MODULE 1. ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY

1. UNIT 1. THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEM
2. The environmental problem
3. The most direct consequences on the environment
4. The evolution of energy consumption
5. World energy reserves
7. UNIT 2. URBAN WASTE
8. Solid waste
9. Municipal solid waste
10. Household waste
12. UNIT 3. INDUSTRIAL WASTE
13. Agricultural waste
14. Livestock waste
15. Industrial waste
16. Radioactive waste
18. UNIT 4. WASTE TREATMENT
19. Time evolution
20. Management characteristics
21. Treatment types
23. UNIT 5. CHARACTERIZATION OF CONTAMINATED SOILS
24. Investigation phases
25. Preliminary investigation
26. Exploratory investigation
27. Preliminary risk analysis and assessment
28. Pre-quantification of the associated risk. Application of simplified models for risk analysis
29. Report writing
31. UNIT 6. SOIL RECOVERY TECHNIQUES
32. Containment Techniques
33. Containment Techniques
34. Confinement Techniques
35. Decontamination Techniques
37. UNIT 7. CONTAMINATION OF AQUATIC MEDIA
38. Wastewater characteristics
39. Organic matter
40. Pathogenic organisms
42. UNIT DIDACTIC 8. WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEMS
43. Importance, characteristics and functions of wastewater treatment plants
44. Collector and pretreatment networks
45. Primary treatment
46. Secondary treatment
48. UNIT DIDACTIC 9. RENEWABLE AND NON-renewable ENERGIES
49. Primary and final energies
50. Energy vectors
51. Renewable and non-renewable sources
52. Classification of renewable energies
54. UNIT 10. ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION
55. Fundamentals of Environmental Education
56. Main Agents of Environmental Education
57. Environment and Economic Development
58. Practices and Techniques for Environmental Education

MODULE 2. SUSTAINABILITY INDICATORS: LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS, CARBON FOOTPRINT, HYDROFLOOR FOOTPRINT AND ECOETHYCLING

1. UNIT 1. LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS
2. Context of Life Cycle Analysis
3. Approaches to Life Cycle Analysis
4. Examples of LCA applications
5. Standardization of LCA according to ISO 5. Life Cycle Analysis Methodology
6. Objective and scope of study
7. Life Cycle Inventory Analysis (LCIIA)
8. Databases, tools and software for LCA
9. Production Cycle
10. Example of Life Cycle Inventory Analysis
11. Life Cycle Impact Assessment (LCIA) and impact categories
12. Example of Impact Assessment: classification, characterization and standardization
13. Interpretation of results and critical review
14. Verification of results
15. Current limitations in the use of LCA
17. UNIT DIDACTIC 2. CARBON FOOTPRINT: CALCULATION AND ASSESSMENT
18. Carbon Footprint and GHG Greenhouse Gas Emissions
19. Scope of Carbon Footprint and methods for calculation
20. Greenhouse Gas Emissions, scope and methodology
21. Calculation and assessment focused on Organizations
22. Calculation of emissions by scope
23. Carbon Footprint Report
24. Calculation and evaluation focused on products
25. Calculation of the Carbon Footprint of a product
26. Methods of Environmental Management of the Carbon Footprint: Reduction and compensation
27. Benefits of the Carbon Footprint for companies
29. UNIT DIDACTIC 3. WATER FOOTPRINT. CALCULATION AND EVALUATION
30. Current situation of water resources
31. Introduction and objectives of the water footprint
32. Phases and scope of application of the water footprint
33. Water types, concepts and calculation
34. Water footprint applied to sectors and its calculation
35. Water footprint applied to nations or communities
36. Water footprint applied to products. Examples
37. Consumer water footprint
38. Corporate water footprint
39. Environmental management of the water footprint