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Module: Internal and External Costs and Benefits of Biobased Products (4101-420)

Note: Last updated September 2019. Current module catalog in HohCampus.

This module not offered anymore!

Persons:
Degree Program:
Prerequisites for Attendance:

See admission regulations for the Master Programme Bioeconomy. Knowledge of basic concepts in Economics as taught in the module “Economics and Management”. This module may be attended by other students in MSc programmes at Hohenheim in agreement with the responsible module coordinator.

Sprache:
English
ECTS:
6 credits
Frequency:
every summer semester
Length of the Module:
1 semester
Module examination:
Written exam
Workload:

160 h workload = 56 h presence + 104 h preparation at home + exam

Professional competences:

In the first part of the module students learn to evaluate internal and external costs and benefits of renewable resources for (new) biobased products and processes. Various methods of investment appraisal will be applied to optimise cultivation and harvest of permanent crops by means of adequate bioeconomic models. The second part of the module deals with methods of life-cycle assessment used to evaluate internal and external net benefits along the whole biobased product supply chain (incl. conversion and consumption).

Key competences:

Critical analytical thinking; communication and oral presentation.

Comments:

This module is compulsory for all students of the Bioeconomy Master programme.

Courses

Code Title Type Bindingness Course catalogue
4101-421 Resource Use Optimisation for Permanent Crops and Forests (since SS 2017 LV-Code 4101-431) lecture with exercise compulsory
4101-422 Life-Cycle Assessment (since SS 2017 4101-432 "Strategic Management in the Bioeconomy") lecture with exercise compulsory