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分類：活動訊息

發佈：02 五 2019

July 15-16, 2019 
Organizers:

• Taiwan Association of Environmental and Resource Economics
• Institute of Economics, Academia Sinica
• Center for Global Change and Sustainability Science, National Taipei University
• College of Management, National Chiao Tung University
• School of Forestry and Resources Conservation, National Taiwan University
• Taiwan Association for Low Carbon Society an Economy

Venue: Institute of Economics, Academia Sinica, 128 Academia Road, Section 2, Nankang, Taipei, Taiwan

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATION: June 30, 2019

	Professor Jiří Jaromír Klemeš Co-Editor-in-Chief: Journal of Cleaner Production; Chemical Engineering Transactions Subject Editor: Energy - The International Journal Head of “Sustainable Process Integration Laboratory – SPIL”, NETME Centre, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Brno University of Technology - VUT Brno, Czech Republic
	Professor Petar Sabev Varbanov European Editor: Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy Subject Editor: Energy - The International Journal Deputy Head of “Sustainable Process Integration Laboratory – SPIL”, NETME Centre, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Brno University of Technology - VUT Brno, Czech Republic

Abstract

The course offers an overview of the modern metrics of environmental impact, called "Environmental Footprints," and the methods for their reduction and achieving sustainability. Environmental Footprint assessment tools are very useful for optimising the performance of industrial and business processes. Often they are also referred to as "Ecological Footprints."

The course has several major parts: 

Part 1. Introduction to environmental impacts and interactions, foundations of Circular Economy

This part introduces the topics, starting from a discussion of the main issues and problems of environmental pollution and depletion of natural resources from their natural storages. The emphasis is put on the need for circularity of the resource use and product/by-product reuse, and implementing the Circular Economy principles and strategy, to minimise resource extraction and waste discharge.
Definitions of sustainability and sustainable development are given. The Life Cycle thinking and the fundamentals of Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) are introduced, distinguishing between direct, indirect and total effects. The part includes the Environmental Performance Strategy Map – a concept that allows visualising and simultaneously optimising the environmental and economic performance indicators of human activities – an industrial site or other business activities.
The part concludes with the main principles and indicators important for measuring environmental impacts.

Part 2. Environmental Footprints – Introduction, definitions, implementation

This part introduces in more detail the key footprints, important for evaluating and altering the performance of industrial, business and societal systems in terms of environmental impacts and sustainability. The indicators include those for Greenhouse Gas (GHG), Water Footprint, Nitrogen Footprint, and others. The part concludes with presenting the possible measures and degrees of freedom to reduce footprints.
Within that context, the global energy and water flows are overviewed, including the flows of Virtual Water and Virtual GHG Footprints.

Part 3. Methods for Energy Saving and GHG and Haze Footprint Minimisation

This part starts by discussing case studies that provide examples of the benefits from concerted strategies for Energy Saving and further measures for GHG/Haze Footprint minimisation. The Process Integration principle is explained, clearly showing its coherence with the resource/waste hierarchy and the use of renewables as a footprint reduction tool. That is followed by the concepts, principles, and methods of Heat Integration and Pinch Analysis, for the simultaneous reduction of footprints and resource intake. The techniques include Data Extraction, Heat Recovery Targeting, Design of Heat Exchanger Networks, integration of energy-intensive processes, Total Site Heat Integration, Advanced Process Integration Techniques and energy storage methods, for improving the energy savings.

Part 4. Reduction of Water Footprint, Water-Energy-GHG Nexus

This part provides an introduction to Water Integration and nexus considerations. It starts with Data Extraction concerning water use, Water Network Design, discussion of water quality issues and implications, Water Pinch Analysis, water system analysis, Maximum Water Recovery Targets, design of Water Reuse Networks. Further techniques are discussed – the "Source/Sink Composite Curves" method for water targeting, the significance of the Water Pinch, Cost-Effective Minimum Water Networks – design and retrofit.
Further, the Water-Energy Nexus for industrial sites is considered, giving a case study for using the Nexus as a synergy mechanism for energy and water demand reduction.

Recommended literature

• Klemes, J. J. (Ed.). (2015). Assessing and measuring environmental impact and sustainability. Butterworth-Heinemann.
• Klemeš, J. J., Varbanov, P. S., Alwi, S. R. W., & Manan, Z. A. (2018). Sustainable Process Integration and Intensification: Saving Energy, Water and Resources. Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG.

Participation fee
The fee covers lecturer expenses, downloadable course material, morning and afternoon teas, and two lunches and one dinner included in the School programme. It does not cover accommodations.

• TAERE members: Free of charge (to become a member)
• Non-members: The participation fee is 100 USD (or 3,000 TWD) per person for non-members.

Course outline. Here

Summer School Program. Here

 Information on how to apply are available on the Summer School website.

