Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Life Cycle Assessment (LCA): Sustainability Principles (Part 1)
This online course provides a comprehensive introduction to Life Cycle Thinking and its significance in achieving environmental, social, and economic sustainability. The effectiveness of LCA methodologies in assessing and improving the sustainability credentials of products and practices in the agrifood sector are examined, and students have the opportunity to work with diverse evaluation tools. The course enables informed decision-making in creating and interpreting LCA reports.
4 weeks, 4 hours per week
Dr David Cutress
Lecturer in Livestock Science and Farming Connect Programme Manager
Aberystwyth University
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Identify the main reasons for using life cycle approaches, and the challenges associated with the evaluation of value chains.
- Solve which are the appropriate evaluation tools to the value chains they could be used to assess.
- Demonstrate the main reasons for taking a life cycle approach to evaluating a value chain.
- Compare the roles and strengths and weaknesses of different life cycle assessment tools.
Syllabus
Through a series of online lectures, guided reading and quizzes, students will explore the following topics:
- Value Chains, Circular Economies & Life Cycle Approaches to evaluation
- The uses and focus of different tools for evaluating value chains
- The main reasons for taking a life cycle approach to evaluating a value chain
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Issued on 13th March 2026
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