teaching methods:
4 days at Sandbjerg estate in southern Jutland, Denmark, including lectures and group work.
Individual project report with online supervision. Online presentation of individual work.
Literature:
The literature is based on the most recent and relevant scientific research articles, and is provided 1 month before the course starts.
Course homepage:
None.
Course assessment:
An individually written term paper on a topic related to the course content.
Provider:
Department of Environmental Science.
Special comments on this course:
None.
Time:
26-29 September 2023.
Place:
Sandbjerg estate, Southern Jutland, Denmark, and online.
Course fee:
Please note that there are a course fee on 2100 DKK for participating in this course.
Registration:
Deadline for registration is 10 June 2023. Information regarding admission will be sent out no later than 13 June 2023.
For registration: Please send an e-mail to Professor Katarina Elofsson, e-mail: katarina.elofsson@envs.au.dk
If you have any questions, please contact Professor Katarina Elofsson, e-mail: katarina.elofsson@envs.au.dk or PhD student Luiza Karpavicius, e-mail: luiza.karpavicius@envs.au.dk