Chinese website. Here

Summer School Secretariat: Email住址會使用灌水程式保護機制。你需要啟動Javascript才能觀看它

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分類：歷年研討會資料下載

發佈：17 十二月 2018

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分類：活動訊息

發佈：06 七月 2018

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分類：活動訊息

發佈：22 五 2018

Behavioral Environmental Economics　Summer School

行為環境經濟學　暑期課程

August 30-31, 2018 in Taipei, Taiwan

Organizers: 

Taiwan Association of Environmental and Resource Economics 

Institute of Economics, Academia Sinica 

Center for Global Change and Sustainability Science, National Taipei University

Institute of Nuclear Energy Research, Atomic Energy Council, Executive Yuan

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS: August 15, 2018 

The Taiwan Association of Environmental and Resource Economics (TAERE) and the Institute of Economics, Academia Sinica and the Center for Global Change and Sustainability Science, National Taipei University and Institute of Nuclear Energy Research, Atomic Energy Council, Executive Yuan are pleased to announce the first TAERE Summer School in Environmental and Resource Economics for students, researchers and professionals.

The School will take place from August 30 to 31 at the Institute of Economics, Academia Sinica in Taipei, Taiwan. The main theme covered by the 2018 Summer School is Behavioral Environmental Economics.

 Normative environmental analyses based on the efficiency and cost-benefit criterion at times implied unambiguous policy treatments of environmental problems. However, standard policy instruments such as the Pigovian tax recommended by the environmental and public economists were often unpopular. Aggressive policy actions against climate change also often met with a cold acceptance. Citizens’ assessment of the riskiness of many environmental issues also diverged from many “objective” risk measures for them. While some of these divergences could be explained by the disparity between the individual interest and the collective social interest, or by concerns about the potential re-distributional effects of some “efficient” policies, modern behavioral economics has found abundant evidence that individuals’ preferences may not be so narrowly defined as in the standard economic theory. And these findings about human nature could have profound implications on the design of environmental policies. The aim of TAERE 2018 Summer School is to provide participants with a comprehensive picture of behavioral economics applied to the environmental issues and the basic toolkit required to conduct relevant researches. Therefore, the topics of the 2018 Summer School include:

• Behavioral economics and the environmental issues: Overview of the current and potential role of behavioral findings in environmental economics and policy, with specific reference to the incompatibility between the predictions of the standard economic theory and observed behaviors (e.g., sunk cost fallacy, status quo bias, anchoring, fungibility and mental accounting).
• Reference dependent preferences: Environmental valuations and the empirical evidence of “nonstandard” preferences (e.g., reference dependent preferences like loss aversion and the observed disparities between valuations of gains and losses; disparities between the Willingness-to-Pay and the Willingness-to-Accept). Policy implications will be discussed.
• Intertemporal choice in the perspectives from the behavioral theories: Intertemporal preferences and discounting values of future outcomes (e.g., exponential and hyperbolic discounting; present bias and commitment devices; reference dependence and discounting of future gains and future losses).
• Fairness and social preferences: E.g., altruism, trust and reciprocity, and social norms; empirical findings and policy implications.
• “Where are we going?”: Potential role and limitations of behavioral findings and policy design; possible future priorities/directions for environmental behavioral economics.

The course will be presented in lectures supplemented by small group exercises on chosen topics.

INSTRUCTORS

Jack L. Knetsch,  Simon Fraser University, Canada 

Y. Eko Riyanto, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 

PARTICIPATION FEE

The fee covers lecturer expenses, downloadable course material, morning and afternoon teas, and two lunches and one dinner included in the School programme. It does not cover accommodations.

• TAERE members: Free of charge (to become a member)
• Non-members: The participation fee is 100 USD (or 3,000 TWD) per person for non-members. 

ADMISSION

The Summer School aims at graduate students, postdocs, academic and policy researchers, and professionals from all levels with an interest in behavioral economics and environmental economics.

Summer School Program. Here 

Reading list. Here

This summer school will issue a certificate of attendance to a registered participant who attends all courses.

Information on how to apply are available on the Summer School website.

Summer School Secretariat: Email住址會使用灌水程式保護機制。你需要啟動Javascript才能觀看它.

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分類：活動訊息

發佈：14 五 2018

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分類：活動訊息

發佈：30 四月 2018

 會議徵稿 Call for papers：2018年調查研究方法與應用學術研討會

會議主題：

抽樣設計、資料加權、資料隱私、調查誤差與資料品質、手機應用調查、意見探勘、調查方法研究、網絡調查研究、
大數據應用與傳統調查、分析方法與應用、其他調查研究相關議題

會議日期：2018年10月4日(四)～5日(五)

會議地點：中央研究院人文社會科學研究中心 第一會議室、第二會議室

主辦單位：中央研究院人文社會科學研究中心調查研究專題中心

摘要投稿期間：即日起至5月31日

投稿審查結果公告日期：2018年6月20日（電子郵件通知通訊作者）

報名期間：2018年8月1日～9月20日

議程公告日期：2018年7月20日

會議網站：由此處去